Lyme Bay
Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel off the south coast of England. The south western counties of Devon and Dorset front onto the bay. The exact definitions of the bay vary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seatown and Lyme Regis.
Seatown
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seatown is a coastal hamlet in Dorset, England, on the English Channel approximately 3 miles west-southwest of Bridport. It lies within the civil parish of Chideock.
Lyme Regis
Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border.
Eype Mouth
Locality
Photo: Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eype Mouth is a natural break in a line of sea cliffs on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in west Dorset on the south coast of England. The small River Eype drains into the sea at this point.
Lyme Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: area of the English Channel
- Category: body of water
- Location: Charmouth, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.676° or 50° 40′ 34″ northLongitude
-2.87179° or 2° 52′ 18″ westOpen location code
9C2VM4GH+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 531686728OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2643315Wikidata ID
Q2879675
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lyme Bay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lyme Badia”
- Catalan: “Lyme Bay”
- Cebuano: “Lyme Bay”
- Chinese: “莱姆湾”
- Chinese: “萊姆灣”
- French: “baie de Lyme”
- French: “Baie de lyme”
- French: “Baie de Lyme”
- French: “Baie De Lyme”
- French: “Lyme Bay”
- German: “Lyme Bay”
- German: “Lyme Bucht”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ ליים”
- Japanese: “ライム湾”
- Low German: “Lyme Bay”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyme Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyme Bay”
- Norwegian: “Lyme Bay”
- Polish: “Lyme Bay”
- Polish: “Zatoka Lyme”
- Russian: “Лайм”
- Spanish: “Bahia de Lyme”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Lyme”
- Spanish: “Bahia Lyme”
- Spanish: “Bahía Lyme”
- Spanish: “Lyme bay”
- Spanish: “Lyme Bay”
- Swedish: “Lyme Bay”
- Venetian: “Baja de Lyme”
- Welsh: “Bae Lyme”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Lyme Bay”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as East Ebb and Seatown.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Golden Cap and Seatown Beach.
Dorset: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester, and Weymouth.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lyme Bay”. Photo: steverenouk, CC BY-SA 2.0.