Until the end of the 18th century, there was a continuous line of salt works along the coastline from Lymington to Hurst Spit, making it the biggest area of sea salt production in the country. The salt workings (variously called salt pans or salterns) included evaporating ponds, boiling houses, wind pumps and docks for transporting coal and salt. The salt trade died in the early 1800s.

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All this area is so different to how it would have looked in the 17th/18th century. This would have been a bussling industrial area, with building and pumphouses, hore and carts, and boats all working in the salt extraction industry.

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Location: Lymington And Pennington, New Forest, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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