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