Really as an aside to this discussion, I may have discovered the originals of Farthing Fee and Mariners. If you get the bus from Axminster east along the Dorset coast, you pass a road called Penny Plot as you come into Lyme Regis. A hundred yards or so further on is a hotel called Mariners. Google DT7 3NE for Penny Plot, and http://www.hotellymeregis.co.uk/ for Mariners.