Full Description
This guidebook describes 30 day walks of between 3 and 10 miles set right across the New Forest National Park. Suitable for all abilities, the walks can easily be combined into longer routes for greater challenges, through woodland, heath and along the coast, all illustrated with large-scale OS map extracts and vibrant colour photographs.The area is also an animal lover's paradise, providing natural habitat to many types of wildlife including deer, all six of Britain's native reptiles and the New Forest's very own species of pony. The New Forest is a unique landscape of open heath and ancient woodland tucked into south-west Hampshire and south-east Wiltshire. To many, a key feature is the ancient and ornamental woods, and here can be found the greatest concentration of 'veteran' trees in western Europe. And all this located within Britain's smallest national park, within easy reach of Southampton, Bournemouth and Salisbury.
Contents
Overview map Introduction Plants and wildlife Geology History of the New Forest Walking in the New Forest Using the guide Maps Getting to the New Forest Getting around the New Forest Food and drink Where to stay Countryside Codes Access and rights of way The New Forest online Longer walks and long-distance routes The WalksLangley Wood and Hamptworth Godshill and Castle Hill Hatchet Green and Woodgreen Bramshaw Telegraph and Eyeworth Pond Bramshaw Church and Nomansland Abbots Well and Alderhill Inclosure Fritham and Cadman's Pool Janesmoor Pond and the Rufus Stone High Corner Inn and Ogden's Purlieu Appleslade Bottom to Rockford via Ibsley Common Castle Piece and Linford Brook Exploring Bolderwood Minstead and Furzey Gardens Portuguese Fireplace and the Knightwood Oak Bank and Gritnam Ober Water and Blackwater Arboretum Holmsley Walk and Burley Wilverley Inclosure and Castleman's Corkscrew Lyndhurst and Bolton's Bench Ashurst figure-of-eight Beaulieu Road and Bishop's Dyke King's Hat, Dibden Bottom and the Beaulieu River Stubby Copse Inclosure and Balmer Lawn Brockenhurst and Dilton Hatchet Pond and Hawkhill Inclosure Beaulieu River from Beaulieu to Buckler's Hard Setley Common and Boldre Church Exploring the coastline from Lymington to Keyhaven Milford on Sea and Hurst Castle Lepe and Exbury Appendix A Route summary table Appendix B Useful contact information Appendix C Glossary Appendix D Bibliography
