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A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley. Local legends say that dragons and serpents inhabited the forest.

In earlier days this route marked the only highway in and out of the Forest from this direction.

It is believed that Bainbridge was a settlement for woodsmen working in the great forest of Wensleydale.

The famous New Forest ponies are only wild in the sense that they are not broken in. All of the ponies are owned by someone, though they may stay out in the Forest through all the seasons of the year.

There are many wide open spaces around Lyndhurst, where the Forest meets the town. They are good places for a stroll if the depths of the old hunting forest are too daunting.

Hythe was once the port of the New Forest; a settlement survived here after the Conquest, despite the excesses of William the Conqueror.

An evocative view of wide shaggy grass verges, children and deserted roads characterises this view of Forest Row, the Ashdown Forest village that grew up on the site of Royal hunting lodges.

The New Forest Inn is another popular hostelry at Emery Down.

Here we see a busy scene in Forest Row's attractive centre on the London to Eastbourne Road (A22). Forest Row grew after the arrival of the railway in 1866, and became a parish in 1894.

Much of the administrative work of the New Forest is carried out here. Five times a year the Verderers meet here to discuss important Forest business.

That great huntsman William I held the manor of Lyndhurst in his own hands after the land around was taken in as a hunting forest.

The village of Brockenhurst lies in one of the most attractive parts of the New Forest, and many of its cottages are of considerable antiquity.

The roads of the New Forest tend to be much busier these days than they were when this photograph was taken.

Epping Forest, which now covers some 6,000 acres, was ten times larger in the 17th century.

Many of the cottages inside the Forest boundary are of considerable antiquity, being either renovations or replacements of buildings that have stood on the same sites for centuries; it is hard to imagine

A blue plaque recalls that this was built in 1883 out of compensation paid for the loss of tree-lopping rights in Epping Forest.

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.

It lies within the old Delamere Forest, and nearby there is a small section of that original forest surviving – it is considered so important that it is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest

Ringwood stands on the banks of the meandering River Avon, at the New Forest's western boundary. A Saxon town in origin, it may get its name from its location.

Now 'The Inn at Whitewell', the place has a reputation for serving good food and was built towards the end of the 14th century as a manor house by Walter Urswyck, a Keeper in the Royal Forest.

Clumber Park, like Rufford, is heavily wooded; it was enclosed out of Sherwood Forest, that great forest that extends from Worksop southwards almost to Nottingham.

Wyre Forest has a popular visitor centre with a restaurant and shop. It specialises in woodland displays, and organises outings with children in mind.

Oakley was within the medieval royal hunting forest of Bernwood - the king's hunting lodge cum palace was at Brill nearby. The name of the village means 'a clearing in the oak woods'.

Colemans Hatch is a good example of one of the 14th-century settlements that developed along the edges of the forest and waste; its name implies an old entrance into the forested area.