SHE was the yoga teacher whose online error resulted in closer ties between two towns with the same name.

Former Londoner Kyra Mann discovered a Facebook group called Hythe and Waterside People and assumed it was about her new home on the Kent coast.

But people living in its Hampshire namesake spotted the mistake and asked her to write a series of articles about “her” Hythe.

As reported in the Daily Echo, the posts proved so popular that a group of Waterside residents travelled to Kent last summer to meet Kyra and tour the area she had described.

Now Kyra has returned to compliment by visiting Hythe and the New Forest as a guest of David Morris and his wife Jan.

After taking part in a quiz night at the Fountain Court Hotel she was given an extensive tour of the area, visiting Beaulieu, Brockenhurst and other parts of the district.

She was guest of honour at a reception held at Seashells bar in Hythe and was also treated to dinner at La Vista - a waterfront restaurant in Hythe marina.

The following day Kyra and her hosts caught the train to the end of the pier and took the ferry to Southampton, where they viewed the old city walls and some of the Zany Zebras on display.

Kyra said: “Everyone was very hospitable and I had a really nice time.

“I had never been to the New Forest before and seeing all those animals roaming around relatively free was very special.

“I met quite a few people I either knew through the Facebook group or I’d met when they came to visit me last year.”

Hythe in Kent is on the coast whereas Hythe in Hampshire overlooks Southampton Water and the River Test. But they are both pretty market towns and the pier railway reminded Kyra of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch line.

She said: “The two Hythes are quite similar in some ways and quite different in others.

“We’re actually on the coast, surrounded by quintessential Kentish villages.

"We don’t have the New Forest but we do have the Kent Downs.”

Explaining the origins of the online friendship, dubbed Hythe2Hythe, she added: “I moved down from London in July 2014 and wanted to promote my yoga classes.

“I found a Facebook group called Hythe and Waterside People.

"I didn’t occur to me that it wasn’t about ‘my’ Hythe and asked to join.”