As one of the Men of Kent, I can confirm that Lympne is pronounced the same as limb.

Didn't Skyways manage to land a 748 upside down at Lympne
 

. . . indeed they did, 11 July 1965. A search for "G-ARMV accident" on Flickr will reveal a couple of pictures and and press cuttings . . .

I have no idea how I pronounced it when I went there around 1971/3 in a HS125. All I remember was the runway was rough ( or was it my landing? )

No not my landing as take off was rough too a bit like Moscow in winter in the late 70's

Did you use the grass?

Didn't Paul McCartney upset the locals in the early 80s while performing in Europe would fly. Home late at night in a hs125 in to lympne or lydd also some good shots of lympne on you type

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Maybe that was the reason:{

<<also some good shots of lympne on you type>>

Where, please?

Ref Heathrow director type in lympne airport on main page of YouTube there are a few frames of both lympne and also lydd there is a shot of a skyways 748 taking off which says its lympne I beleive this to be lydd but may be wrong hope this helps

Doesn't the Roman name Pontus Lemanus come from the earlier Greek "Limani" (note the 3 syllables!) meaning port or bay, which Lympne once was?