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I lost in the instant, hypnotized through the Pearl of Dorset that blinked softly in the twilight.
From my impressive point of view, my gaze wandered along the beach, beyond the beach huts of beyondel color to the small port and 13th-century dungeon where Meryl Streep was dramatically at the end of French Lieutenant’s Wife, Lyme Regis on the map. for good.
Happiness had enveloped me. And that’s why I had David, the awesome general manager of the Rock Point Inn, where I stay, to thank (well, plus a glass or two of a beautiful pink color).
Rock Point Inn: an 18th-century tavern with rooms in Lyme Regis that St Austell Brewery has dedicated to renovating
Ted’s King Deluxe Room The two chairs near the presentation window allow visitors to comfortably contemplate the seascape and charms of Dorset Pearl
Lyme Regis Cobb appears on poster of French lieutenant’s wife
He told me that he had seen two chairs placed near the long window overlooking the sea of our king room/luxury double beds on the most sensitive grounds were a little too low to watch the activities.
He replaced them with superior chairs, and now my spouse and I are reaping the rewards.
I would book this room at the Rock Point Inn only for the installation of the chair by the window.
But just in case it didn’t work, and since St. Austell Brewery, who owns it, has taken the trouble to spend millions to repair this seductive 18th-century beach tavern, which reopened in July, I’ll reveal a little more. about it, and the captivating city it is in.
My stay, with my wife and three-year-old daughter, a kind of nostalgic journey.
My expensive grandmother lived in Axminster, a few miles inland, and made a stopover at Lyme Regis, a long-awaited annual circle of relatives leaving in the 1970s and 1980s.
I love the harbour and the majestic Cobb, but above all the quiet bay, which you can bathe and the golden sand that bureaucracies a better arch in front of the picturesque buildings of the city.
In my mind, in recent years, the city had a halo around it.
And what I discovered in the afterlife was, fortunately, still charming.
We walked through the harbour, unchanged in my eyes, and saw his contingent of small yachts and fishing boats moving in the water, sand castles were erected on the golden grains and fish and chips of a beach gem called Herbies creaked beach while watching the stunning fossil-rich cliffs that walk east to Weymouth.
Lyme Regis, as you can see, is located on the Jurassic Coast, a stunning 96-mile-long Unesco heritage site, full of dinosaur remains.
The gigantic separate bathroom in Ted’s room on Rock Point’s most sensitive terrain
Deluxe King bathroom features vintage-look tile and rainfall showerhead, plus a handful of exposed beams
The Rock Point Bar, a nine-bedroom inn seconds from the beach
And her greatest fame is that Mary Anning, born there in 1799, discovered near the skull, with the help of her brother, one of the first dinosaur fossils described through science, according to the Jurassic Coast Trust. and Mary continued to forge a foreign reputation as a fossil hunter.
(So, more particularly, Meryl Streep put Lyme Regis back on the map. )
With the trail of reminiscence marked, it’s time to inspect our homes, until the closure of Serious Good Wine Company for the purchase of roses.
Rock Point Inn, a nine-room pub, occupies a revealing position: at the mouth of the Lym River and probably just 25 steps from the beach.
The Cobb has been serving as breakwaters at Lyme Regis since 1313. According lymeregis. org, the oldest drawing dates back to 1539
This photo taken right in front of The Rock Point Inn, looking towards the harbor and Cobb and the nearby sandy segment of the beach, which may be prominent on the far right
The port is a wonderful place to take a quiet walk, and this is where the perfect aquarium of the city is located.
The city was mentioned in the Domesday Book and won a royal charter from King Edward I in 1284.
On Coombe Street is a mailbox dating from 1799 to 1853, one of the oldest in the country.
Survivors of the torpedo battleship HMS Formidable landed on lifeboats in 1915 and were taken to the Pilot Boat Hotel. It is said that the owner’s dog, Lassie, licked a sailor insensitive to life. .
Jane Austen stayed in the city in 1803 and 1804 and, in part, put her last wonderful novel, Persuasion, there.
Mary Anning, born there in 1799, discovered near the skull, with the help of her brother, one of the first dinosaur fossils described through science.
J R R Tolkien stayed at the city’s former Three Cups hotel.
Beatrix Potter has already stayed at Lyme Regis and is believed to have moved to what is now the Mariners Hotel, where he worked on The Tale of Little Pig Robinson and sketched the city.
The Cobb has been used as breakwaters in Lyme Regis since 1313. According to lymeregis. org, the first drawing of it dates back to 1539.
The city was redesigned in Victorian times for the filming of The Wife of the French Lieutenant.
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