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Article: There's no place like Lymington IN the first of an occasional series - Home Ground - in which some of our regular contributors write about the place in the world where they feel most at home, best-selling author Leslie Thomas describes Lymington - a town he likes so much he has finally moved there. england.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 11, 2001
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Byline: LESLIE THOMAS
fROM my bed in the six o'clock darkness of a winter morning, I can hear it . . . the little train clanking over the harbour bridge on its two-minute journey from Lymington Town station to the Isle of Wight ferry.
It runs five miles from Brockenhurst across the New Forest to the Hampshire coast and they call it the Lyming-ton Flyer.
It is only a few weeks since I came to live here, but I have known the grey, steep town beside its level estuary for years. At last I found a house I wanted, looking out over the opaque harbour arranged with moored boats biding their winter time. Every half an hour the sturdy ferry makes its ...