During the 1700’s Lymington and the New Forest coast became the centre of salt production on the south coast following an industrial approach to producing salt, making use of the flat coastline and double tides. A continuous line of salt works occupied the 5 miles of coastline from Lymington to Hurst Spit as well as large areas of the Beaulieu River bank and Southampton Water shore. By the late 18th century, there were 149 salt pans functioning along the Solent. These mainly consisted of large areas of evaporation ponds, wind pumps to move the concentrated saline solution to coal fired boiling houses containing metal pans to complete the process of making the salt crystals.
In this model created following scrub clearance you can see the old canal, docks, ponds, banks & raised areas
Find out more on New Forest Knowledge: https://nfknowledge.org/contributions/new-forest-salterns-an-overview/
Photos taken by New Forest National Park Authority using DroneDeploy. Models produced by NFNPA using Agisoft software.
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