45-627: Lymington Pier railway station serves the harbour area of Lymington in Hampshire , England. It is 98 miles 15 chains (158.0 km) measured from London Waterloo and is the terminus of the Lymington Branch Line from Brockenhurst and provides a connection with ferry services to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight . It has one platform. The station is unstaffed but has a self-service ticket machine for ticket purchases. There are no toilets at
90-478: A Channel 5 programme, Lymington received the accolade of "best town on the coast" in the UK for living (ahead of Sandbanks ), for scenery, transport links and low crime levels. Lymington New Forest Hospital opened in 2007, replacing the earlier Lymington Hospital . This has a minor injuries unit but no accident and emergency facility. The nearest are at Southampton General Hospital , 16 miles (26 km) away, and
135-532: A Site of Special Scientific Interest known as Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary . To reach the end of the spit one can either catch the seasonal ferry from Keyhaven , or follow the footpath (part of the Solent Way ) along the top of the spit. The sea route past Hurst Spit can be hazardous to boats because the constriction to the tidal flow caused by the spit creates strong tidal streams, as well as spiky waves mixed with circular areas of flat sea caused by
180-501: A 20-hectare (49-acre) public park bequeathed to the people of Lymington in 1925 by Colonel Henry Douglas Rooke. The park includes formal gardens, a playground , a cricket ground and a sports field. The neighbourhood consists of a small southern triangle of residential and rural lanes, which include a manor house, church community hall, and All Saints' Church, Lymington. The church was built in 1909 by W. H. Romaine-Walker , architect of Danesfield House , Moreton Hall, Warwickshire , and
225-510: A nine-hole golf course, a rowing club, a community centre, a library, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery , two swimming pools (one the Lymington Open Air Sea Water Baths built in 1833), a sports centre, a small cinema/theatre, a Skatepark (for skateboards), several tennis courts, and some youth football pitches. There is also a pétanque terrain near St Thomas's church. Lymington Cricket Club was established in 1807 and plays in
270-682: A railway embankment." Fossils from the Barton Beds were at one time a common sight amongst the gravel, but are now rare. In the 1830s deposits of bitumen were also noted on the spit, and in 1840 there was even an attempt to establish a bitumen factory. The origin of the bitumen is unknown, but it may be that the spit accumulated natural floating deposits of bitumen. Hurst Spit supports an important community of saltmarsh plants especially sea purslane ( Halimione portulacoides ); glasswort ( Salicornia species); annual seablite ( Suaeda maritima ); and golden samphire ( Inula crithmoides ). Behind
315-649: A thriving shipbuilding industry, particularly associated with Thomas Inman, builder of the schooner Alarm , which famously raced the American yacht America in the 1851 America's Cup . Much of the town centre is Victorian and Georgian , with narrow cobbled streets in the area of the quay. In 1859 the Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of Mercy and Saint Joseph was built to a design by Joseph Hansom . Lymington particularly promotes stories about its smuggling . There are unproven stories of smugglers' tunnels running from
360-456: Is twinned with: An active programme of exchange visits is coordinated by the local Twinning Association. Hurst Spit Hurst Spit is a one-mile-long (1.6 km) shingle bank near the village of Keyhaven , at the western end of the Solent , on the south coast of England . The spit shelters an area of saltmarsh and mudflats known as Keyhaven and Pennington marshes . At the end of
405-574: Is Everton, about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the west of the town centre. Thanks to its coastal position, sunshine levels are high relative to the rest of Britain, and severe frost unusual. The lowest recorded temperature in 43 years of records was −11.1 °C (12.0 °F) in January 1963. The highest locally recorded temperature was 33.5 °C (92.3 °F) in June 1976. date=November 2011 date=November 2011 The town's leisure amenities include several parks,
450-504: Is a car ferry service operated by Wightlink . It is within the civil parish of Lymington and Pennington . The town has a large tourist industry, based on proximity to the New Forest and its harbour. It is a major yachting centre with three marinas . As of 2015, the parish of Lymington and Pennington had a population of 15,726. The earliest settlement in the Lymington area was around
495-587: Is a local market, one of the New Forest producers' markets, held at the Masonic hall once a month in the game season. There are several marine outfitters in the cobbled street leading down to the quay. Lymington has a wide range of shops and a large street market in the High Street, as well as three supermarkets: Waitrose , a small Tesco in the High Street, and a Marks and Spencer Food Hall. Local campaigns resulted in
