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A fine little town on a hillside where the street is still lined with thatched houses and even some Regency bow windows.
Jane Austen called this a place for ‘sitting in wearied contemplation’.
It is situated in one of the few gaps in the hills that break into the cliffs overlooking Lyme Bay.
The Queen’s Armes was built firstly as a house and Catherine of Aragon stayed here on her arrival in England in 1501. It later became an inn and one of its more famous figures was that of Prince Charles in 1651 after being in hiding and waiting for a boat to take him to France.
The beautiful beach has no sand at high tide but is a good time to go fossil hunting.
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- Landmark