Lyme Regis - Dorset - England - Harbour, Seafront & Town Centre - 4K Virtual Walk

Join us for a walk in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Our walk starts in Langmoor and Lister Gardens with beautiful views across Lyme Bay. We descend onto the seafront promenade, part of the South West Coast Path, admiring the views of Lyme Regis Beach. We walk out to Lyme Regis harbour and along The Cobb wall, from here there are lovely views of Lyme Regis. We then walk along the seafront promenade, soaking up the atmosphere and take a look at the lovely beach huts. We walk down to the Lyme Regis Museum and Marine Theatre and then up through Lyme Regis town centre, where we finish our walk.

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Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies on Lyme Bay on the English Channel coast at the Dorset–Devon border. 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.

Lyme Regis' beaches and cliffs are noted for fossils. They are part of the Heritage Coast — known as the Jurassic Coast – a World Heritage Site stretching for 95 miles, 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 large range of important fossil zones. Ammonite design streetlamps reflect the town's location on the Jurassic Coast.

Landslides are a problem in the Lyme Regis area. In 2005, work began on a £16 million engineering project to stabilise the cliffs and protect the town from coastal erosion. The town's main beach was reconstructed and reopened on 1 July 2006. On the evening of 6 May 2008, a 400 metres (1,300 ft) section of land slipped onto the beach between Lyme Regis and Charmouth. Police described the landslip as the "worst in 100 years". It necessitated diverting the South West Coast Path inland between Lyme Regis and Charmouth via the Lyme Regis Golf Course.

The first record of the Cobb, the town's harbour wall, is in a 1328 document describing it as having been damaged by storms. The Cobb wall provides a breakwater to protect the town from storms and separates Monmouth and Cobb Gate beaches. The Cobb was of economic importance to the town and surrounding area, creating an artificial harbour that enabled the town to develop as a port and a shipbuilding centre from the 13th century onwards. Shipbuilding was significant between 1780 and 1850; nearly 100 ships were launched. Well-sited for trade with France, the port's most prosperous period was from the 16th century until the end of the 18th century. In 1780, the port was larger than the Port of Liverpool but the town's importance as a port declined in the 19th century because it was unable to handle the increase in ship sizes.

The Cobb has been destroyed or severely damaged by storms several times; it was swept away in 1377 when 50 boats and 80 houses were also destroyed. The southern arm was added in the 1690s and rebuilt in 1793 after it was destroyed in a storm the previous year.

Open since the late 1950s, Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium is situated in an early 18th century stone building on the Cobb harbour wall. The aquarium showcases some of the abundant local sea life as well as offering an insight into Lyme's rich maritime history.