Charmouth

We look north-westwards up The Street to the Coach and Horses Hotel (left centre), where the Victorian landlord was James Ingram. Charmouth House is further up the hill (centre). The shopkeeper Edward Archer Vince (centre right) ran the archetypal general store, and could claim to supply just about everything. The sign lists ‘linen and woollens, clothing, hats, fancy articles, boots and shoes, groceries and ironmongery’.
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".

We are looking eastwards from the blocked mouth of the River Char, which ends its journey to the sea by having to break through a ridge of shingle (right). The coastal footpath from Charmouth (left) crosses to a shelter on Evan’s Cliff (centre), but is then subject to recurrent problems as it crosses the landslip zone at Cain’s Folly (central skyline). Here a Royal Air Force coastal radar station slipped down the cliffs on 14 May 1942. Its concrete and brick remains are entombed in the undercliff. The distant cliff, towards Bridport, is Thorncombe Beacon (towards top right).
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".

The Saxons and the Danes fought two battles near to Charmouth, though the village's history recalls a later defeat, for Charles II passed this way as a fugitive after the Battle of Worcester. Charmouth's beach is much loved by fossil hunters.
An extract from from"Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories".

Until the construction of its bypass, most motorists sped through Charmouth on the busy road between Lyme Regis and Bridport, scarcely noticing this charming old village where Charles II hid after the Battle of Worcester.
An extract from from"Dorset Living Memories".

The turnpike road through Charmouth was run by the Bridport District Trust from 1764 to 1877. For several decades in the next century it carried the A35 Folkestone to Honiton trunk road. The lorry climbing the hill belonged to Grabham’s Transport. This view is south-eastwards, towards Bridport, from Gear’s Garage with its AA and RAC signs (far right). L M de Ville ran the Queen’s Armes Private Hotel (right) in the mid 20th century, and Edward Hunter was across the street in the George Hotel (left). The early 16th-century Queen’s Armes is described by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as ‘an unusually complete example of a small late medieval house’. King Charles II spent a sleepless night here on 22 September 1651, disguised as a servant, during his escape from the Battle of Worcester to exile in France.
An extract from from"Lyme Regis Photographic Memories".