Qualla: Lyme Regis https://qualla.com/lyme-regis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/b/lyme-regis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lyme Regis https://qualla.com/lyme-regis Lyme Regis: Introduction https://qualla.com/lyme-regis/ Photo credit Eddusgl, CC BY-SA 4.0. She was twelve years old when she and her brother Joseph pulled the long skull of an ichthyosaur out of the cliff at Lyme Regis. The year was 1811 - a year before Napoleon marched into Russia, three decades before anyone in England would even use the word 'dinosaur'. The girl's name was Mary Anning, and the creature whose bones she had just uncovered had been swimming in a Jurassic sea two hundred million years before any human being was alive to wonder about it. Lyme Regis is a small place. About four thousand people. A curved harbour wall, a steep main street, fossil-shaped lampposts. But what Mary Anning quarried from these crumbling cliffs - and what the cliffs have continued to give up since - changed how every generation after her thinks about the age of the Earth.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/b/lyme-regis-wp/gcjb-lyme-regis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lyme Regis: The Cobb https://qualla.com/lyme-regis/ Photo credit Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0. The wall that makes the town possible is older than the records. The first written mention of the Cobb dates to 1328, when a document notes that storms had already damaged it. It was originally made of oak piles driven into the sea bed, with boulders floated into the gaps between...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/b/lyme-regis-wp/gcjb-lyme-regis-the-cobb.mp3 0:06 2 full Lyme Regis: Mary Anning's Cliffs https://qualla.com/lyme-regis/ Photo credit Ballista at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Mary Anning was born in 1799, the daughter of a poor cabinetmaker who supplemented his income by collecting and selling 'curiosities' to tourists - the strange spiral stones and dragon-bones that the Blue Lias cliffs east of town routinely surrendered. He died when she was eleven...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/b/lyme-regis-wp/gcjb-lyme-regis-mary-annings-cliffs.mp3 0:06 3 full Lyme Regis: A Coast That Will Not Sit Still https://qualla.com/lyme-regis/ Photo credit Ballista at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The reason Lyme Regis is a fossil town and not just a pretty one is that its cliffs are actively falling down. The Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone formations that hold the Jurassic remains are notoriously unstable; the coast crumbles into the sea on a regular schedule, exposing ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/b/lyme-regis-wp/gcjb-lyme-regis-a-coast-that-will-not-sit-still.mp3 0:06 4 full Lyme Regis: A Pearl, a Sloop, a Lassie https://qualla.com/lyme-regis/ Photo credit Leon Howe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lyme Regis carries its history lightly. Edward I added the 'Regis' to its name in 1284. Admiral Sir George Somers, a former mayor, was shipwrecked in 1609 and founded the English colony that became Bermuda - the two towns are now twinned. On New Year's Day 1915 the bodies of sail...

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