Occasional Magazine Vol.5 No.3 (September 1938)
A Brief Account of Lymore by [Dr.] Peyton T. B. Beale. Currently [1938] there are only a few houses in the hamlet of Lymore, which is 1½ miles north of Milford and lies either side of a valley. This contains Lymore Lane and the Lymore Brook and extends from Cox’s Bridge to Agarton. Around 1760 Lymore Lane was the main road from Everton to Keyhaven, thence to Milford. What is known of Lymore houses, past and present, and their occupants is given. Particularly described are thatched cottages with their adjacent orchards and bread ovens. Their cob walls were made of loam, clay and gravel from the local pit with or without straw or rushes incorporated. There is an important underground stream beneath this gravel pit and notable springs of water below Lymore Lane. The gravel pit and its underlying clay has yielded prehistoric flints and fossil shells. Lymore sees plentiful species of birds and animals and there are many wild flowers. There is a footbridge over the Brook called Kitch’s Bridge. A lane is mentioned called Lymore Alley that leads to the former site of a kiln producing lime for the farm fields. A reputed windmill nearby cannot be confirmed. The author owns Lymore End built about 1914 in the style of a Portuguese villa with a thatched roof. Opposite was an old marl pit from which clay used to be dug for spreading on the fields. He turned this pit single-handedly into a wild water garden open to the public in the mid-1920s.
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