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  2. Lyme Regis - Wikipedia

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    Lyme Regis. Lyme Regis (/ ˌlaɪm ˈriːdʒɪs / LYME REE-jiss) is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", [3] 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 ...

  3. Siege of Lyme Regis - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Lyme Regis was an eight-week blockade during the First English Civil War. The port of Lyme Regis, in Dorset, was considered to be of strategic importance because of its position along the main shipping route between Bristol and the English Channel. Thomas Ceeley and Robert Blake commanded the town's Parliamentarian defences during ...

  4. File:Lyme Regis, Coombe Street façades - geograph.org.uk ...

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    English: Lyme Regis: Coombe Street façades Looking northwest along Coombe Street, as its handsome frontages catch the sun on this very summery September lunchtime. The building in the distance houses the Dinosaurland museum, one of many fossil-related outlets in the town.

  5. Lyme Regis Guildhall - Wikipedia

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    Designated. 23 April 1952. Reference no. 1228691. Shown in Dorset. 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. [1]

  6. File : Lyme Regis, including the fossil shop, c. 1844.jpg

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    Description: Broad Street, Lyme Regis, 1843–1844, showing Mary Anning's fossil shop, the third building from the right, on the corner: the thin three-story house with the single attic window. This is an image of the fossil shop, known an Anning's Fossil Depot, while she still owned it. Other images identify it as Bridge Street. Source

  7. Lyme Regis Museum - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] It is built on the site of the former home of the palaeontologist Mary Anning, [2] which existed until 1826. The museum building was commissioned in 1901 by Thomas Philpot, a relative of the ...

  8. George Roberts (antiquary) - Wikipedia

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    Roberts was born at Lyme Regis in Dorset, where he was mainly educated. He then kept a grammar school there in Broad Street, Henry Parry Liddon being one of his pupils. [1] Roberts acted as mayor of Lyme Regis in 1848–9 and 1854–5. From a young age he devoted himself to the history of the place and studied its archives.

  9. Lyme Bay - Wikipedia

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    Lyme Bay. Coordinates: 50°42′N 2°54′W. Lyme Bay shown within Great Britain. 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. The exact definitions of the bay vary. The eastern boundary is usually taken to be Portland Bill on the Isle of Portland ...