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Extract from the Lyme Regis Travel Guides:
LYME REGIS
, Dorset's most westerly town, shelters snugly between steep hills, just before the grey, fossil-filled cliffs lurch into Devon. Its intimate size and undeniable photogenic qualities mean that in high summer car-borne crowds jostle with pedestrians for the limited space along Lyme's narrow streets. For all that, the town lives up to the classy impression created by its regal name, which it owes to a royal charter granted by Edward I in 1284. It has some upmarket literary associations to further bolster its self-esteem - Jane Austen penned
Persuasion
in a seafront cottage here, while novelist John Fowles is the to...
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