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Category: Family Fun New Years Seasonal
Event Tags: Lyme Regis Events
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Date: Sun, 1st January 2023
Time: 11:30am - 2:00pm
Location: Various Locations in Lyme Regis, Lyme Regis
Booking Required: Advised
Price: £1.00
New Year’s Day Duck Race
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New Year’s Day Duck Race, Lyme Regis
Everyone goes a bit quackers at midday on New Year’s Day as hundreds of individually numbered bright yellow toy ducks are released into the river Lim at Higher Mill Flats where they hurtle downstream in a mad paddle towards the finish line at Jordan Flats. The bath time companions initially negotiate the relatively calm waters by Windsor Terrace before the fearless racers gather pace after descending the potentially treacherous weir at Woodmead Road bridge. They wind their way around the bend at Lymbrook Cottages, before riding out the bumps and dips along the stretch by Jericho with some final jostling for position with the finish line in sight.
Lyme Regis town crier Alan Vian will officially start the race by Higher Mill Flats, near Woodmead Bridge, Windsor Terrace.
Supporters can cheer on the ducks from the river bank until the finish further down the river at Jordan Flats.
There will be a host of cash prizes for the first, second and third ducks over the finish line and a bonus prize for the last duck that manages to negotiate the river course.
Ducks cost £1 and can be purchased on the day from 11.15am or online (see link above).
Location: Higher Mills Flats , Windsor Terrace, Lyme Regis
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Various Locations in Lyme Regis (View more Events at this Location)Lyme Regis, Lyme Regis, England, DT7 3HR United Kingdom
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