. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . Minstead Church: The Three-decker Pllpit LYMINGTON BOROUGH LYMINGTON BOROUGH Lentune (xi cent.) ; Leminton, Lyminton,Lymington (xiii cent.). The quiet town of Lymington lies on the westernbank of the Lymington River, about 2 miles from theSolent. The mud flats lining the little creek lieexposed except at high tide, and behind them is alevel sweep of land rising to the west ; the townstretches from the river up the hill. The originalborough would s^em to have been a strip of landlying by the river bank and its wharf, and probablyincluded the High
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . Minstead Church: The Three-decker Pllpit LYMINGTON BOROUGH LYMINGTON BOROUGH Lentune (xi cent.) ; Leminton, Lyminton,Lymington (xiii cent.). The quiet town of Lymington lies on the westernbank of the Lymington River, about 2 miles from theSolent. The mud flats lining the little creek lieexposed except at high tide, and behind them is alevel sweep of land rising to the west ; the townstretches from the river up the hill. The originalborough would s^em to have been a strip of landlying by the river bank and its wharf, and probablyincluded the High Street and the land to the evidence of this it would appear that when theborough boundaries were extended in the middle ofthe 13th century the extension lay on the northside of the church, which lies at the west end of theHigh Street, a long wide way leading up the hill at. right angles to the stream. Here there are still somehouses with good 18th-century fronts, but the oldTown Hall has gone,1 and with it the Blind Houseand the permanent booths that stood in a row downthe middle of the street. Here must have stood in1675 the Naggs Head, the George, the WhiteLion and the Bugle *—one of them doubtless thattavern at which scandal said the vicar of Boldreplayed tables one day while the congregation vainlywaited in church for Parallel to the HighStreet on either side there ran a lane, each connectedwith the main road by a transverse way crossing justabove the Town Hall. Probably the original TownHall was that belonging to the manor, and describedin 1299-1 300 as the hall with a garden containing?| acre, and worth 7/. per annum saving Inthe reign of Edward III it was spoken of as a housewith a little close used for holding courts, and worthnothing beyond In the 17th century thehall had come to be regarded as the property of
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