{"id":1660,"date":"2011-04-21T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2013-09-22T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T09:23:19","slug":"lyme-regis-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/lyme-regis-dorset\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyme Regis Dorset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A charming little coastal resort on Lyme Bay in West Dorset, Lyme Regis was a significant medieval port which became a holiday resort during the eighteenth century. It was awarded it royal title \u201cRegis\u201d by Edward I in the late 13<sup>th<\/sup> century. The harbour, which became a haven for vessels in stormy weather, it protected by a wall called \u201cThe Cobb\u201d, which also allowed the port to build and launch ships. The ill-fated Monmouth Rebellion to overthrow James I, began here in 1685, after the Duke of Monmouth landed there. <a title=\"Lyme Regis Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapamundo.co.uk\/lyme-regis-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lyme Regis<\/a> was a popular area for smugglers during centuries past and later featured in two books, Jane Austen\u2019s \u201cPersuasion\u201d and John Fowls \u201cThe French Lieutenant\u2019s Woman\u201d (later made into a film starring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. Lyme Regis and neighbouring <a title=\"Charmouth Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/charmouth-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Charmouth<\/a> are two of the best areas for fossils, this being part of the Jurassic Coast Heritage Coast of <a title=\"Dorset Map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/dorset-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dorset<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A charming little coastal resort on Lyme Bay in West Dorset, Lyme Regis was a significant medieval port which became a holiday resort during the eighteenth century. It was awarded it royal title \u201cRegis\u201d by Edward I in the late 13th century. The harbour, which became a haven for vessels in stormy weather, it protected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7,3],"tags":[858,547,857],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}