parts of different centuries between these and was restored including by English architect J.P. St Aubyn, having monuments separately listed in the grounds to the Wooly and Knatchbull families. The castle has an adjoining medieval wellhead. The structure was restored and saw additions in 1907 and 1911–12 by Robert Lorimer, Arts and Crafts Scottish architect. Governance Lympne is part of the electoral ward called Lympne and Stanford. The population of this ward at the 2011 Census was 2,004. Amenities Lympne has a village hall, a convenience/grocery shop, a hairdresser and a large pub-restaurant: The County Members. Sports A village football team plays in Kent leagues and trains new sides in the sport: Lympne Village Football Club, LVFC. Neighbouring villages provide other sports, such as cricket in the summer which is played informally in Lympne. Transport Lympne straddles the B2067 road from Hythe to Aldington, Hamstreet and Tenterden. The nearest railway station is at Westenhanger. In literature, film and the media Early 20th century In H.G. Wells's 1901 novel First Men in the Moon, the English narrator Bedford, the sole survivor of the Moon expedition, attempts to land the antigravity sphere anywhere on Earth and has the good fortune to land it on the seashore at Lympne, reasonably close to his departure point. A local boy enters the antigravity sphere without Bedford's permission, and accidentally activates it, sending himself and the sphere into space, never to return. Lympne was the written and spoken setting of the 1945 David Lean's film production of Noël Coward's play Blithe Spirit, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford (filmed in and around Denham, Buckinghamshire). Lympne Hill figures in the Doctor Syn stories by Russell Thorndike. In the book Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter by W. E. Johns, this place has an airfield where his Camel is stationed while Biggles is on holiday. See also List of places in England with counterintuitive pronunciations: A–L Notes External links A comprehensive history of the village Civil parishes in Kent Villages in Kent Anglo-Saxon royal vills