Church Lane, Lymington - 22 of 52 pictures
 
 
 
 
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The Wavy Walls of Lymington

Hanoverian soldiers constructed this wavy wall at the beginning of the 19th century; they were in exile from the Napoleon wars and lived in Church lane.
They built the wall in a style that was then common in Northern Germany, the wavy shape gives the wall extra strength and can be built with only a single brick width.
After this French prisoners of war were responsible for building many more wavy walls in Lymington and surrounding areas.

There are also wavy walls on the other side of the road; these were built be the author Dennis Wheatley who lived at Grove Place (demolished in 1969)

   



 
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