Walk · Dorset

Ware Cliffs and the Undercliff, Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis

3.6MILES

1h 45mON FOOT

145mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 67% 33% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 55%Lane & track 12%Road with traffic 33%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Holmbush car park, Pound Street, above the town centre

Parking

Pay and display, around 200 spaces, the biggest in Lyme; full by 10.30am on summer weekends and the town has no free alternative

Directions to the start →

A 3.6-mile loop out of Lyme over Ware Cliffs to the edge of the Undercliff, back along Marine Parade and the Cobb: an hour and three quarters of grassy field paths, a set of steep steps below Underhill Farm and a mile of hard promenade. Start from Holmbush car park on Pound Street, pay and display and the largest in town, which still fills by mid-morning in August. Leads are compulsory the whole seafront stretch under the town PSPO, the Ware Cliffs fields are usually grazed, and dogs are banned outright from Front Beach between 1 May and 30 September, so the sea swim has to wait for Monmouth Beach shingle.

THE SMALL PRINTLyme Regis PSPO: dogs on a lead of no more than 2 metres all year on Marine Parade, the Cobb, Cobb Gate car park, the harbour and sea walls, Gun Cliff Walk and Langmoor and Lister Gardens. Dogs are not allowed on Front Beach 1 May to 30 September; on a lead there 1 October to 30 April.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DORSET

GRID · 50.7238, -2.9424

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.LYMEREGISTOWNCOUNCIL.GOV.UK/DOG-CONTROLS

Ware Cliffs and the Undercliff, Lyme Regis

House rules, decoded

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