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Ascot, close to the Surrey border and situated in a wooded corner of the county that was once part of the ancient Windsor Forest, has a strong suburban feel to it, with an abundance of Edwardian

Ascot, close to the Surrey border and situated in a wooded corner of the county that was once part of the ancient Windsor Forest, has a strong suburban feel to it, with an abundance of Edwardian

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

A penny-farthing can be seen leaning against the front of the cycle stores in the centre of Burley, which John Wise described in 1863 as 'one of the most primitive of (New) Forest hamlets'.

This downstream view, taken from almost the same vantage point as N50079, shows the ugly and large hotel built in the intervening fifteen years close to both Trent Bridge cricket ground and Nottingham Forest's

Within its parish lies one of the few remaining survivals of genuinely ancient forest and heathland, now a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

On its no-through road in a short valley leading to the Cuckmere River, it feels amazingly isolated amid the Friston Forest.

Rockley Jetty Point, with its rail link, is across the water, with Holton Heath and Wareham Forest in the distance.

Ringwood's market brought country folk from far and wide to the town with their goods; it also became famous for the sale of New Forest ponies.

You cannot leave Lyndhurst in any direction without going through some of the best parts of the New Forest.

Situated to the west of Wolsingham on the A689, Frosterley used to be called Forest Lea.

Nobody knows for sure why this delightful corner of the Forest is called Queen's Bower. The origins of the name are lost in the mists of antiquity.

In the churchyard is the grave of 'Brusher' Mills, the famous New Forest snake-catcher.

The last meeting on the Forest took place on 30th September 1890.

Redditch appears in an ancient document describing the Perambulation of Feckenham Forest in 1300 as Le Red Dych.

Above the village of Rockingham lies the splendid castle, built by William the Conqueror on the site of an ancient fortress and at the heart of the great Rockingham Forest.

stream, stands a string of villages all 'under Wychwood', that ancient wood that still remains one of the most extensive stretches of woodland in Oxfordshire, but which in earlier times was a substantial forest

The pale-coloured cottages, where a man is standing in a doorway (centre right), were pulled down to make way for the Foresters' Hall, the home of the Electric Picture Theatre and other events.

things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century prophetess who allegedly forecast motorcars and aircraft, and Blind Jack Metcalf, born in 1717, who was a soldier, roadbuilder, forest

Situated on the north-western edge of the New Forest, Fordingbridge was once famous for the manufacture of canvas and sail cloth.

It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the river Medway.

He described Forest Road, seen to the left, as “smooth as a die”. Except for tarmac roads the scene has changed very little.

Before William's invasion this land was held by Earl Tostig, but four hydes of land from the original ten were seized for the creation of the Norman hunting forest.

Nearby is Stansted Forest, where Richard the Lionheart is believed to have hunted.