Lyme Regis is a community in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 kilometres) west of Dorchester and also 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it exists at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coastline at the Dorset-- Devon boundary. It is kept in mind for fossils found in cliffs and also coastlines on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall-- known as "The Cobb"-- appears in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, as well as the 1981 movie of that name, which was partly shot in the community. A previous mayor as well as MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who established the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, now Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis likewise signed up with Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historical Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census offered the parish and also selecting ward a population of 3,671.