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

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs.

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road. The Red Lion, c1550, is an old coaching inn.

Chigwell Row was laid-out along the edge of Hainault Forest in the 18th century. By the 1840s it boasted 'many mansions and good residences, occupied by London businessmen and others'.

Situated within the remains of the Rockingham Forest, Stanion has thatched and stone-tiled cottages looking towards the graceful tower and spire of its 13th-century church.

During World War II the forest was laid with temporary roads and was used as a bomb dump and collection point for tanks and other equipment in preparation for the D-day invasion of Europe.

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.

Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.

It continued to develop in the 20th century, establishing itself as a convenient and popular inland resort within the boundaries of the New Forest.

In 1863 John Wise described Burley as 'one of the most primitive of (New) Forest hamlets.' By the time this picture was taken, almost 100 years later, it was firmly on the tourist trail.

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

Here, looking across the valley to the northeast, we can see the 19th-century St Luke's Church; in the centre, at the bottom of the valley, is the Exmoor Forest Hotel.

This famous Edwardian county hotel was built on the edge of Savernake Forest, where the Great Western Railway and the Kennet and Avon Canal enter the Vale of Pewsey.

John Ruskin praised this old market town fulsomely, saying it had moorland, sweet river, and English forest at their best. Markets have been held here since medieval times.

Charcoal burning was one of the New Forest's earliest industries, though it is a rarer occurrence today. The charcoal produced had a multitude of uses, particularly in the smelting of iron.

This well-known inn is situated in a peaceful corner of the New Forest, close to Cadnam.

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

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road. The Red Lion, c1550, is an old coaching inn.

In this century, walks around Stocks Reservoir ('the Jewel of the Forest of Bowland') are increasingly popular; the area has 70 per cent of the UK breeding population of hen harriers.

The forests had deposits of iron ore, and supplies of wood fuel to smelt it; the iron-making families brought much wealth to the parish.The church of St Margaret, with a shingled broach spire,

The forest of masts and aerials was a feature of the landscape for over 65 years. The first two were erected in 1925 when the BBC opened the first National Service from Daventry.

The legendary resting place of Robin Hood's loyal lieutenant has been pointed out to visitors to Hathersage churchyard for many years, and has been 'adopted' by the Ancient Order of Foresters, who look

In the one hundred years following the building of the Peak Forest Canal in 1801 the population of Romiley tripled.

The bridge boosted the local economy by enabling coal from the Forest of Dean to be transported across to Sharpness, from where it was shipped inland up the canal to Gloucester and the Midlands