Blue Lias, and mudstone cliffside to erode and thus expose ossified remains of extinct beasts. For this reason, Lyme Regis is already one of the UK’s ‘fossiling’ hotspots, part of a prolific ...

The bluish-hued cliffs along Lyme Regis, on England’s Dorset coast, possess alternating bands of limestone and shale, referred to as “Blue Lias,” that belong to the oldest section of the ...

In 1811, Lyme Regis fossil hunter Mary Anning - aged ... Anning spent a year extracting the dinosaur fossil from 205 million-year-old Blue Lias cliffs on the beach. It remains one of the most ...

It was filmed on location in Lyme Regis, and is a fictionalised story ... there were dozens of outdoorsy types poking among the blue lias and mudstone the day that three friends and I accompanied ...

Lyme Regis could have looked a lot different if ... "Lyme ships were able to return cargoes with blue lias limestone, for example, found in Lyme for hydraulic cement manufacture in Sunderland ...

with cosy seating and a handsome curved bar between walls formed from blue lias blocks. The restaurant is on the main drag of Lyme Regis, that pretty Dorset seaside town of sandy beaches and ...

I believe that the best time to visit Lyme Regis is in the very early morning. My son fossil hunts while I pick my way over the shale and Blue Lias rock of East Beach, to 'the boulder’.