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# Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis is a seaside town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.

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## Every way there

- Bristol → Lyme Regis 84 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-lyme-regis) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Lyme+Regis)
- Cardiff → Lyme Regis 86 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £15–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-lyme-regis) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Lyme+Regis)
- London → Lyme Regis 214 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £22–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-lyme-regis) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Lyme+Regis)

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The field note

What is in and around Lyme Regis, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Lyme Regis has

- Y Scheduled flights Bristol (BRS), 75 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries ferry terminal, 22 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

50.725°, -2.935°

Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site and heritage coast. 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, partly shot in the town.

Get in

## Getting to Lyme Regis

1. Axminster The nearest train station is Axminster which is about 5.5 mi (8.9 km) north of Lyme Regis.

See

## Worth seeing

1. The Cobb
2. The Town Mill A fully working watermill, restored and re-opened in 2001; tours available.
3. Lyme Regis Museum Bridge Street, DT7 3QA, info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk.
4. Dinosaurland Fossil Museum Coombe Street, DT7 3PY, steve@dinosaurland.co.uk.

Do

## Things to do

Fossil hunting. In front of the cliffs by the beach. There are lots of fossilised ammonites in the sediment layers in the cliffs, and as weathering occurs, the cliffs are eroded and the fossils are left on the beach. The best time to go hunting is in Spring, when the winter's storms have exposed many fossils.

1. Marine Theatre Church St, DT7 3QA, info@marinetheatre.com.

Eat

## Where to eat

Local seafood specialities include Lyme Bay crab, which is available at any fishmonger in the wider region, and is on the menu at several local restaurants as a starter or the centrepiece of a crab salad.

1. Tierra Kitchen 1a Coombe Street, DT7 3PY, info@tierrakitchen.co.uk.
2. Town Mill Bakery Coombe Street, DT7 3PY, feedme@townmillbakery.co.uk.
3. Italia There are also a few fish and chip shops, and a wide choice of pubs serving food.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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