09/07/26 - Charmouth to Lyme Regis, for the Brewery Tap

Diversion but Destination Remains the SameToday's route was downloaded from the Cicerone book "Walking the Jurassic Coast". The good thing about the Cicerone books is that they publish regular online updates. As you would expect - this area has a lot more updates than others. The most unstable cliffs in the country.Leading a group walk for five, it was a good job I made a visual inspection from Charmouth beach of the short route to Lyme Regis. The cliffs are now terraces, collapsing in stages. The footpath that would have crossed Black Ven and the Spittles is no more.The SWCP - which we eventually followed - has been routed further inland. It requires more road walking than we would like but there is a pavement. And annoying golfers at Lyme Regis Golf Club is always to be encouraged.Off the road and into the woods, next to Lyme Regis Golf CourseEventually, the SWCP crosses the fairwaysThere's a stretch of path that is labelled on the OS Map as the Wessex Ridgeway. On the ground, it…