New Forest
The New Forest is a major tourist area and a national park in Hampshire. It is immensely popular with British campers, as it is one of two national parks in the densely populated South East of England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Forest
- Description: national park in southern England
- Also known as: “New Forest, Hampshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Foxlease and Christ Church.
Foxlease
Manor estate
Photo: ValP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Foxlease Park is an outdoor training and activity centre near Lyndhurst, Hampshire, UK. The site is now owned by Foxie's Future CIO, a charity set up to save Foxlease for future generations following Girlguiding's decision to sell it in May 2023.
Christ Church
Church
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Christ Church is a Church of England church in Emery Down, Hampshire, England. Designed by William Butterfield, it was constructed between 1863 and 1864. The church has been a Grade II listed building since 1987.
Knightwood Oak
Photo: MalcolmGould, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Knightwood Oak is a pedunculate oak and the largest, and perhaps most famous, oak tree in the New Forest, in southern England. It is also known as the Queen of the Forest.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst.
Lyndhurst
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Lyndhurst is a village of 3,000 people in the New Forest. it is a popular tourist destination, with many independent shops, art galleries, cafés, museums, pubs and hotels.
Brockenhurst
Photo: treehouse1977, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brockenhurst is a large village in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. Southampton is 13 miles to the north-east, and Bournemouth is 15 miles south-west. Surrounding towns and villages include Beaulieu, Lymington, Lyndhurst, and Sway.
Cadnam
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cadnam is a village in the New Forest in Hampshire within the boundaries of the New Forest National Park. The village has existed since the medieval period. It was and still is an important crossroads between Southampton and the towns of Dorset.
New Forest
- Categories: pasture and royal forest
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover New Forest from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“New Forest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حديقة نيو فوريست”
- Balinese: “Wana Anyar”
- Basque: “New Forest”
- Belarusian: “Нью-Форэст”
- Catalan: “New Forest”
- Cebuano: “New Forest”
- Chinese: “新森林国家公园”
- Cornish: “Park Kenedhlek Koswik Nowydh”
- Danish: “New Forest”
- Dutch: “Nationaal park New Forest”
- Dutch: “New Forest”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حديقة نيو فوريست”
- Esperanto: “New Forest”
- Esperanto: “Nova Arbaro”
- Finnish: “New Forest”
- French: “New Forest”
- German: “New Forest”
- Hebrew: “ניו פורסט”
- Icelandic: “New Forest-þjóðgarðurinn”
- Irish: “New Forest”
- Italian: “New Forest”
- Italian: “parco nazionale di New Forest”
- Italian: “parco nazionale New Forest”
- Japanese: “ニュー・フォレスト”
- Japanese: “ニューフォレスト”
- Latin: “Nova Foresta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Forest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “New Forest”
- Norwegian: “New Forest”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy New Forest”
- Portuguese: “New Forest”
- Romanian: “Parcul Național New Forest”
- Russian: “Нью-Форест”
- Serbo-Croatian: “New Forest”
- Slovenian: “New Forest”
- Spanish: “New Forest”
- Swedish: “New Forest”
- Turkish: “New Forest”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Форест”
- Urdu: “نیو فارسٹ”
- Welsh: “Fforest Newydd”
- Welsh: “New Forest”
- Western Panjabi: “نیو فارسٹ”
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