Buckler's Hard, in the New Forest

Visited Buckler's Hard on the Beaulieu River that follows into The Solent and is part of the Beaulieu Estate. Shipbuilding commenced in the early eighteenth century.

Henry Adams, a master shipwright, was sent from Deptford Dockyard to Buckler's Hard in 1744 by the Admiralty to oversee the building. Over the following sixty years, Adams would supervise the building of 43 Royal Navy ships, including three that fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Horatio Nelson's favourite ship HMS Agamemnon.

During World War II, the village was used to build motor torpedo boats, and the river was a base for hundreds of landing craft for the Normandy invasion, Operation Overlord.

We had a beer in the Master Builders hotel and later. Tea and scones at the Captain's table.

Quick look around Lymington and drive through the New Forest along Ornamental drive via the Boulderwood deer sanctuary.Read more