Beatrice Potter spent holiday time at Lyme Regis in and used some of the views of the town in her book 'Little Pig Robinson'.
This line, like many others in the 's was scrapped during the British Rail cutbacks. In the railway station was dismantled and rebuilt at Alresford, near Winchester for the 'Watercress' Mid Hants Railway.
The path leaves to the west of Lyme Regis, entering the county of Devon and towards Dowlands Landslip. This is a very remote wooded area. Lyme Regis Cobb , Dorset Lyme Bay Saturday, 13th November , am. All rights reserved. So, why not look up Lyme Regis accommodation today and book a stay in one of the South West's most desirable holiday destinations? Places to Stay. See and Do. Food and Drink.
Gift shops Food shops Fashion shops Speciality shops. Lyme is exposed to south-westerly gales, and the Cobb acts as both a harbour and a breakwater. Because of The Cobb, Lyme Regis became a shipbuilding centre and important port: as recently at it was larger than the port of Liverpool. Whilst in Lyme she wrote to her sister describing how she enjoyed bathing, walking on the Cobb, and dancing at the local Assembly Rooms.
Lyme Regis has not always been the quiet seaside resort it is today. The town was besieged by Royalist forces during the Civil War in The Monmouth Rebellion ended in failure at the Battle of Sedgemoor : 23 rebels were later hung and quartered on the beach where he first stepped ashore.
He was also instrumental in ensuring the survival of the Virginian colony of Jamestown by sailing to their rescue from Bermuda where he had been shipwrecked with fresh food and supplies.
He returned to Bermuda to collect more supplies but fell ill and died in His heart was buried in Bermuda but his body, pickled in a barrel, was landed on the Cobb at Lyme Regis in A volley of muskets and cannon saluted his last journey to Whitchurch Canonicorum where his body is buried. Lyme Regis is situated at the heart of the Jurassic Coast, so called because of the wealth of fossils found here.
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