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Pennington, Hampshire history

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Prehistoric (500,000 BC – AD42)

Coastal Heritage Project recorded the variety of archaeology found along the New Forest coast . New Forest National Park Authority with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage, Crown Estate, Hampshire County Council and Exxon Mobil based at Fawley .

Early Historic (AD 43 – AD 409)

Two stone carved heads from this period were once found at Lower Farm in Pennington . However, no settlements are known except those at nearby Buckland and Ampress .

Medieval (AD 410 – 1539)

Excavations at Manor Farm in Lower Pennington found evidence of medieval settlement . Hearths, ditches gullies and post holes were found in the site .

Yaldhurst

The village of Yaldhurst is mentioned in the Domesday Book but it goes back even earlier than that . With Highcliff, Beckley and Hinton, it formed the New Forest ‘Hundred’ The division of the County in Saxon times was supposed to contain a hundred families .

The Manors of Pennington

Pennington is now a separate ward within the New Forest district of Hampshire . It was for centuries a separate manor, Pennington, which was once a manor .

Local Government Evolution

Milford and Pennington Parish Council was created in 1894 and a separate Pennington Council in 1911 . In 1932, the separate Pennington parish was absorbed by Lymington Borough .

Mills

Two medieval mills at Efford and Gordleton still exist as places and names . The mills were built in medieval times and still exist today as places or names .

The Church and the Ecclesiastical Parish

There was also a chantry chapel at Pennington, the earliest known record of which dates from 1285 . The first parish church in Pennington was erected in 1839 . The church was replaced with the current building around 1858–60 .

Saltworks

For most of the 18th century Pennington & Lymington were the main producers of sea salt in the country . It was an industry that had existed along these shores for hundreds of years, from at least 1217 and possibly dating back to Roman times .

Smuggling

Up to the mid nineteenth century (c. 1845) smuggling was one of Pennington’s more lucrative industries . The smuggling industry is one of the most lucrative in the world .

World War One, The Great War

In 1914 Pennington was a small village of about 809 people living in about 202 houses . Of this small number 94 men were serving in the Army or Royal Navy . Given conscription, by the end of the war the number would have arisen to about 160 men in uniform .

  

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