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In early hunting parlance a forest was a hunting ground in the exclusive possession of the monarch; a chase was the preserve of minor royalty, the nobility or a gentleman.

The Lydney Canal is just one mile long with one lock and the tidal doors seen here, but it was an important and busy port for the shipment of coal from mines in the Forest of Dean.

Little remains today of Shakespeare`s Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture. But the name lives on locally.

This entire area was once cloaked with trees: it was once part of a forest that extended for miles across the surrounding countryside.

This wooden bridge was built over the River Llugwy so that the miners living in the village of Pentre Du could get to the lead mines of the Gwydir Forest.

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

It is reputed to be a likeness of King John, who hunted in nearby Mendip forest.

The Forge Valley is a delightful winding drive through the forest.

The White Hart and Foresters Cottages are on the left. John Bradley was once the landlord, also an undertaker who made his own coffins.

The fire station and its tower dominate the scene, with the ambulance station and complementary education buildings to the right.

There are plenty of oak trees, foxgloves and thatched cottages in this pretty New Forest village.

This elegant Georgian mansion, set within three acres, is surrounded by the 90,000 acres of the New Forest where ponies roam free. Rooms are priced from £45 upwards.

Pilley is one of six hamlets making up Boldre in the New Forest. The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

There was once a royal hunting forest next to Whitewell, and that brought in the aristocracy of past times.

This centre had grown from the work of Norah Jacques at Forest Lodge Riding School in the late 1950s.

The area now called Ottershaw was once a royal hunting ground within Windsor Forest.

In between these two great rivers lies the Forest of Dean, of which Coleford is one of the principal towns.

Tourism in the New Forest is really a 20th-century phenomenon.

The corner shop at the junction of Terrace Road and Forest Road displays numerous advertisements, including those for Walls Ice Cream, Cadburys, Digger, and Turf.

One of the New Forest's most famous landmarks, Bucklers Hard was an important naval shipbuilding yard during the 18th century.

Half a mile from Lyndhurst and yet located within the parish lies the scattered hamlet of Emery Down, surrounded by peaceful forest glades and countryside.

The Victory Hall means that Mobberley's original place-name meaning 'the clearing in the forest where meetings are held' still holds true today.

Little remains today of Shakespeare's Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture. But the name lives on locally.

In medieval times, guards were posted to keep watch and to guide people from the nearby Forest of Galtres so as to protect them from the packs of wolves that roamed the area.