Just a mile from Uplyme, Devon, is Lyme (the original name of this pretty place) now known as Lyme Regis which is in the county of Dorset. The row above is thought to contain Jane Austin's model for the house to which Captain Wentworth carried the unconscious Louisa Musgrove after her dramatic fall on the Cobb (out of sight on the right) in "Persuasion". |