Stepping back in time: a historic walk along Dorset's Jurassic Coast

A water-taxi transfer reshapes a Dorset classic into a circular Jurassic Coast hike from West Bay to Lyme Regis. The walk begins inland, then returns to the shoreline for a 10-mile route that pairs sea history with changing geology. A rigid inflatable boat takes hikers from West Bay while the skipper points out wreck-studded Lyme Bay seabeds, including HMS Formidable, torpedoed on New Year’s Day 1915 with fewer than 200 survivors out of 750. The route also recalls World War II staging for D-day and the Battle of Lyme Bay during Exercise Tiger. At Lyme Regis, the Cobb and film history surface before the return.