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Pennington, Hampshire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pennington, Hampshire

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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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Best Pennington, Hampshire places to visit

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Pennington, Hampshire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Pennington, Hampshire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Pennington, Hampshire’s information audio spots:

Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes are three saltmarsh areas in Hampshire. The marshes lie behind Hurst Spit and fall within the Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest. The haven outpost of Milford-on-Sea sits to the west, the village of Pennington to the north and Lymington to the northeast.

Milford on Sea Milford on Sea, often hyphenated as Milford-on-Sea, is a large village and civil parish on the Hampshire coast. The parish had a population of 4,660 at the 2011 census. The western cliffs are accessed by flights of steps and have car parks with facilities.

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