Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a community in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) 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 shore at the Dorset-- Devon border. It is noted for fossils discovered 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, and the 1981 film of that name, which was partly fired in the town. A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, that founded 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 Historical Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census gave the church as well as selecting ward a population of 3,671.