This description of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England is taken from The representative history of Great Britain and Ireland by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield published in 1816.
Lyme Regis is a sea port, borough, and market town in the hundred of Whitchurch, division of Bridport, Dorset, 23 miles from Dorchester, 28 from Exeter, and 143 from London; containing 265 houses, and 1,451 inhabitants, of whom 534- were returned employed in various trades. Its commodious harbour has been artificially con-strutted. The materials of its rude pier consist of vast stones weighed out of the sea, arranged in such a manner as to break the violence of the tide, which has made great encroachments, the cliffs being composed of a kind of marl and blue clay incorporated with lime. The market is on Friday. Fairs, February 2, and September 21.
