Lyme Regis is a community in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 kilometres) west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it exists at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-- Devon border. It is noted for fossils found in cliffs and also beaches on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall-- referred to as "The Cobb"-- shows up in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, and also the 1981 film of that name, which was partly fired in the community. A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, that started the English colonial negotiation 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 church and also electoral ward a population of 3,671.