New Forest, Pigs Near Brook c.1955
Photo ref: N18004
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Many original farms in the New Forest had the ancient common right of pannage, the right to turn out pigs into the Forest to feed on mast and acorns. In 1848 a commission allowed this old right to continue between September 25th and November 22nd - the so-called 'Pannage Month'.

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