Reasons I think the New Forest in good:
- Its really wild
- Animals roam free
- Its beautiful
- You could make a living taking photos of it
- The roaming animals can be approached
- It remote
- There's nothing else like it
- There is very little housing, making it a special place to live
- So many picnic spots!
- I want to live there.
- The shops are amazing!
- Its different to everything else in Britain
- It has an old fashioned sweet shops, with thousands of sweets
- Its well maintained
Facts about the New Forest:
- Includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily-populated south east of England
- The New Forest was originally woodland, but parts were cleared for cultivation from the Bronze Age onwards.
- The poor quality of the soil in the New Forest meant that the cleared areas turned into heathland .
- The New Forest was created as a royal forest by William I in about 1079 for the private hunting of deer.
- It was first recorded as "Nova Foresta" in Domesday Book in 1086
-Two of William's sons died in the Forest: Prince Richard in 1081 and King William II (William Rufus) in 1100
- he New Forest became a source of timber for the Royal Navy, and plantations were created in the 18th century for this purpose
- In the Great Storm of 1703, about 4000 oak trees were lost
- As of 2005, roughly 90% of the New Forest is still owned by the Crown. The Crown lands have been managed by the Forestry Commission since 1923 and most of the Crown lands now fall inside the new National Park.
- The New Forest National Park area covers 566 km2
- The New Forest is drained to the south by two rivers, the Lymington River and Beaulieu River, and to the west by the Dockens Water, Hucklesbrook, Linbrook and other streams.
- The highest point in the New Forest is Piper's Wait, near Nomansland. Its summit is 129m (422 feet) above sea level
- The wet heaths are important for rare plants, such asmarsh gentian Gentiana pneumonanthe and marsh clubmoss Lycopodiella inundata.
- All three British native species of snake inhabit the Forest. The adder (Vipera berus) is the most common, being found on open heath and grassland. The grass snake (Natrix natrix) prefers the damper environment of the valley mires. The rare smooth snake Coronella austriaca) occurs on sandy hillsides with heather and gorse.
- The Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) survived in the Forest until the 1970s
- Includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily-populated south east of England
- The New Forest was originally woodland, but parts were cleared for cultivation from the Bronze Age onwards.
- The poor quality of the soil in the New Forest meant that the cleared areas turned into heathland .
- The New Forest was created as a royal forest by William I in about 1079 for the private hunting of deer.
- It was first recorded as "Nova Foresta" in Domesday Book in 1086
-Two of William's sons died in the Forest: Prince Richard in 1081 and King William II (William Rufus) in 1100
- he New Forest became a source of timber for the Royal Navy, and plantations were created in the 18th century for this purpose
- In the Great Storm of 1703, about 4000 oak trees were lost
- As of 2005, roughly 90% of the New Forest is still owned by the Crown. The Crown lands have been managed by the Forestry Commission since 1923 and most of the Crown lands now fall inside the new National Park.
- The New Forest National Park area covers 566 km2
- The New Forest is drained to the south by two rivers, the Lymington River and Beaulieu River, and to the west by the Dockens Water, Hucklesbrook, Linbrook and other streams.
- The highest point in the New Forest is Piper's Wait, near Nomansland. Its summit is 129m (422 feet) above sea level
- The wet heaths are important for rare plants, such asmarsh gentian Gentiana pneumonanthe and marsh clubmoss Lycopodiella inundata.
- All three British native species of snake inhabit the Forest. The adder (Vipera berus) is the most common, being found on open heath and grassland. The grass snake (Natrix natrix) prefers the damper environment of the valley mires. The rare smooth snake Coronella austriaca) occurs on sandy hillsides with heather and gorse.
- The Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) survived in the Forest until the 1970s
Opinions about The New Forest:
7th century writer provides exquisite detail:
"In this County [Hantshire] is New-Forest, formerly called Ytene, being about 30 miles in compass; in which said tract William the Conqueror (for the making of the said Forest a harbour for Wild-beasts for his Game) caused 36 Parish Churches, with all the Houses thereto belonging, to be pulled down, and the poor Inhabitants left succourless of house or home. But this wicked act did not long go unpunished, for his Sons felt the smart thereof; Richard being blasted with a pestilent Air; Rufus shot through with an Arrow; and Henry his Grand-child, by Robert his eldest son, as he pursued his Game, was hanged among the boughs, and so dyed. This Forest at present affordeth great variety of Game, where his Majesty oft-times withdraws himself for his divertisement."
"From God and Saint King Rufus did Churches take, From Citizens town-court, and mercate place, From Farmer lands: New Forrest for to make, In Beaulew tract, where whiles the King in chase Pursues the hart, just vengeance comes apace, And King pursues. Tirrell him seing not, Unwares him flew with dint of arrow shot."
Words relating to the New Forest:
- Ponies
- Moorland
- Hunting
- Deer
- Royal
- Lyndhurst
- Holiday
- Free
- Bogs
- Villages
- Cows
- South
- National Park
Images of the New Forest:
Typical scenery
An Adder
One of the many occupants
Beautiful.
The day we had a picnic with the shetland ponies
Timid.
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