Lyme or LYME may refer to: *

Lyme disease Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a vector-borne disease caused by the '' Borrelia'' bacterium, which is spread by ticks in the genus '' Ixodes''. The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema ...

, an infectious disease carried by ticks caused by bacteria of the genus ''Borrelia''

Places

United Kingdom

* Lyme, an alternative name of Lyme Handley, a civil parish in Cheshire ** Lyme Park, an estate in Cheshire *

Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Heri ...

, a town in Dorset commonly known as Lyme **

Lyme Bay Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel off the south coast of England. The south western counties of Devon and Dorset front onto the bay. The exact definitions of the bay vary. The eastern boundary is usually taken to be Portland Bill on th ...

, an area of the English Channel * Lyme Brook, tributary stream of the River Trent, Staffordshire * Forest of Lyme, a historic area of forest covering parts of Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire

United States

Lyme, Connecticut Lyme is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, situated on the eastern side of the Connecticut River. The population was 2,352 at the 2020 census. Lyme is the eponym of Lyme disease. History In February 1665, the portion of th ...

, a town in southeastern Connecticut, the namesake of Lyme disease **

Old Lyme, Connecticut Old Lyme is a coastal town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The main street of the town, Lyme Street, is a historic district with several homes once owned by sea captains. Lyme Academy of Fine Arts is located in Old Lyme and ther ...

, a neighboring town ** East Lyme, Connecticut, a neighboring town * Lyme, New Hampshire, a town in western New Hampshire * Lyme, New York, a town in New York along the Lake Ontario shoreline * Lyme Township, Huron County, Ohio, a small town in northern Ohio

Other places

* Lyme Park, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa

Ships

English ship Lyme (1654) English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ...

, 52-gun third rate Speaker-class frigate built at Portsmouth, launched in 1654 * HMS ''Lyme'', any of several vessels of the British Royal Navy * RFA ''Lyme Bay'' (L3007), a landing ship dock of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary *

Lyme-class frigate The ''Lyme'' class were a class of two 24-gun sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. They served during the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. They were built to the draught of a French privateer named ''Le Tygre'', wh ...

, class of two 24-gun sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy

People

* David Lyme (born 1966), also known as Jordi Cubino, a Catalan singer, songwriter, and model

Other uses

LYME (software bundle) LYME and LYCE are software stacks composed entirely of free and open-source software to build high-availability heavy duty dynamic web pages. The stacks are composed of: * Linux, the operating system; * Yaws, the web server; * Mnesia or Couc ...

, a solution stack consisting of Linux, Yaws, Mnesia, and Erlang * Lyme Art Association, arts organization established in 1914, with roots going back to 1902 * Lyme-grass or Leymus arenarius