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#1732884053098540-477: Is attracted there, being on the beach of an open pure sea". The inn building was demolished with expansion of the castle in the mid 19th century, but by the 1870s there was a new inn, called the Castle Inn, which was "kept for the accommodation of the troops and the crews of the numerous stone-dredging vessels, which carry away great quantities of the shingle from the beach to Portsmouth , Southampton etc." The inn
585-693: Is based in nearby Pennington. Lymington Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club that plays at the Sports Ground. The Third and Fourth XI play their home matches at Woodside Park. The club's first team compete in the Southern Premier Cricket League , which is the highest level of club cricket in Hampshire. Lymington has a rugby union club, Lymington Mariners RFC, whose two teams play at Woodside Park. It meets every Thursday evening for practice and most Saturday afternoons for tournament games in
630-478: Is thought to be a Middle English dialect word meaning "sandbank", which is derived from Old English "hyrst" indicating a hillock or eminence. Little is known about Hurst before the castle was built, although it seems to be mentioned in a document dated 1434 which refers to a wreck off "Hurst". Hurst Castle was built between 1541 and 1544 by Henry VIII as part of his network of coastal defences to protect England against French and Spanish invasion. Hurst Castle
675-596: The Hampshire region, and friendlies around the South of England. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian . Television signals are received from the Rowridge TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Solent on 96.1 FM, Heart South on 96.7 FM, Capital South on 103.2 FM, Easy Radio South Coast on 107.8 FM, Nation Radio South Coast on 106.0 FM and New Forest Hospital Radio, that broadcast local programming to patients from
720-460: The ITV children's show Worzel Gummidge was filmed in the town during the summer of that year. During filming a sudden wind blew the titanium dioxide that was being used as a replica of snow into homes, shops and businesses, causing damage and a large compensation bill for the producers, Southern Television . Lymington was occasionally featured in the 1980s BBC series Howards' Way . Lymington
765-530: The Iron Age hill fort known today as Buckland Rings . The hill and ditches of the fort survive, and archaeological excavation of part of the walls was carried out in 1935. The fort has been dated to around the 6th century BC. There is another supposed Iron Age site at nearby Ampress Hole . However, evidence of later settlement there (as opposed to occupation) is sparse before Domesday (1086). Lymington itself began as an Anglo-Saxon village. The Jutes arrived in
810-520: The Lymington Branch Line was operated as a "heritage" service using restored Class 421 4Cig trains . 50°45′29″N 1°31′44″W / 50.758°N 1.529°W / 50.758; -1.529 Lymington Lymington / ˈ l ɪ m ɪ ŋ t ən / is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent , in the New Forest district of Hampshire , England. The town faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight , to which there
855-524: The New Forest Hospital in the town. The Lymington Times and New Milton Advertiser is the town's local newspaper. Lymington bus depot is owned by Go South Coast . Numerous local services operate, as do routes to Bournemouth and Southampton . In the summer, the New Forest Tour serves the town with open-top buses. Lymington's two railway stations – Lymington Pier (the terminus ), on
900-744: The Royal Bournemouth Hospital , 14.5 miles (23.3 km) away. The main Anglican parish church is St Thomas's in the High Street. Lymington Town Hall , in Avenue Road, was opened in 1966. The northern neighbourhoods of the town are Buckland and Lower Buckland, the latter adjoining the Lymington River. However, to avoid confusion with Buckland, Portsmouth , also in Hampshire, many people refer to themselves and their businesses here solely as Lymington. The poet Caroline Anne Bowles (1786–1854)
945-594: The Tate Gallery extension , and a student of the High Victorian architect George Edmund Street . Normandy is a coastal hamlet by a very small dock , salterns and estuary . It includes the buildings Normandy Garth, Little Normandy and Normandy Farm. The last backs onto De La Warr House, an early 19th-century listed building . The high street has seen rapid change over the last few years, with an increasing presence of chain stores and coffee-shop franchises. There
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#1732884053098990-461: The 19th century. Since 1990 they have been operated by Wightlink , succeeding the nationalised Sealink on the route. The current fleet comprises three car ferries, which entered service in 2009: Wight Light , Wight Sky and Wight Sun . The service runs about once an hour from a dock south-east of the old town on the far side of the Lymington River . Lymington features in The Children of
