A new article – Walking in the enchanted New Forest – is now available online at Cicerone Extra. Take some time out to explore the New Forest, a unique and captivating landscape of open heath and ancient woodland tucked into south-west Hampshire and south-east Wiltshire. You can read the full article here: https://www.cicerone.co.uk/the-enchanted-new-forest You can […]
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A new edition of my guidebook – Walking in the New Forest – has been published by Cicerone and is available now at https://www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-in-the-new-forest-second, through local bookshops and online; for more information visit https://www.stevedavison.co.uk/book/walking-new-forest. The 30 walks in this guide – Walking in the New Forest – take you on a journey through Britain’s smallest
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This month’s walk meanders through the New Forest in the south-west corner of Hampshire. From Hale Purlieu the route heads north to arrive at Hatchet Green with its picturesque thatched cottages overlooking the village green. The stone sculpture by Paul Wilson was commissioned to celebrate the Millennium, as was the planting of one of the
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Head to the western edge of the New Forest for an easy wander over the neighbouring commons of Rockford and Ibsley. The route heads through Rockford, soon passing The Alice Lisle pub before meandering north-east over Rockford Common and then north over neighbouring Ibsley Common to arrive at Whitefield Plantation; from here there are some
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The New Forest, or the Nova Foresta as it was known in the Domesday Book, is a unique and captivating landscape of open heath and ancient woodland tucked into south-west Hampshire. ‘Created’ by William the Conqueror in 1079 as a royal hunting ground, the New Forest has, for the last 900 years, owed its very
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