New Forest
The New Forest has a rare, beautiful, yet fragile landscape made up of woodland, heathland and river and coastal habitats. It was created by William the Conqueror to chase the deer and wild boar. Some of the park’s oaks are around 600 years old, part of the greatest concentration of ancient and veteran trees in northern Europe. The heather-clad heathland makes way to grassland and waterlogged bogs, or mires. Thousands of ponies, cattle, sheep, donkeys and pigs are put out to [...]