Pennington is a ward in the southernmost part of the New Forest on the Solent coastline near to the town of Lymington, with which it shares the civil parish of Lymington and Pennington. Pennington Village is at the centre of the ward, with Upper Pennington to the north and Lower Pennington to the south. In the 2021 Census, the population was 6,147. Pennington is home to important local infrastructure including a solar farm, a water treatment works, a recycling centre, and certain landfill sites, as well as a number of farms. Pennington Village is the main historical settlement and is where major residential development throughout the twentieth century was concentrated. Most of the shops are located in the village, along with a majority of Pennington’s schools, such as Priestlands secondary school, and Pennington Junior School. Pennington Village also has a leisure centre, which has a 25-metre indoor swimming pool, a sports hall, a gym, and an Astro-turf football and hockey pitch. Pennington also has a wide-open space next to the village called Pennington Common, which is used for sports and local community events. The shops are centred around the square in the village, and a