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Museum
National Motor Museum
Cars and motorcycles from pioneering vehicles to Formula 1 cars and land speed record breakers, on the Beaulieu estate.
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A mini guide to
Beaulieu and Lymington: things to do
Places worth your time in Beaulieu and Lymington
Top places
Things to do in Beaulieu and Lymington
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Historic house
Palace House
Montagu family home at Beaulieu, where costumed guides show what life was like in Victorian times; included in the Beaulieu ticket.
Ruins
Beaulieu Abbey
Ruins of a Cistercian abbey founded by King John in 1203 to 1204, with the cloister and a herb garden.
Historic village
Buckler's Hard
Georgian hamlet on the Beaulieu River where ships for Nelson's navy were built; museum and reconstructed cottages.
Garden
Exbury Gardens
Rothschild woodland garden of 200 acres with rhododendrons, azaleas and a steam railway; closed for winter except Christmas events.
Country park
Lepe Country Park
A mile of beach on the Solent at the mouth of the Beaulieu River, with Operation Overlord remains and a café.
Lake
Hatchet Pond
Forestry England calls it the New Forest's largest body of fresh water, and one of the UK's most important ponds for wildlife.
Museum
St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery
Local museum and art gallery in Lymington about the town and the New Forest, reopened in 2017 after refurbishment.
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Town
Lymington
Port town on the Lymington River and a yachting centre with three marinas; ferries cross to Yarmouth.
Photo credits
- Beaulieu and Lymington (area photo): Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- National Motor Museum: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Palace House: David Gearing, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Beaulieu Abbey: Adam lebaigue, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Buckler's Hard: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Exbury Gardens: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lepe Country Park: John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Hatchet Pond: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery: Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, source
- Lymington: Charlesdrakew (talk), Public domain, source
- Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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