Lyme Regis Harbour and the Cobb
The Cobb, the old stone harbour wall of Lyme Regis, and the moorings it shelters, on a live webcam in Dorset.
About this view
Lyme Regis harbour lies in the curve of the Cobb, the stone breakwater that has sheltered boats on this stretch of the Dorset coast since the Middle Ages, and this live cam looks over the moorings inside it. The harbour sits 23 miles north-west of Portland Bill and 30 miles north-east of Brixham, at the western end of the county.
It is a small working harbour: 246 drying moorings, most of them let to private boats, and 34 commercial moorings for fishing boats and passenger boats carrying fewer than 12 people, so at low tide much of the fleet settles on the sand. The coast either side is the Jurassic Coast, where Mary Anning found her fossils in the early nineteenth century.
Lyme Regis keeps UK time, UTC+0 in winter and UTC+1 in summer. The harbour's summer season runs from 1 April to 30 September; the Cobb stays open all year, and on a winter storm day the waves break right over its outer wall.
