Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester as well as 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it exists at Lyme Bay on the English Channel shore at the Dorset-- Devon border. It is kept in mind for fossils located in high cliffs and beaches 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, and also the 1981 film of that name, which was partly shot in the community. A former mayor as well as MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who started the English colonial negotiation of Somers Isles, currently Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis additionally signed up with Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historical Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census offered the parish and also electoral ward a population of 3,671.