Lyme Museum
Museum · A museum of the Jurassic Coast and its fossils, on the site of Mary Anning's birthplace.
Lyme Regis
A fossil-rich Jurassic coastline where ancient cliffs tumble into a charming seaside harbour town.
From King's Cross St Pancras: ~3 h 45 min by train · Over 4 h by car
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Time there: 2.5–4.5 h to see all 3 places
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Quick facts
Fossils turn up in the cliffs and on the shingle, and Mary Anning, who lived here, found the first complete ichthyosaur skeleton just along the coast.
Walk out along the Cobb, the curved stone harbour wall that appears in Jane Austen's Persuasion and in the 1981 film of The French Lieutenant's Woman.
Lyme Regis sits on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site since 2001, where 185 million years of rock are exposed along about 154 km of coast.
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