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The glorious New Forest is currently in the spotlight as the subject of a new Channel 4 series, A Year in the New Forest, which introduces the people who face the challenges of making a living there all year and the animals which share this special place. It’s also a fantastic visitor destination, and as […]

The New Forest National Park must be one of the best places in the UK to spend Christmas; beautiful scenery, long country walks, pretty ponies, cosy pubs with roaring log fires and, best of all, someone else doing all the cooking and washing up. Here are just a few ideas of New Forest hotels that […]

The recently staged, inaugural Seafood Festival in Lymington, New Forest, saw over 15,000 tourists and locals head to Bath Road Park on the banks of the Lymington River, for the two-day event staged over a weekend in August. Organisers have announced that plans for a 2018 extravaganza are already underway, for what is now hoped […]

August 26 is National Dog Day, so what better way to show your four-legged friend how much you love them than by treating them to a break to one of the New Forest’s super, dog-friendly hotels! Here are some ideas to get your family pet drooling in anticipation… At the luxurious, five-star, Chewton Glen near […]

The sun is shining and we all want to be outside, and there is no better place to be for sunshine or shade than in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire. Located in the south of England, the New Forest includes one of the largest (over 200 sq miles) remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture […]

If there’s one word that sums up the New Forest for 2017 it’s action! Running, playing walking, festivalising and celebrating…it’s all on the menu. From Spring 2017 there’ll be plenty of action from delighted youngsters rushing around exploring the new Holbury Manor Park and Warren Copse wild play site, situated just outside Holbury. The site’s […]

The inaugural New Forest Food & Drink Festival Week ended on a high with Ringwood’s Bakehouse24 scooping the award for Best Contribution to New Forest Food & Drink in 2016. Sponsored by The New Forest Marque – a scheme which helps support and promote New Forest farmers, producers and growers – the award was given […]

The nights before Christmas are precious and magical. So spend them in a magical place – deep in the New Forest.   Come early to the ancient forest and make a day of it, walking or cycling under frosty bare branches and spotting our beautiful deer, pigs and New Forest ponies, as they nibble the […]

From TV personalities Gregg Wallace and Simon Rimmer, to the thousands of people who flocked to free events, to the sell-out cookery demonstrations at hotels and restaurants; the first New Forest Food & Drink Festival has proved to be a big hit. Visitors had the choice of over 120 events covering 15 different themes during […]

With just days to go before the start of the New Forest Food and Drink Festival Week, the region’s award-winning chefs are putting the finishing touches to the special menus, dishes and demonstrations they are preparing for the thousands of visitors who are expected to join them for the area’s first event of this kind. […]