--- title: "Lyme Bay – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Lyme Bay, United Kingdom: Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel off the south coast of England. Nearby: Dinosaurland Fossil Museum, Mary Anning, Lyme…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lyme-bay" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lyme-bay.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/MRF-D_24_3_Marines_conduct_MV-22B_Osprey_carrier_qualifications_aboard_British_RFA_Lyme_Bay_%288530462%29.jpg/1920px-MRF-D_24_3_Marines_conduct_MV-22B_Osprey_carrier_qualifications_aboard_British_RFA_Lyme_Bay_%288530462%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Area of the English Channel · United Kingdom # Lyme Bay Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel off the south coast of England. ![Lyme Bay](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/MRF-D_24_3_Marines_conduct_MV-22B_Osprey_carrier_qualifications_aboard_British_RFA_Lyme_Bay_%288530462%29.jpg/1920px-MRF-D_24_3_Marines_conduct_MV-22B_Osprey_carrier_qualifications_aboard_British_RFA_Lyme_Bay_%288530462%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Lyme Bay · U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt The place Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel off the south coast of England. The south western counties of Devon and Dorset front onto the bay. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Bay), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Lyme Bay 6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Dinosaurland Fossil Museum Dinosaurland Fossil Museum is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. 3.8 km · Fossil museum in Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurland_Fossil_Museum) 2. Mary Anning The Statue of Mary Anning is a bronze sculpture of the paleontologist Mary Anning in Lyme Regis. 3.5 km · statue in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Mary_Anning) 3. Lyme Regis Museum Lyme Regis Philpot Museum is situated in the town of Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. It is a registered charity under English law. 3.6 km · museum in Dorset, England, United Kingdom · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis_Museum) 4. The Guildhall Lyme Regis Guildhall is a municipal building in Bridge Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. The building, which serves as the meeting place of Lyme Regis Town Council, is a Grade II\* listed building. 3.6 km · building in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis_Guildhall) 5. Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is based in the upstairs floor of a long-disused cement factory on the foreshore of Charmouth in Dorset, England. The centre operates as an independent registered charity within the larger framework of the UNESCO Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, known as the "Jurassic Coast". 3.7 km · heritage centre in Dorset, England, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmouth_Heritage_Coast_Centre) 6. Belmont, Lyme Regis Belmont is a Grade II\* listed country house near Lyme Regis, South West England. In the early nineteenth century it was owned by the businesswoman Eleanor Coade, famed for supplying the artificial stone known as Coade stone. 3.9 km · country house in England · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont,_Lyme_Regis) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Lyme Bay **Airports:** Bristol (BRS), 77 km · Cardiff (CWL), 83 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 191 km\ - Bristol → Lyme Bay 377 km · quickest by road, 6h 38m · $37–50 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-lyme-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Lyme+Bay) - Cardiff → Lyme Bay 5287 km · quickest by air, 19h 13m · £510–830 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-lyme-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Lyme+Bay) - London → Lyme Bay 5482 km · quickest by air, 14h 9m · £430–690 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-lyme-bay) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Lyme+Bay) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Lyme%20Bay) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Lyme Bay Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lyme Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 112 km 2. [Lundy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lundy) GB 7 ways of moving, 11 sources 135 km 3. [Inis Mór (Inishmore)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inis-mor) IE 8 ways of moving, 21 sources 540 km 4. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 562 km 5. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 598 km If you know how people move in Lyme Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Clyme-bay&title=Lyme+Bay&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Flyme-bay), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Lyme Bay - [Lyme Regis](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lyme-regis) town and civil parish in Dorset, England 3.7 km - [Charmouth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/charmouth) village in Dorset, England, UK 3.7 km [The place page for Lyme Bay](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/lyme-bay) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lyme-bay, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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