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Lyme Regis

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Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. [1]

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  1. 177 relations: A. S. Byatt, Abraham Hayward, Aisle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alice Roberts, All Over the Town, Alresford railway station (Hampshire), Ammonite (film), Ammonoidea, Aphrodita, Armour (zoology), Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs, Banksy, Bartholomew Westley, Battle of Trafalgar, BBC Radio Solent, BBC South West, Beeching cuts, Bermuda, Bermuda sloop, Blenniiformes, Blue Lias, Bluebell Railway, Booker Prize, British Army, Cavalier, Chancel, Charitable organization, Charmouth, Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Coade stone, Coastal erosion, Coat of arms, Conger cuddling, Cretaceous, Dapedium, Deep Purple, Devon, Devon and Exeter Football League, Dimorphodon, Dinosaur, Dinosaurland Fossil Museum, Domesday Book, Dorchester, Dorset, Dorset, Dorset (district), Dorset Council (UK), Dorset County Council, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Early Jurassic, ... Expand index (127 more) »

  2. Beaches of Dorset
  3. Geology of Dorset
  4. Populated coastal places in Dorset
  5. Towns in Dorset

A. S. Byatt

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A.S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer.

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Abraham Hayward

Abraham Hayward Q.C. (22 November 1801 – 2 February 1884) was an English writer and translator.

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Aisle

An aisle is a linear space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.

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Alice Roberts

Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English academic, TV presenter and author.

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All Over the Town

All Over the Town is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Derek N. Twist and starring Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill and Cyril Cusack.

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Alresford railway station (Hampshire)

Alresford railway station is a railway station serving New Alresford, Winchester, Hampshire, England.

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Ammonite (film)

Ammonite is a 2020 romantic drama film written and directed by Francis Lee.

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Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.

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Aphrodita

Aphrodita is a genus of marine polychaete worms found in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Armour (zoology)

Armour or armor in animals is a rigid cuticle or exoskeleton that provides exterior protection against attack by predators, formed as part of the body (rather than the behavioural utilization of external objects for protection) usually through the thickening and hardening of superficial tissues, outgrowths or skin secretions.

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Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs

The Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs, also often referred to in the singular as the Undercliff, is a long landscape feature, National Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest that connects Seaton and Axmouth with Lyme Regis on the south-west coast of England. Lyme Regis and Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs are geology of Dorset.

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Banksy

Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation.

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Bartholomew Westley

Rev.

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Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).

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BBC Radio Solent

BBC Radio Solent is the BBC's local radio station serving Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight, broadcasting on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on Havelock Road in Southampton.

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BBC South West

BBC South West is the BBC English Region serving Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, West Somerset, West Dorset and Channel Islands.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Bermuda sloop

The Bermuda sloop is a historical type of fore-and-aft rigged single-masted sailing vessel developed on the islands of Bermuda in the 17th century.

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Blenniiformes

Blenny (from the Greek ἡ βλέννα and τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour.

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Blue Lias

The Blue Lias is a geological formation in southern, eastern and western England and parts of South Wales, part of the Lias Group.

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Bluebell Railway

The Bluebell Railway is an heritage line in West Sussex in England.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Cavalier

The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Charmouth

Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England. Lyme Regis and Charmouth are beaches of Dorset, Jurassic Coast and Populated coastal places in Dorset.

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Charmouth Mudstone Formation

The Charmouth Mudstone Formation is a geological formation in England, dating to the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Pliensbachian).

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Coade stone

Coade stone or Lithodipyra or Lithodipra is stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Conger cuddling

Conger cuddling is a traditional event in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, in which a dead conger eel is thrown at members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Dapedium

Dapedium (from δαπέδων, 'pavement') is an extinct genus of primitive neopterygian ray-finned fish.

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Deep Purple

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Devon and Exeter Football League

The Devon and Exeter Football League is a football competition based in Devon in England.

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Dimorphodon

Dimorphodon was a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from Europe during the early Jurassic Period (about 201-191 million years ago).

