Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 kilometres) east of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it lies at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coastline at the Dorset-- Devon boundary. It is noted for fossils located in high cliffs and also coastlines on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall-- referred to 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 fired in the town. A previous mayor as well as MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who established the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, currently Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis additionally joined Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census provided the church as well as electoral ward a population of 3,671.