Business events in Lymington

A market street since 1257

Lymington's High Street was laid out for trading. The town council's history of the market says the street was deliberately made wide enough to hold a market regularly, and that the market was granted its charter on 12 June 1257. It still runs: the council's visitor page says the Charter Market takes place every Saturday on the High Street, from about 8am to 3pm depending on the weather.

That matters if you are coming for a Saturday event. The council asks people not to park on the High Street between 6am and 6pm on Saturdays, and on market days the street can only be reached through Gosport Street. It points instead to the eight car parks within walking distance, all with charges.

Ferry town on the forest coast

The ONS counted 14,865 people in the Lymington built-up area at the 2021 Census. Lymington is in New Forest district and has its own town council, Lymington and Pennington. Business counts are published for the district, not the town: the ONS business register counted 7,855 enterprises across New Forest district in 2026, a figure that covers the whole district rather than the town.

The town is also a ferry port. Wightlink runs from Lymington Ferry Port on Undershore Road to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, a crossing of around 40 minutes that carries foot passengers and vehicles from motorbikes to lorries. Wightlink itself describes Lymington as a market town in the New Forest, not far from Southampton.

Getting here by train

Lymington has two stations, both managed by South Western Railway: Lymington Town, on Mill Lane, with 133 car park spaces listed by National Rail, and Lymington Pier, whose National Rail page lists a port among its transport links. National Rail rates Lymington Town step-free to all platforms, some routes by ramp or street.

Events listed here have met at The Nici New Forest on South Baddesley Road. For more around the forest, see Brockenhurst, New Milton, Lyndhurst and Ringwood, or the whole of the New Forest.