1035-528: The New Forest by Captain Marryat , in the historical novels of the local writer Warwick Collins ( The Rationalist and The Marriage of Souls ), and in The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd . In Tom Clancy 's Patriot Games , a Wightlink ferry heading from the Lymington ferry terminal is intercepted and a prisoner extracted in heavy seas. Several men on board the ferry are murdered. The 1980 Christmas special of
1080-543: The Southern Premier and Hampshire Cricket leagues. The proximity of the New Forest makes Lymington a popular base for walking, cycling and riding. Lymington is famous for its sailing history, and in recent years has been home to the world-famous regattas such as the Royal Lymington Cup, Etchells Worlds, Macnamara's Bowl, and Source Regatta. The strong tides make it a challenging race track, and together with
1125-604: The area from the Isle of Wight in the 6th century and founded a settlement called Limentun . The Old English word tun means a farm or hamlet whilst limen is derived from the Ancient British word *lemanos meaning an elm tree. The town is recorded in Domesday as Lentune . About 1200, the lord of the manor, William de Redvers created the borough of New Lymington around the present quay and High Street, while Old Lymington comprised
1170-465: The cliffs further west. Although originally formed by natural processes, Hurst Spit has been declining in volume, probably since the 1940s when coast protection works in Christchurch Bay first began to interrupt the flow of the shingle towards the spit. In 1989 the spit was so weakened that it was danger of being permanently breached. A stabilisation scheme took place in 1996-7. This scheme rebuilt
1215-550: The east side of the river near the ferry terminal, and Lymington Town – are connected to the national rail network by a branch line to Brockenhurst . Services twice an hour are operated by South Western Railway . The A337 road links Lymington to Lyndhurst and the M27 motorway to the north, and to New Milton and the South East Dorset conurbation to the west. Ferries have run between Lymington and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight , since
1260-469: The old inns and under the High Street to the town quay. Lymington was among the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 . In 1932 it was extended to include Milton (previously an urban district), the parishes of Milford on Sea and Pennington , and parts of Lymington Rural District , so extending it along the coast to the edge of Christchurch . The borough of Lymington
1305-491: The rejection of proposals for the opening of branches of the Argos retail outlet, and in 2010 of the J D Wetherspoon pub chain. However, a second proposal by Wetherspoons in 2012 was successful and a pub named The Six Bells opened in 2013. Lymington, like the rest of the South of England, has a maritime climate of warm summers and mild winters. The nearest official Met office weather station for which online records are available
1350-576: The rest of the parish. He gave the town its first charter and the right to hold a market. The town became a parliamentary borough in 1585, returning two MPs until 1832, when its electoral base was expanded. Its representation was reduced to one member under the Second Reform Act of 1867 , and it was subsumed into the New Forest Division under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 . Lymington
1395-532: The shallow depth of the river has resulted in Lymington losing several regattas to the Central Solent, principally run from Cowes . Nevertheless, Thursday Evening Racing takes place with up to 100 boats registered to race every Thursday night during the summer, hosted by the Royal Lymington Yacht Club . Started in the 1990s, this has become increasingly popular. There are two active sailing clubs in
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1440-461: The shingle bank using dredged shingle, and saw the building of a new rock revetment utilising larvikite rocks shipped from Norway at the western end of the spit and near the castle. The spit has to be replenished from time to time, most notably in the aftermath of the 2013-14 UK winter storms when New Forest District Council had to rebuild and reinforce parts of the spit. The spit no longer has its original natural appearance and looks "more like
1485-418: The spit is Hurst Castle , an artillery fortress originally built on the orders of King Henry VIII , and much enlarged in the 19th century. Hurst Point Lighthouse was built on the end of Hurst Spit in the 1860s. Hurst Spit is a hook-shaped shingle spit which extends for 1.4 miles (2.25 km) from the Hampshire shore into the Solent towards the Isle of Wight . The spit forms a barrier which shelters
1530-467: The spit is an area of saltmarsh and mud flats known as Keyhaven and Pennington marshes . The marshes contain a variety of wildlife especially birds, invertebrates, and plant life. There are colonies of black-headed gulls and dunlins , and many wading birds including oystercatchers , ringed and grey plovers , and redshanks . Glanville fritillary butterflies have been reported on the spit probably only as wind blown individuals. The name "hurst"
