The New Forest is England's eighth National Park. It has 61 ancient monuments, 634 listed buildings and 18 conservation areas within it's boundaries.

The area now known as the "New Forest" was once dense woodland. During the Bronze age trees were cleared and heathland began to form. Stones heated by fire were dropped into water in earth pits in ...

The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 brought with it an unprecedented influx of Indian troops to British shores.

Ghosts of the New Forest, include Charles I, who is said to haunt Hurst Castle. He is thought to have met his rival, Oliver Cromwell, in the lodge at Rhinefield House, on his way to his execution ...

“He frightened us a little by whistling under the parlour window just as we were going to bed.’’ Local smugglers, often called “Hampshire Fencibles’’, were well known in the New Forest ...