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Lymington
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The most pleasant point of access for the Isle of Wight is
LYMINGTON
, a sheltered haven which has become one of the busiest leisure harbours on the south coast. Rising from the quay area, the old town is full of cobbled streets and Georgian houses and has one unusual building - the partly thirteenth-century church of
St Thomas the Apostle
, with a cupola-topped tower built in 1670.
Information is available in summer from the local visitor centre in New Street, off the High Street (May-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm; Oct-April Mon-Sat 10am-4pm; tel 01590/689000). Places to stay in town include Dolphins , 6 Emsworth Rd (tel 01590/676108; ?40-50), which rents out bikes and offers use of a chalet by the beach, and Wheatsheaf House , Gosport Lane (tel 01590/679208; ?60-70), a quaint listed building offering two rooms, "Paris" and "Venice", themed accordingly. For snacks , try the Jack in the Basket , 7 St Thomas St, or head for one of Lymington's excellent pubs : the Chequers on Ridgeway Lane, on the west side of town; the Bosun's Chair , on Station Road, and the harbourfront Ship Inn , which has seats looking over the water.
Signposted two miles east of Lymington, the
Sammy Miller Museum
, in New Milton (daily 10am-4.30pm; ?3.50) gives classic motorcycles the "Beaulieu" treatment. Many of the once-eminent British marques from Ariel to Vincent are displayed, as well as several acclaimed trials bikes ridden by Sammy Miller himself, one of Britain's most successful trials riders. Other useful information
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