Lyme Regis & Around Through Time

Lyme Regis is Dorset’s most westerly town, lying hard by the Devon border. It is famous as one of the main attractions of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and also has important literary connections with Jane Austen and is the setting for John Fowles’ novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman.Historically, Lyme Regis was a port and fishing town, and its centre extends up a steep hill from the coa...