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England. Lyme Regis and Dinosaurland Fossil Museum are Jurassic Coast.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Dorchester, Dorset

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England. Lyme Regis and Dorchester, Dorset are towns in Dorset.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Dorset (district)

Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.

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Dorset Council (UK)

Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England.

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Dorset County Council

Dorset County Council (DCC) was the county council for the county of Dorset in England.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Early Jurassic

The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period.

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East Devon Way

The East Devon Way is a long-distance footpath in England.

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Ectoplasm (paranormal)

In spiritualism, ectoplasm, also known as simply ecto, is a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums.

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Edward I of England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

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Eleanor Coade

Eleanor Coade (3 June 1733 – 18 November 1821), Alison Kelly, Oxford National Dictionary of Biography - was a British businesswoman known for manufacturing Neoclassical statues, architectural decorations and garden ornaments made of Lithodipyra (Coade stone) for over 50 years from 1769 until her death.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Elizabeth Philpot

Elizabeth Philpot (1779–1857) was an early 19th-century British fossil collector, amateur palaeontologist and artist who collected fossils from the cliffs around Lyme Regis in Dorset on the southern coast of England.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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Eric Bertram Rowcroft

Major General Sir Eric Bertram Rowcroft (28 January 1891 – 27 December 1963), was a British Army officer.

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Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.

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Exmouth

Exmouth is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort situated on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe, southeast of Exeter. Lyme Regis and Exmouth are seaside resorts in England.

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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Foundling Hospital

The Foundling Hospital (formally the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children) was a children's home in London, England, founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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George Somers

Sir George Somers (before 24 April 1554 – 9 November 1610) was an English privateer and naval hero, knighted for his achievements and the Admiral of the Virginia Company of London.

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Georgina Castle Smith

Georgina Castle Smith (née Georgina Meyrick, pseudonym Brenda, 9 May 1845 – 27 December 1933) was a popular, productive English writer of didactic children's books.

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Great Storm of 1824

The Great Storm of 1824 (or Great Gale) was a hurricane force wind and storm surge that affected the south coast of England from 22 November 1824.

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Heart West

Heart West is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Heart network.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator.

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Heritage coast

A heritage coast is a strip of coastline in England and Wales, the extent of which is defined by agreement between the relevant statutory national agency and the relevant local authority.

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Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer and historian of the early 20th century.

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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (– 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Ian Gillan

Ian Gillan (born 19 August 1945) is an English singer who is best known as the lead singer and lyricist for the rock band Deep Purple.

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Ichthyosaurus

Ichthyosaurus (derived from Greek ἰχθύς (ichthys) meaning 'fish' and σαῦρος (sauros) meaning 'lizard') is a genus of ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian - Pliensbachian), with possible Late Triassic record, from Europe (Belgium, England, Germany, Switzerland, and Portugal).

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ITV West Country

ITV West Country is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the South West England franchise area on the ITV network.

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist.

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James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was a Dutch-born English nobleman and military officer.

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Jamestown, Virginia

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Fowles

John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

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John Gould

John Gould (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart.

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John Leland (antiquary)

John Leland or Leyland (13 September, – 18 April 1552) was an English poet and antiquary.

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John Richards Lapenotière

Captain John Richards Lapenotière (1770 – 19 January 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer who, as a lieutenant commanding the tiny topsail schooner HMS ''Pickle'', observed the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, participated in the rescue operations which followed it and then carried the dispatches of the victory and the death of Admiral Nelson to Britain.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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Jurassic Coast

The Jurassic Coast (also Dorset and East Devon Coast) is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. Lyme Regis and Jurassic Coast are geology of Dorset.

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Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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Liberty Trail

The Liberty Trail is a 28-mile (45.1 km) trail between Ham Hill in Somerset and Lyme Regis in Dorset, England.

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List of beaches in the United Kingdom

This is a list of notable beaches in the United Kingdom.

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List of fossil sites

This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.

