Search Results

The parish of Frant lies on the forest-ridge approximately 180 metres above sea level, and overlooks landscapes in both Kent and Sussex. The origin of its name suggests a former wilderness or desert.

This ruinous Jacobean manor house, about half a mile north-west of Forest Row, was built in 1631 for Sir Henry Crompton, MP for East Grinstead.

façade of the Rose and Crown Hotel is a landmark on the main road through Wensleydale in the village of Bainbridge, once the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest

A forest of tall chimneys flung a pall of lucrative smoke over the town. The boisterous song of 'Sospan Fach' (which means 'the little saucepan') was Llanelli's theme tune.

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'.

Peveril Castle was originally built by William Peveril, illegitimate son of the Conqueror, to administer the Royal Hunting Forest of the Peak.

These veteran trees, such as this one, can be up to 500 years old, and were once part of the medieval forest of Sherwood. Today, they are valued as important wildlife habitats for insects and fungi.

The church itself dates from Saxon and Norman times, when the village was an important centre of the Royal Forest of the Peak, a hunting preserve of Norman monarchs.

Enfield remained a modest country town, clustered about what had once been a clearing in a great forest, well into the 20th century.

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

Tunbridge Wells was once a scattered hamlet in a forested part of the Weald. But in 1606 a chalybeate spring was discovered, and Tunbridge Wells grew into a handsome spa town.

In the 1890s, the Crown was the venue for meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters, the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows and the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.

Feckenham once stood at the heart of Feckenham Forest, an ancient hunting ground of kings, which once covered some 200 square miles and included over 60 settlements.

The pools were mentioned by Leland, Henry VIII's librarian, when he travelled around the country in 1536; he also noted that the surrounding land had been cleared of forest for charcoal.

Once part of an ancient hunting forest and dominated by a castle, Powerstock huddles in its valley not far from the Iron Age hillfort of Eggardon, in the heart of West Dorset.

Just down in the dale from Askrigg, on the banks of the River Ure, stands the ancient village of Bainbridge, once the capital of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and

The Lickey Hills were declared a royal hunting forest in the 11th century, but they were sold by the Crown to the Earl of Plymouth in 1682.

It was made up of two holdings - that of Alberic the Clerk and that of Richard the Forester. In 1122 Henry I united the holdings and gave them to Geoffrey de Clinton.

At this corner stands a war memorial to the Eastwood men who served in the Sherwood Foresters regiment during World War I.

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border. The 13th-century church of St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village.

Seacox is a French chateau- style house built in 1871 for the Goschen family, who were great benefactors of the village; they built many cottages for estate staff.

We are at the eastern edge of the Ashdown Forest.

It is a sunny day in this quiet village that stands between the water meadows of the River Wey and Alice Holt Forest.

The Temperance Hall of 1868 was next door, and across the road was the Forester's Arms, once a Heath family property,which still stands today.