NOUN
- an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in 1079; originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland; noted for its ponies
How To Use New Forest In A Sentence
- With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but.
- The novel focuses on Marian's growth to adulthood and her reluctant acceptance of her fate: she is to be the new Forestwife, the healer who lives alone in the greenwood and tends to those who need bodily and spiritual renewal.
- Neither ‘new’ nor entirely ‘forest’, the New Forest is a cornucopia of habitats, a haven of beauty surrounded by intensively managed farmland and conurbations.
- It turns out we're lucky to find them: ceps usually prefer the ancient woodlands of Scotland or the New Forest to the comparatively recent growth of Thetford.
- Shoppers and traders are reeling after a shock announcement that one of the New Forest's most popular markets is to close next week.
- Living in camps, they carried out conservation work, planting new forests and helping with flood control projects.
- Running over three days, today is the last chance for visitors to get to the showground at New Park, in Brockenhurst, for a taste of all that is great and good about living in the New Forest and Hampshire.
- Then a new forest would spring up, the ferns, Calamites, Lepidodendrons, and Sigillarias would gradually form another jungle, and many hundred of feet above the buried coal-bed b, a second bed of peat and vegetable matter would begin to accumulate to form the coal-bed a. Such is the history of how the coal which we now dig out of the depths of the earth once grew as beautiful plants on the surface. The Fairy-Land of Science
- Here he lived much of the rest of his life in semi-seclusion, though he was at times a member of parliament, a magistrate, and verderer of the New Forest.
- As usual however, nature is inconsistent, and I am reliably informed that the latest data on New Forest deer shows that – even when sika get north of that railway line – they _do not_ hybridise with the reds. Oh deer oh deer oh deer