New Forest Reviews

My new husband and I stayed at the Balmer Lawn Hotel - www.balmerlawnhotel.com for our wedding night, which is situated in Brockenhurst in the New Forest. It was a wonderful hotel and we received excellent service. The facilities in the hotel and around it were excellent. There were so many activities available. The food was very good, and of a ...

~~Summary~~ The New Forest is a great area for walking, viewing flora, fauna, ponies and other animals in the wild, also there are good beaches around Bournemouth. In the New Forest there are parks and activities for visitors, along with a variety of small towns and quaint villages to visit. Also there are many little gravel car parks dotted ...

Situated in the New Forest is Breamore House which overlooks the Avon valley & was once the property of Elizabeth the 1st until she sold the estate. I have cycled to Breamore village & the house from Salisbury. Breamore has one post office & thatched cottages. The entry takes you up to a courtyard where you can padlock up bikes by the ...

I am not long back form a lovely honeymoon in the New Forest - the perfect place for a quiet, romantic escape from the world. Did you know, by the way, that the origin of honeymoon is an old fertility practise in which newlyweds would share a glass of mead (honey wine) for a month (moon) after marriage! We have been doing this. The New ...

The New Forest occupies the S.W. corner of Hampshire between Southampton water and the Avon. Today the forest is 93000 acres, but most of it is managed by the Forestry Commision, of which 45,000 is for ponies and cattle to graze, and the rest is woodland, villages and farms. It's open waste is now the biggest stretch of semi-natural vegetation ...

I have recently returned from a short break with my husband in the New Forest. This is an area of England that I have only visited previously as a child. Located just north west of Southampton, its the largest area of wildland in England, containing ancient forest, heathland, and some wonderful little villages. We camped at ...