 There was a continuous line of salt works along the five miles of coastline from Lymington to Hurst Spit.The greatest concentration being in an area of two miles by half a mile wide situated in Oxey and Pennington marshes.In "Pennington Remembered – A Pictorial Recollection", Joan Stephens recounts that "‘there was a time that this part of Pennington was far from beautiful for.. the great local industry was the manufacture of salt.