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List of place names with royal styles in the United Kingdom

The following list of place names with royal styles in the United Kingdom includes places granted a royal title or style by express grant from the Crown (usually by royal charter or letters patent) and those with a royal title or style based on historic usage.

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LSWR 415 class

The LSWR 415 class is a 4-4-2T steam tank locomotive, with the trailing wheels forming the basis of its "Radial Tank" moniker.

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Lyme and Charmouth (ward)

Lyme and Charmouth is an electoral ward in Dorset.

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Lyme Bay

Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel off the south coast of England. Lyme Regis and Lyme Bay are Jurassic Coast.

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Lyme Regis (UK Parliament constituency)

Lyme Regis was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and then one member from 1832 until 1868, when the borough was abolished.

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Lyme Regis branch line

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.

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Lyme Regis Cemetery

Lyme Regis Cemetery is the principal cemetery in the English town of Lyme Regis, Dorset.

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Lyme Regis Fossil Festival

The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival is an annual festival held at Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast of East Devon and Dorset.

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Lyme Regis Guildhall

Lyme Regis Guildhall is a municipal building in Bridge Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.

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Lyme Regis Lifeboat Station

Lyme Regis Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Lyme Regis in Dorset, England.

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Mary Anning

Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.

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Maurice of the Palatinate

Maurice, Prince Palatine of the Rhine KG (16 January 1621 – September 1652) was the fourth son of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Princess Elizabeth, only daughter of King James VI and I and Anne of Denmark.

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Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis

Monmouth Beach is a pebble and rock beach stretching approximately westwards from the harbour at Lyme Regis, West Dorset to Pinhay Bay, East Devon. Lyme Regis and Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis are beaches of Dorset and Jurassic Coast.

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Monmouth Rebellion

The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Mortar (masonry)

Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or patterns to masonry walls.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Old Harry Rocks

Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. Lyme Regis and Old Harry Rocks are geology of Dorset and Jurassic Coast.

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Orcombe Point

Orcombe Point is a coastal feature near Exmouth, Devon, on the south coast of England. Lyme Regis and Orcombe Point are Jurassic Coast.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain.

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Percy Gilchrist

Percy Carlyle Gilchrist FRS (27 December 1851 – 16 December 1935) was a British chemist and metallurgist.

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Perry Street and District League

The Perry Street and District League, commonly known as the Perry Street League, is a football competition with clubs from south Somerset, west Dorset and East Devon, England.

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Persuasion (1960 TV series)

Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the 1817 Jane Austen novel of the same name.

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Persuasion (1971 TV series)

Persuasion is a 1971 British television serial adaptation of the 1817 Jane Austen novel of the same name.

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Persuasion (1995 film)

Persuasion is a BBC Screen Two 1995 period drama film directed by Roger Michell and based on Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name.

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Persuasion (2007 film)

Persuasion is a 2007 British television film adaptation of Jane Austen's 1817 novel Persuasion.

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Persuasion (2022 film)

Persuasion is a 2022 American historical romantic film based on Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name.

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Persuasion (novel)

Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen.

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Pinhay Bay

Pinhay Bay is a bay in Devon, on the south coast of England, about southwest of Lyme Regis and about east of Seaton. Lyme Regis and Pinhay Bay are Jurassic Coast.

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Plesiosaurus

Plesiosaurus (Greek: πλησίος (plesios), near to + σαῦρος (sauros), lizard) is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Early Jurassic.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.

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Port of Liverpool

The Port of Liverpool is the enclosed dock system that runs from Brunswick Dock in Liverpool to Seaforth Dock, Seaforth, on the east side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river.

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Portland Admiralty Roach

Portland Admiralty Roach is a kind of stone from the Isle of Portland used to construct "The Cobb", the well-known seawall at Lyme Regis in Dorset. Lyme Regis and Portland Admiralty Roach are geology of Dorset and Jurassic Coast.

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Portland stone

Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. Lyme Regis and Portland stone are geology of Dorset and Jurassic Coast.

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Possession (2002 film)

Possession is a 2002 romantic mystery drama film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart.

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Possession (Byatt novel)

Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction.

