Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: Lyme Regis

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is a view looking up at the landslide area at the western end of Pinhay Bay, east Devon. The trees are at all sorts of odd angles and some have fallen completely due to the continuing intermittent landslide movements. The top of the landslide scar is seen in this photo: www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024280

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. The 'undercliff' is the area between the beach and the back landslide scarp face, which may be as much as 700 metres inland. Mostly this is dense woodland, but occasionally there are more open areas where landslides are still intermittently active, where the larger trees have either been uprooted or have not yet had the chance to mature (as is the case here, viewed from the back scarp face of one of the more recent landslides). Just visible on the distant horizon is the Isle of Portland, far across the other side of Lyme Bay.

This is the toe of the landslide of 8th May 2008 just east of Church Cliff, Lyme Regis, Dorset. As well as Jurassic shales and limestones, the landslide also brought down debris from a former landfill site including many glass bottles and rusty motor car components.

The Spittles is an extensive area of landslides between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, Dorset. In the centre is the toe of the landslide of 8th May 2008 just east of Church Cliff. As well as Jurassic shales and limestones, the landslide also brought down debris from a former landfill site including many glass bottles and rusty motor car components.

A distant view of The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Dorset, stretching into a calm sea at the top of the tide, on a hazy, lazy Spring morning. Photo taken from The Spittles.

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is the remains of the Allhallows (or Rousdon) water pumping station just east of the Dowlands landslide complex, between Seaton, Devon and Lyme Regis, Dorset. It was steam-driven and used to pump water from the undercliff up to the farms and dwellings on the top of the cliff. This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. The 'undercliff' is the area between the beach and the back landslide scarp face, which may be as much as 700 metres inland.

This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. The rock in the landslip back scar is the Upper Greensand Formation (Cretaceous).

This is located next to the South West Coast Path which runs through the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliff National Nature Reserve, a conservation area of international importance. This is an area of extensive landslides which have created a jumble of ridges and chasms, now the location of luxurious woodland and special habitats for plants, birds, insects and other animals. This is a panorama stitched from three photos using Canon's 'PhotoStitch' software.

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. Rates of Merchandise 1879. This is part of a much longer list posted on the side of the main harbour building at The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Dorset.

Fishing tackle on The Cobb harbour wall, Lyme Regis, Dorset.

View over The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Dorset. The Cain's Folly cliff just east of Charmouth is visible in the distance, illuminated by the setting sun.

Harbour dues list at The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Dorset

The Cobb harbour entrance, Lyme Regis, Dorset and Cain's Folly cliff near Charmouth, illuminated by the setting sun.

Near the start of my walk westwards along the South West Coastal Path, looking back towards Lyme Regis. Golden Cap and Langdon Hill are in the distance; the Cobb peeks out through the trees.

Near the start of my walk westwards along the South West Coastal Path, looking back towards Lyme Regis and the wild and inaccessible landslide area of the undercliff at Ware.

The tide was nearly at its lowest and extensive rock ledges were exposed at the western end of Pinhay Bay, Devon, just west of Lyme Regis. I was fascinated by the pattern of joints in the rock ledges (White Lias (Rhaetic), I think).

Pinhay Bay, Devon, just west of Lyme Regis. Walking along the beach I was suddenly aware that it had gone very quiet - it was calm and windless and there was not a sound coming from the sea. The tide was at its lowest and there was scarcely a ripple on the water. About ten minutes later the tide had turned and once again small waves were breaking on the beach with their familiar sound returning once more.

The sky, sea, beach and cliffs all converge at Pinhay Bay, Devon, just west of Lyme Regis. The cliffs are of Blue Lias (Lower Jurassic), renowned for their ammonites and saurian fossils.