london to new forest Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/london-to-new-forest Mon, 15 May 2017 16:07:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 New Forest Travel http://toursmaps.com/new-forest-travel.html http://toursmaps.com/new-forest-travel.html#respond Mon, 15 May 2017 16:07:48 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=240125 The New Forest gets more visitors than any other national park in the UK: around 13 million day visits a year. Tourism is by far the biggest money spinner, providing a third of the local jobs and generating at least £70 million per annum. While many visitors don’t stray far from its picturesque villages, picnic sites and roadside carparks, increasing numbers of horseriders, cyclists, ardent walkers and naturalists get off the beaten track to experience the magic of the place. Cars and cyclist numbers are increasing, clogging up many of the roads in summer when it’s sometimes all but impossible

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/new-forest-travel.html/feed 0 New Forest Guide for Tourist http://toursmaps.com/new-forest-guide-tourist.html http://toursmaps.com/new-forest-guide-tourist.html#respond Mon, 15 May 2017 16:02:36 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=240115 According to Florence of Worcester, not as you might imagine a female but actually a well-educated male monk who died in 1118, the forest was known before the Conquest as Ytene, its early Anglo Saxon name. It was first recorded as ‘Nova Foresta’ in the Domesday Book in 1086 where a section devoted to it also mentions the town of Southampton, today the largest conurbation near its edge. It is the only forest that the blog describes in detail. About 90% of the New Forest is still owned by the Crown and, since 2005, the bulk of it is a

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