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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Location of Dinosaurland Fossil Museum in Dorset. Ichthyosaurus fossil exhibit. Exhibit of Segnosaurus nest with eggs. Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. [2] [3] [4] The museum is located in a historic Grade I listed former congregational ...
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 ...
The Lyme Regis branch line was a railway branch line connecting the seaside town of Lyme Regis with the main line railway network at Axminster, running through picturesque rural countryside on the Dorset - Devon border. It opened in 1903; penetrating difficult topography, the line was very steeply graded and sharply curved; on summer weekends ...
The King spent the next few days at Trent House while Wyndham and Wilmot attempted to find a ship from Lyme Regis or Weymouth. Wyndham contacted Captain Ellesdon, a friend in Lyme Regis, one of whose tenants, Stephen Limbry, was sailing from Charmouth to Saint-Malo the following week. Charles and Wilmot, it was decided, could board the vessel ...
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.