Lyme Regis & Abbotsbury

Lyme Regis was our lunch stop and is a well known sea port on what is known as the Jurassic Coast, due to the amount of dinosaur fossils that have been discovered there. Many of these were found by a poor local woman, Mary Anning, in the early 1800's, who sold them on the beach to help make ends meet, hence the rhyme "She sells seashells by the seashore", which was written about her.

The village of Abbotsbury in Dorset was full of thatched cottages. It was also adjacent to an area on the coast known as the Fleet, which was where Barnes Wallis first tested his bouncing bombs used in the Dambusters in 1943. Next week is the 80th anniversary of the raid.Read more