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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lyme Regis
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(4000 in 1991) Fishing town and resort in Dorset, fashionable from the 18C and known in particular for the Cobb, an ancient stone breakwater curving far out into the sea (it features in *Persuasion). The cliffs between here and neighbouring Charmouth became a favourite hunting ground for palaeontologists after a 12-year-old local child, Mary Anning (1799–1847), discovered a 6.4m/21ft fossil of an ichthyosaur (now in London's Natural History Museum). The addition of Regis (Latin for 'of the king') was granted in 1285 by *Edward I.
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