Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis from the Cobb
Population	4,406 [1]
OS grid reference	SY337922
• London	130 Miles (209 Km)
District	West Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
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Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, England, 25 miles west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border. It is nicknamed 'The Pearl of Dorset'.

The town is noted for the fossils found in the cliffs and beaches, which are part of the Jurassic Coast–a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall, "The Cobb", features in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, and in the movie and novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by local writer John Fowles.

When people were counted in the town's most recent census in 2001, the population was 4,406. 45% of the town's population were retired people.^[2]

1. ↑ Census 2001
2. ↑ Office for National Statistics, 2001. Census data Archived 2006-01-03 at the Wayback Machine.