Lyme Regis: Mary Anning's Fossil Coast
South West, England
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Lyme Regis: Mary Anning's Fossil Coast
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As a girl Mary Anning found the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton on the Lias shore at Lyme Regis in 1811–12, after her brother Joseph had found its skull, and fossil hunters still work Monmouth Beach and Church Cliff. The Lyme Regis Museum stands on the site of the Anning family's home, Dinosaurland is in Coombe Street, and the Cobb, the harbour wall, is the one in The French Lieutenant's Woman. East along the beach, the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre runs fossil walks.
Required Activities
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of 5
Fossil-hunt at Monmouth Beach and Church Cliff with a guide, on the Lias shore where Mary Anning found the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton as a girl
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of 5
Visit the Lyme Regis Museum on Bridge Street, on the site of the Anning family's home
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of 5
Visit Dinosaurland Fossil Museum on Coombe Street
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of 5
Walk out along the Cobb, the harbour wall that appears in The French Lieutenant's Woman
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of 5
Join a fossil walk from the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre along the beach
Fossil-hunt at Monmouth Beach and Church Cliff with a guide, on the Lias shore where Mary Anning found the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton as a girl
Visit the Lyme Regis Museum on Bridge Street, on the site of the Anning family's home
Visit Dinosaurland Fossil Museum on Coombe Street
Walk out along the Cobb, the harbour wall that appears in The French Lieutenant's Woman
Join a fossil walk from the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre along the beach
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