Photo: Jim Osley (CC BY-SA 2.0)
A self-guided audio tour of Lyme Regis and the fossil hunter Mary Anning, born here in 1799. It starts at the museum on the site of her family's house, then the Town Mill on the Lym and the Coombe Street chapel where she was baptised, now Dinosaurland. At St Michael's she is buried in the churchyard on the slipping cliff, with a window paid for in part by the Geological Society, and nearby Denise Dutton's statue of 2022 looks out over the cliffs where she found her ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur. Then Broad Street, where she kept her shop and Jane Austen lodged in 1804, Marine Parade, the gardens built on a landslip, Belmont House, Eleanor Coade's showcase and later John Fowles's home, the Cobb, where Louisa Musgrove falls in Persuasion, and Monmouth Beach, where the Duke of Monmouth landed in 1685, with its ammonite pavement at low tide.
11 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 31 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 11 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Lyme Regis Museum, Town Mill, Dinosaurland and the Coombe Street chapel.
St Michael the Archangel's Church, Mary Anning's statue and Church Cliffs, Broad Street.
Marine Parade, Langmoor and Lister Gardens, Belmont House, The Cobb, Monmouth Beach.
Built in 1901 to 1902 on the site of the house where Mary Anning was born and the family fossil trade was carried on.
The cliff-top church where Mary Anning is buried, with a memorial window of 1850.
Denise Dutton's bronze of 2022, with her hammer and her dog Tray, above the cliffs where she dug out her first ichthyosaur.
Where Mary Anning kept her fossil shop from 1826, and where Jane Austen lodged in 1804.
The curved breakwater first named in 1328, and the setting of Louisa Musgrove's fall in Persuasion.
Where the Duke of Monmouth landed in 1685, with an ammonite pavement uncovered around low tide.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 11 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 11 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Lyme Regis — Mary Anning, the Cobb and the Jurassic Coast, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
11 narration points, including Lyme Regis Museum, St Michael the Archangel's Church, Mary Anning's statue and Church Cliffs, Langmoor and Lister Gardens and The Cobb. That is about 22 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~2½ hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 11 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.