Dear Leap Piece

Dear Leap Piece is a forest in Colbury, New Forest, England. Dear Leap Piece is situated nearby to the hamlet Long Down, as well as near the locality Sandpike Plantation.

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Forest Wildlife Park and Ashurst New Forest railway station.

New Forest Wildlife Park

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Photo: J W Parker, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The New Forest Wildlife Park is located on the edge of The New Forest close to the towns of Ashurst and Lyndhurst. The park specialises in native and past-native wildlife of Britain and otters and owls from around the globe, housing four species of the former and ten of the latter.

Ashurst New Forest railway station

Railway station

Photo: AlanFord, Public domain.

Ashurst New Forest railway station is in Ashurst, Hampshire, England, on the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth. It is 85 miles 43 chains down the line from Waterloo.

Beaulieu Road railway station

Railway station

Photo: AlanFord, Public domain.

Beaulieu Road railway station is located at the point where the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth crosses the B3056 road from Beaulieu to Lyndhurst in Hampshire, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lyndhurst and Southampton.

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.

Southampton

Photo: Ronald Saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Southampton is the largest city in Hampshire, on the south coast of England. A busy cruise ship and container port, Southampton is the European end of the last Transatlantic ocean liner route, the Queen Mary II to New York, and in 1912 was the point of departure for the Titanic.