This is Anning Road, named after Lyme's pioneer of science, Mary Anning.

However, in her time there was only here a footpath across fields. During the Second World War, the field was the site of a tented camp for American soldiers, with Nissen huts as their mess halls and cookhouse. The road is said to have been laid by German prisoners. At the end of the war, in 1945, houses started to be built, and the road now forms the lower edge of what might be called New Lyme, a district of twentieth-century houses that fills a triangle of hillside, looking down on the older parts along the river. It is the district that, seen from the opposite hillside, forms a rather ugly litter of white buildings. If you have turned into it, you must be on your way to visit friends in perhaps Queen's Walk or Henry's Way, rather than to explore old Lyme with us. Goodbye! (Or back to the beginning.)