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Lyme Regis.

Lyme Regis

(0.2 miles, 0.3 km)

Almost the first thing you notice about this pleasant seaside resort, is the spaciousness of the town. The second, and nothing can prepare you for this, is the sheer scale of Lyme Bay with its splendid views towards the rugged sandstone cliffs west of Eype Mouth...

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Golden Cap, Dorset

Charmouth

(1.5 miles, 2.5 km, direction NE)

This pretty resort grew up in a gap of cliffs overlooking picturesque Lyme Bay. In the days prior to the motor car it was a fashionable coaching stop. One illustrious visitor of.....

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Crossing by the Brush Works

Axminster

(4.9 miles, 7.8 km, direction NW)

Famous for its carpets often likened to Turkish, Axminster was one of the first West Saxon settlements formed along the River Axe in Devon...

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Seatown near West Bay

Seatown

(4.9 miles, 7.8 km, direction E)

Seatown is a small Hamlet along Dorset's famous Jurassic Coast and is popular with fossil hunters. It has a clean and quiet shingle beach (no dogs allowed) and is a good location.....

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Seaton

Axmouth

(5.3 miles, 8.5 km, direction W)

This quiet resort of colourwashed cottages sitting at the edge of the River Axe was once an important south Devon port...

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St Andrew's Church, Colyton, Devon

Colyton

(6.2 miles, 9.9 km, direction W)

The town of Colyton, in Devon, first appeared as an ancient village around 700 AD and appeared inthe Doomsday Book as 'Culitone'. It was once described as "the most rebellious.....

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Seaton

Seaton

(6.2 miles, 10.0 km, direction W)

The town is mostly Victorian and Edwardian in character, you only have to cast your eyes above today's modern shop fronts to see handsome overhanging bay windows which belong firmly to another era...

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A panoramic view of Pilsdon Pen.

Pilsdon

(6.6 miles, 10.5 km, direction NE)

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That was one long walk

Bridport

(7.7 miles, 12.3 km, direction E)

Bridport can be classed as having everything to please the holiday maker, it has a strong nautical atmosphere born of its long association with the sea, and its history as a flourishing rope making town during the great age of sailing ships...

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Crystal waters

West Bay

(7.7 miles, 12.4 km, direction E)

West Bay nestles at the western end of spectacular Chesil Beach whose billions of pebbles have been a constant source of fascination for centuries...

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Dinosaurland

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A view of the Marine Aquarium on the old Cobb with Lyme regis, Dorset, in the background.

Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium

(0.3 miles, 0.4 km)

Where better to see and learn about the creatures of the deep than in an aquarium suite set tantalizingly beside the sea. Well,.....

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Coney's Castle

(3.8 miles, 6.1 km, direction NE)

Coney's Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, offering spectacular views. The name Coney is from the Old English.....

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Golden Cap in the distance

Golden Cap

(3.9 miles, 6.3 km, direction E)

Part of the Jurassic Coast, Dorset's Golden Cap is the highest point on the south-coast of the British Isles. The 626 ft (191.....

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The outside of Motoring Memories, Colyford, Devon

Motoring Memories

(5.7 miles, 9.2 km, direction W)

Motoring Memories is a collection of motoring memorabilia and vehicles that has been assembled over the last 30 years. It is now.....

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Glorious sunset in front of farmhouse B&B (Gerrards Farm) near Pilsdon, Dorset

Pilsdon Pen

(6.5 miles, 10.4 km, direction NE)

Pilsdon Pen is a hill in the North end of the Marshwood Vale, Dorset, 4.5 miles west of Beaminster. It is topped by an ancient.....

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Loughwood Meeting House, Dalwood, Near Axminster, Devon. Owned by the National Trust

Loughwood Meeting House

(7.0 miles, 11.2 km, direction NW)

17th-century thatched Baptist meeting house, constructed approx 1653...

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Pecorama gardens

Pecorama

(7.7 miles, 12.3 km, direction W)

Pecorama offers a real treat for everyone visiting Beer, a pretty coastal resort which was once the haunt of Smugglers. This.....

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Lewesdon Hill

Lewesdon Hill

(7.9 miles, 12.7 km, direction NE)

Lewesdon Hill is the highest point in Dorset with views between the trees over Devon, Somerset and out to sea. The hill is 915ft.....

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Forde Abbey, nr Chard, Somerset. A former Cistercian foundation. Photo taken September 1991.

Forde Abbey

(8.1 miles, 13.0 km, direction N)

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