Lymington is a port on the Solent, in the New Forest
district of Hampshire, England. It is to the east of the Bournemouth
conurbation, and faces Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight which is
connected to it by a car ferry, operated by Wightlink. The town has
a large tourist industry, based on proximity to the New Forest and
the harbour. It is a major yachting centre with a three marinas.
According to the 2001 census the Lymington urban area had a
population of about 14,000.
Members of the National Green
Leaf Tourism Scheme, a national pilot for sustainable tourism.
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excellent level of quality and comfort standard" throughout.
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English breakfast.10-15 mins walk to pub.5 mins by car to isle
of Wight ferry. Quiet area with lovely walks onto the common.
Mrs. Paula Farrell proprietor looks forward to
welcoming you to her home where she is able to offer you a
lovely double room with en-suite shower room. This delightful
room is on the ground floor and has colour television, tea and
coffee making facilitates and for the colder days full central
heating. Paula holds Food Hygiene Certificate and you can be
sure of a lovely breakfast, she will cater for all diets if
notice is given in advance.
You are welcome to bring your pets with
you at no extra charge.
More about Lymington in the New Forest
The town has many shops, catering for tourists
and sailing enthusiasts alike. There is a local market every
Saturday, which takes place in the main High Street. The market
is fairly typical for southern England, selling a selection of
cheap general household items, craft items and a selection of
food produce from the local area.
The earliest settlement in the Lymington area was at the Iron
Age fort at Buckland known as Buckland Rings. The hill and
ditches of this fort still remain.
Lymington itself began as an Anglo-Saxon village. The
Anglo-Saxons, probably Jutes, arrived in what is now South West
Hampshire in the 6th century. They founded a settlement called
limen tun. The Saxon word tun means a farm or hamlet. Limen is
believed to be a Celtic name meaning either elm river or
possibly, marshy river.
The town is recorded in the Domesday book of 1086 as "Lentune".
About 1200 the lord of the manor, William de Redvers gave the
town its first charter and the right to hold a market.
From the middle ages to the nineteenth century Lymington was
famous for making salt. This was done at the part of the town
now known as The Salterns.
During the hundred years war (throughout the 14th and 15th
centuries) the French attacked and burned Lymington twice. Once
in 1338 and again in 1370. In 1346 Lymington was required to
provide King Edward III with 9 ships and 159 men to fight the
French. The French attacked and burned the town for the third
time in 1545.
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century Lymington
possessed a military depot that included a number of foreign
troops. At the time of the Napoleonic War the Kings German
Legion was based here. As well as Germans and Dutch, there were
French ?igr?, and French regiments were raised to take part in
the ill fated Quiberon bay expedition (1795), from which few
returned.
From the late seventeenth century it had a thriving shipbuilding
industry. Much of the town centre is Victorian and Georgian,
with narrow cobbled streets, giving an air of quaintness. The
wealth of the town at the time is represented in its
architecture.
Lymington is particularly famous for its smuggling history, and
under the High Street are smuggler's tunnels which run from the
old inns to the town quay. These are no longer open to the
public, as they are deemed to be dangerous.
A beautiful, Georgian
market town, Lymington (population 14,330) is situated on the southern
edge of the New Forest, in between the towns of Southampton and Bournemouth and at the
western end of the Solent. The town is world renown as a sailing
resort; there are two large marinas Bethon and Haven and two sailing
clubs RLYC and Lymington Town. Close by the sailing clubs is an
open-air seawater bath that was built in 1833.
