Past the old London Inn, the road becomes twistier and narrower; the houses date back to the seventeenth century.

        Something that isn't apparent is how close the road already is to the edge of a cliff. It feels as if still gliding down coastward; actually it has become parallel to the side of a bay that bites in to the left.
        You may notice on the left the steep front of the church (St. Michael's), also a path up its left side; and, opposite, an even narrower street slipping off (Monmouth Street). But you probably keep on down Church Street, which until 1900 was called Butter Market. It had been a real street market, choked with transactions of dairy produce, until in 1759 the paving of the road began to bring wheeled traffic this way into Lyme.