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Regis (place)

Regis, Latin for "of the king", occurs in numerous English place names.

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Richard Spencer (Royal Navy officer)

Captain Sir Richard Spencer KCH (9 December 1779 – 24 July 1839) the son of Richard Spencer, a London merchant.

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Right of way

A right of way (also right-of-way) is a transportation corridor along which people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.

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River Lym

The River Lym or River Lim is a short river, some 5 km (3.1 mi) in length, that flows through the Devon-Dorset border.

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Royal charter

A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent.

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Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) is the maintenance arm of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the Army uses.

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Royal Lion Hotel

The Royal Lion Hotel is a hotel in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.

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Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Una Ronan (born 12 April 1994) is an American-born Irish actress.

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Saxons

The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons, were the Germanic people of "Old" Saxony (Antiqua Saxonia) which became a Carolingian "stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany.

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Scelidosaurus

Scelidosaurus (with the intended meaning of "limb lizard", from Greek /σκελίς meaning 'rib of beef' and sauros/σαυρος meaning 'lizard')Liddell & Scott (1980).

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Selima Hill

Selima Hill (born 13 October 1945) is a British poet.

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Sherborne Abbey

Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St.

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Siege of Lyme Regis

The siege of Lyme Regis was an eight-week blockade during the First English Civil War.

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South West Coast Path

The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail. Lyme Regis and South West Coast Path are Jurassic Coast.

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St. George's, Bermuda

St.

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Statue of Mary Anning

The Statue of Mary Anning is a bronze sculpture of the paleontologist Mary Anning in Lyme Regis.

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Stockland Hill transmitting station

The Stockland Hill transmitting station is a transmitting facility of FM Radio and UHF television located near Honiton, Devon, England.

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Terrace (earthworks)

In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming.

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The Bodley Head

The Bodley Head is an English book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House.

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The French Lieutenant's Woman

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles.

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The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Leon Clore, and adapted by the playwright Harold Pinter.

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Thicklip grey mullet

The thicklip grey mullet, Chelon labrosus, is a coastal fish of the family Mugilidae.

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Thomas Coram

Captain Thomas Coram (– 29 March 1751) was an English sea captain and philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children on the streets of London.

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Three Cups Hotel

The Three Cups Hotel is a hotel in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.

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Timothée Chalamet

Timothée Hal Chalamet (born December 27, 1995) is an American and French actor.

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Tony Cottee

Antony Richard Cottee (born 11 July 1965) is an English former professional footballer and manager who now works as a television football commentator.

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Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Rose Chevalier (born 19 October 1962) is an American-British novelist.

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Transept

A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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Turnpike trust

Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Watercress Line

The Watercress Line is the marketing name of the Mid-Hants Railway, a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running from New Alresford to Alton where it connects to the National Rail network.

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Watermill

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.

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Weever

Weevers (or weeverfish) are nine extant species of fishes of family Trachinidae, order Trachiniformes, part of the Percomorpha clade.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.

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Wessex FM

Wessex FM was an Independent Local Radio station for the Weymouth, Dorchester and Bridport areas of Dorset, originating from studios in Dorchester.

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Wessex Ridgeway

The Wessex Ridgeway is a long-distance footpath in southwest England.

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West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)

West Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Edward Morello, a Liberal Democrat.

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West Ham

West Ham is a district in East London, England and is in the London Borough of Newham.

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Wonka (film)

Wonka is a 2023 musical fantasy comedy film directed by Paul King, who co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Farnaby based on a story by King.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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Wrasse

The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored.

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2011 United Kingdom census

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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2019–2023 structural changes to local government in England

Structural changes to local government in England took place between 2019 and 2023.

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See also

Beaches of Dorset

Geology of Dorset

Populated coastal places in Dorset

Towns in Dorset

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis

Also known as Lime Regis, Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium, Lyme Regis to West Bay - Dorset and East Devon Coast, Lyme Regis, Dorset, Lyme, Dorset, Pearl of Dorset, The Cobb, Town Mill Brewery.

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