Posted in Dorset, tagged Lyme Regis, Sandbanks on July 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Picture by Tim Britton
The Dorset Coast Path Relay is an annual long-distance race which has traditionally been held between orienteering clubs within the South West Orienteering Association. The relay is raced from the Devon-Dorset border at Lyme Regis along the Coast Path (taking the inland route north of Weymouth) all the way to the Sandbanks chain-ferry slip at Shell Bay
Posted in Audio, Dorset, tagged Ashmore, Lyme Regis, Shillingstone, Wessex Ridgeway on June 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Picture by Marilyn Peddle
The Wessex Ridgeway Trail stretches 62 miles from Ashmore on the Dorset/Wiltshire Border in the east to Lyme Regis in the west. To mark it’s opening Farm Radio team members created an audio journey in five parts along its length. This is the second part and takes us from the Somerset and Dorset Railway Station at Shillingstone to Dorset Gap.
Posted in Dorset, tagged Lyme Regis, Paul Hart, Studland on April 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The votwo Jurassic Coast Challenge is the original (and quite possibly the best) coastal running challenge in the UK. Inspired by the late Paul Hart who ran the route in the early 1980s preparing for the London marathon it was reborn in 2006 as a mass participation event with 12 competitors braving the course between Lyme Regis and Studland.
Posted in Dorset, tagged Lyme Regis on February 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Picture by Mark Robinson
With a little assistance from a modern environment this new racing gig is under construction in the traditional way at Lyme Regis.
Posted in Dorset, Video, tagged Lyme Regis on December 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This film highlights a campaign in Lyme Regis, West Dorset to rid the town and it’s beaches of plastic bags and reduce the towns Ecological Footprint.
Posted in Dorset, Video, tagged Chesil Beach, Lyme Regis on December 12, 2008| Leave a Comment »
A growing number of people around the UK are recognising the need to change their lifestyles – to use fewer resources and create less waste. This is the first of a series of films showing how some motivated people from West Dorset are bringing their communities together and inspiring others to recycle, use fewer resources and use alternative sources of power and building materials.
Posted in Dorset, tagged Lyme Regis on December 2, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Picture by Ade46
It’s late November in Lyme Regis and the summer tourists have all gone home. With clear skies and a calm sea this has to be the best time for walks on the beach.
Posted in Dorset, tagged Lyme Regis on November 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Picture by Ian S
The Rock Point Inn and the Cobb Gate Fish Bar at Lyme Regis, just the place to order Rock & Chips. For those that don’t know, Rock salmon, (also called Rock eel, Flake, and Huss) is the flesh of the Spiny dogfish or the bull huss.
Posted in Dorset, tagged Ichthyosaurus, Lyme Regis, Mary Anning on October 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Picture by Kevin Walsh
The first complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaurus was discovered in 1811 by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis. Anning was 12 years old at the time of her discovery. She went on to find two other distinct species of Ichthyosaur.
Posted in Dorset, Video, tagged Chesil Beach, Lyme Regis, Weymouth on October 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This video of parts of Dorset’s Jurassic coast by AndyN1958 features Lyme Regis, The Chesil Beach and Weymouth
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