View looking down on the Rock Point Inn, Lyme Regis, Dorset, looking out towards Black Venn and Charmouth on the Jurassic Coast
Nestled beside the harbour, the Rock Point takes a front-row seat to the ‘Pearl of Dorset’. Experience Lyme Regis from the water’s edge, with the Jurassic Coast on your doorstep. Our comfy sea view rooms are the perfect base for enjoying all this beautiful area has to offer. Pop in for a bite to eat from our contemporary menu or simply savour a pint of award-winning beer while gazing out across the ocean. Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", 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 Site and heritage coast. The harbour wall, known as The Cobb, appears in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, the John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and the 1981 film of that name, partly shot in the town. A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who founded the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, now Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis joined Jamestown, Virginia in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 census gave the urban area a population of 4,712, estimated at 4,805 in 2019. The town's beaches and cliffs are noted for fossils. They form part of the local Heritage Coast and the more extensive coastal World Heritage Site, commonly referred to as the Jurassic Coast – stretching for 153 kilometres (95 mi) from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in the west to Old Harry Rocks in the east. The coastal exposures provide a continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock formations spanning some 185 million years of the Earth's history. Localities along the Jurassic Coast include a range of important fossil zones. The Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone geological formations host a multitude of remains from the Early Jurassic, from which epoch good fossil records are rare.
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Location: 1-2 Broad Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3QD
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