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Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis is a town in west , England, 25 miles west of and east of . Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the at the Dorset– border.
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  • Type: Town with 4,710 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Lyme Regis, Dorset”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lyme Regis Museum and Dinosaurland Fossil Museum.

Museum
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Lyme Regis Philpot Museum is situated in the town of Lyme Regis on the in , . It is a registered charity under English law.

Museum
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is a privately owned fossil in Lyme Regis, on the in , . The museum is located in a historic Grade I listed former congregational church building.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Charmouth and Uplyme.

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is a village and civil parish in west , England. The village is situated on the mouth of the , around 1+1⁄2 miles north-east of Lyme Regis.

Village
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is an English village and civil parish in on the Devon-Dorset border and the River Lym, adjacent to the coastal town of Lyme Regis.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in civil parish in the district of in the English county of . is located northwest of the town of Lyme Regis about a mile west of Uplyme village.

Lyme Regis

Latitude
50.7253° or 50° 43′ 31″ north
Longitude
-2.9346° or 2° 56′ 4″ west
Population
4,710
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LYR
Open location code
9C2VP3G8+45
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1215468739
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2643314
Wiki­data ID
Q82490
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lyme Regis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لايم ريجيس”
  • Armenian: “Լայմ Ռիջիս”
  • Asturian: “Lyme Regis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laym-Recis”
  • Basque: “Lyme Regis”
  • Bengali: “লাইমে রেগিস”
  • Catalan: “Lyme Regis”
  • Cebuano: “Lyme Regis”
  • Chinese: “Lyme Regis”
  • Chinese: “莱姆里吉斯”
  • Chinese: “莱姆里杰斯”
  • Chinese: “萊姆瑞基斯”
  • Czech: “Lyme Regis”
  • Danish: “Lyme Regis”
  • Dutch: “Lyme Regis”
  • Esperanto: “Lyme Regis”
  • Finnish: “Lyme Regis”
  • French: “Lyme Regis”
  • Georgian: “ლაიმ-რეჯისი”
  • German: “Lyme Regis”
  • Greek: “Λάιμ Ρίτζις”
  • Gujarati: “લીમ રેજિસ”
  • Hebrew: “ליים רג’יס”
  • Icelandic: “Lyme Regis”
  • Indonesian: “Lyme Regis”
  • Irish: “Lyme Regis”
  • Italian: “Lyme Regis”
  • Japanese: “ライム・リージス”
  • Japanese: “ライム・レジス”
  • Kannada: “ಲೈಮ್ ರೆಗಿಸ್”
  • Korean: “라임 레지스”
  • Ladin: “Lyme Regis”
  • Latin: “Lyme Regis”
  • Lithuanian: “Laim Redžisas”
  • Macedonian: “Лајм Реџис”
  • Marathi: “लाईम रीजिस”
  • Marathi: “लाईम रेगीस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lyme Regis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyme Regis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyme Regis”
  • Norwegian: “Lyme Regis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lyme Regis”
  • Persian: “لایم ریجیس”
  • Polish: “Lyme Regis”
  • Portuguese: “Lyme Regis”
  • Romanian: “Lyme Regis”
  • Russian: “Лайм-Риджис”
  • Silesian: “Lyme Regis”
  • Slovak: “Lyme Regis”
  • Slovenian: “Lyme Regis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لایم ریجیس”
  • Spanish: “Lyme Regis”
  • Spanish: “Lyme”
  • Swedish: “Lyme Regis”
  • Tajik: “Лайм-Реҷис”
  • Tamil: “லிமே ரெஜிஸ்”
  • Telugu: “లైమ్ రెగిస్”
  • Ukrainian: “Лайм-Реджис”
  • Ukrainian: “Лайм-Реджіс”
  • Urdu: “لائم رجیس”
  • Volapük: “Lyme Regis”
  • Welsh: “Lyme Regis”
  • Western Panjabi: “لائم رجیس”

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