The remaining
walks for 2009
August (Sundays and Wednesdays)
2nd, 11am, St Thomas’s Church - The Story of Lymington
5th, 7.30pm, Quay Slipway - Sea, Salt & Smuggling
9th, 11am, St Thomas’s Church - Pens & Personalities
12th, 7.30pm, Milford Village Green - The Story of Milford
16th, 11am, St Thomas’s Church - Wavy Walls
19th, 7.30pm, St Thomas’s Church - Courts & Alleyways
23rd, 11am, Quay Slipway - Sea, Salt & Smuggling
30th, 11am, St Thomas’s Church - The Story of Lymington
September (Sundays)
6th, 11am, St Thomas’s Church - Wavy Walls
13th, 11am, St Thomas’s Church - The Story of Lymington
20th, 11am, Milford Village Green - The Story of Milford
27th, 11am, Quay Slipway - Trains, Tolls & Tributes
The Story of Lymington
This walk takes you through the heart of the town and follows Lymington’s
journey from Norman times when it was a planned new town, with a
thriving port, through to the present day centre for tourism, sailing
and retirement. Much of the original Norman layout survives
but with the prosperity of Georgian times the timber-framed houses
were replaced in the fashionable style of the day using brick. Much
of the wealth in the town at that period came from the salt industry
and as you walk down the present High Street you will see some of
the elegant Georgian buildings which survive today.
This walk begins at St Thomas’s Church and ends at the Town
Quay
Sea, Salt and Smuggling
Take this walk along the waterfront and find out how important the
river has always been to the town of Lymington. From a
time when the Quay was a very rough working area with sailing
ships bringing coal in to fuel the salt making industry and then
shipping the salt all over the world. Another source of
wealth in the town up until the Victorian era was smuggling and
Daniel Defoe found the town ‘teeming with smugglers and
all sorts of desperados’. In Victorian times Lymington
was also a fashionable spa for sea water bathing and its renaissance
as a place of leisure and enjoyment began.
This walk begins at the Town Quay and ends at the Royal Lymington
Yacht Club, Bath Road
Courts and Alleyways
This walk gives you the opportunity to explore some of the interesting
nooks and crannies of the High Street and find out what domestic
life was like in Lymington in days past. Until 1745 the
butchers still killed their animals in the street Shambles and
living at the bottom of Quay Hill after a heavy downpour was
probably not a pleasant experience !
This walk begins at St Thomas’s Church and ends in the High
Street
Pens and Personalities
From Dennis Wheatley’s satanic novels to Captain Marryat’s ‘Children
of the New Forest’ Lymington has more links with books
and their writers than you might think. Come and hear about some
of the literati of Lymington and discover where they gained the inspiration
to put pen to paper.
This walk begins at St Thomas’s Church and ends in the High
Street
Wavy Walls
Your guide will take you on a walk in the leafy south side of Lymington
and point out some interesting architectural features including
the famous Crinkle Crankle Walls, also known as Serpentine or
Wavy Walls. You will also hear tales of murder and mayhem
at a time when the inhabitants of Lymington were outnumbered
by foreign soldiers.
This walk begins at St Thomas’s Church and ends on the Town
Quay
Buckland Rings
Take a stroll out of the ‘Manor of Lymington’ along the
old highway where the stage coaches would have travelled to the Iron
Age fort, there you can scramble up the ramparts of the ancient earthworks
hidden in the woods. Finish at the Tollhouse Inn where you will hear
how road tax isn’t such a recent thing after all. A lovely
walk on a summer day or evening.
This walk begins at The Borough Arms, Avenue Road and ends at the
Tollhouse Inn, Buckland
Trains, Tolls and Tributes
This walk follows the river inland from the Quay. Visit the pretty
little Victorian railway station before you cross to Walhampton
via the old Toll Bridge. In the 1700’s the construction
of the causeway threatened to destroy the livelihood of the people
of Lymington. When they failed to prevent it being built
it changed life on the river forever. On the far side of
the river stroll up through woodland to the memorial to a perfect
man.
This walk begins on the Town Quay and ends at The Wagon & Horses,
Walhampton
The Story of Milford
Meet on the village green and take a stroll through the village
of Milford on Sea and its lovely wooded Pleasure Grounds while
your guide relates how the sleepy hamlet of Milford changed its
name and tried to rival genteel Eastbourne. Hear the story
of the string of Pearls seven yards long before you end up at the
Westover Hotel on the cliff top.
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