Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a community in West Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 kilometres) west of Dorchester and also 25 miles (40 kilometres) eastern of Exeter. Styled "The Pearl of Dorset", it exists at Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-- Devon border. It is noted for fossils discovered in cliffs and coastlines on the Heritage Coast or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall-- referred to 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 community. A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, that 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 signed up with Jamestown, Virginia, in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census provided the parish as well as selecting ward a population of 3,671.