1575-437: The station although there are toilets available at the nearby Wightlink ferry terminal. The station has a number of passenger shelters as well as information screens and modern help points located on the platform which has step-free access available to it. All services at Lymington Pier are operated by South Western Railway using Class 450 EMUs . The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: Until 22 May 2010,
1620-495: The town. The Royal Lymington Yacht Club, founded in the 1920s as Lymington River Sailing Club, has over 3,000 members and runs major keelboat and dinghy events. The Lymington Town Sailing Club, founded in 1946, hosts a popular Lymington Winter Series known as the Solent Circuit. Lymington has a non-League football club, Lymington Town F.C. , which plays at the sports ground. The children's football club, Lymington Sprites,
1665-460: The upwelling water. In addition a sand bar , known as The Trap, sticks out 60 m (200 ft) into the Solent just east of the round tower of Hurst Castle. Storms regularly uncover unexploded ordnance on the spit, some dating back more than a century. Soldiers stationed at the castle used to practice the firing of shells . The spit formed from loose flint pebbles which had been eroded from
1710-579: Was abolished on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972 , becoming an unparished area in the district of New Forest , with Charter Trustees . The area was subsequently divided into the four parishes of New Milton , Lymington and Pennington , Milford-on-Sea and Hordle . A new library was added in 2002. Due to changes in planning legislation, many older areas of the town have been redeveloped. Houses have been demolished and replaced with blocks of flats and retirement homes. In
1755-451: Was based near Portchester Castle and sent sick soldiers to Lymington or Eling Hospital. As well as Germans and Dutch, there were French émigrés and French regiments. They were raised to take part in the ill-fated Quiberon Invasion of France , from which few returned (contrast the Battle of Quiberon Bay , or Bataille des Cardinaux , a 1759 victory). From the early 19th century, Lymington had
1800-468: Was born at Buckland Manor and died at Buckland Cottage. Pennington is a village near Lymington, but is separated from the town by several schools with playing fields. Upper Pennington is a northern residential offshoot of Pennington, more rural in character, almost entirely surrounded by heath and farmland. Lymington yacht basin and mudflats make up the former docks area known as Waterford. Lower Pennington and Woodside lie adjacent to Woodside Park,
1845-475: Was established to defend the western entrance of the Solent. During the English Civil War the castle was occupied by parliamentary forces and at the end of 1648 Charles I was held prisoner in the castle. The castle was enlarged in the 1860s, and two large wing batteries were built to house heavy guns. Soldiers were stationed at Hurst Castle as recently as World War II . The first lighthouse at Hurst
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1890-558: Was famous for salt-making from the Middle Ages up to the 19th century. There was an almost continuous belt of salt workings along the coast toward Hurst Spit . In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Lymington possessed a military depot that included a number of foreign troops – mostly artillery but also several militia regiments. At the time of the Napoleonic Wars , the King's German Artillery
1935-424: Was still operating at the beginning of the 20th century. There was also a coastguard station "near the castle" in 1878 "with four men and a chief boatman", and there was a depot for " smacks employed in collecting from the adjacent coasts the septaria nodules, used in the manufacture of Roman cement ." A small dock , originally stone built, was constructed in the early 1850s, to aid the new building work. In
1980-426: Was the "High Light" – the free standing Hurst Point Lighthouse built on the end of Hurst Spit between 1865 and 1867. In the 18th century a small community of houses, including an inn, grew up just outside the castle, serving the needs of the soldiers, some of whom lodged in the houses with their families. The inn was called The Shipwright's Arms, and in 1808 it was said that "in the summer season, much company
2025-570: Was the Hurst Tower, sited to the south west of Hurst Castle, and lit for the first time on 29 September 1786. An additional and higher light - the High Lighthouse - was constructed in 1812. These lighthouses were dismantled and replaced by two new lighthouses built in the 1860s. The first was the "Low Light" built into the rear wall of the west wing of the castle, which was superseded by the adjacent iron lighthouse in 1911. The second lighthouse
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