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Lympne
Lympne is a village on the former shallow-gradient sea cliffs above the expansive agricultural plain of Romney Marsh in Kent. The settlement forms an L shape stretching from Port Lympne Zoo via Lympne Place facing Lympne Industrial Park then via the main settlement to Newingreen in the north, centred west of Folkestone, west of Hythe and ESE of Ashford.
==History==
In Roman times Lympne was known as Portus Lemanis, from which (or from the British eponym of which) the English name is derived in identical written form to one of its Middle English written recorded forms. It lay at the end of the Roman road from Canterbury, known today as Stone Street. It had a Saxon Shore fort, and, according to a fifth-century source was garrisoned by a regiment originally raised in Tournai in northern Gaul.〔''Notitia Dignitatum Occidentis'', XXVIII, ed. A. W. Byvanck, ''Excerpta Romana. De bronnen der romeinsch geschiedenis van Nederland'', t. I, La Haye, 1931, p571.〕 Its remains are at the bottom of the south-facing cliffs; they lie in private land and cannot be visited, though a reasonable view may be obtained from a public footpath above. In Anglo-Saxon times the fort was given the name "Stutfall", meaning "fold in which a stud, or herd, is kept".〔Glover, J., ''The Place Names of Kent'', Batsford, 1976, "Stutfall Castle". Cf. Ekwall, E., ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names'' (4th edition), Oxford University Press, 1960, "stod" (p. 444).〕 One of the oldest houses in the village is The Sanctuary; parts of the building date back to 1774.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Sanctuary, Lympne )〕
From 1923 onwards Lympne Aerodrome was home to the Lympne light aircraft trials and air races. In the 1930s it was the starting point for several long distance record flights, including a solo one to Cape Town by Amy Johnson in 1932, and also ones by her later-to-be husband Jim Mollison. Jean Batten later flew from Lympne to Darwin, beating Johnson's long-distance record, in 1934. In the post-war years the world's first air car-ferry service was operated by Silver City Airways between Lympne and Le Touquet. The airport has now been closed and turned into an industrial estate.
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