Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lyme Regis. You may be able to find further references to Lyme Regis in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
LYME-REGIS	a town and a parish	Imperial
LYME (THE)	a rivulet	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Lyme Regis.

Place	Type of entry	Source
COLWAY	a tything	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Lyme Regis within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands	1
Celia Fiennes	1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Middle Mill	0	1
Uplyme	0	2
Charmouth	1	2
Monkton Wyld	0	1
Catherston Leweston	0	2
Wootton Fitzpaine	0	2
Combpyne	0	2
Stanton St Gabriel	0	2
Rousdon	0	3
Whitechurch Canonicorum	0	3
Musbury	0	2
Axmouth	0	2
Axminster	8	3
Ashe	0	2
Lambarts Castle	0	2
Hawkchurch	0	2
Chideock	0	2
Marshwood	0	2
Whitford	0	2
Colyford	0	2