Walking in the New Forest

A Brief Walk - Step out from your New Forest Holiday Cottage in Brockenhurst, Latchmoor Corner, which is set in the glorious New Forest. Walking out of the front gate you are in the New Forest, with ponies regularly grazing over the track which runs alongside this holiday cottage. The odd pheasant has been seen on occasion and ponies and cattle roam daily to and fro past this new forest holiday cottage. Be sure to close the gate carefully behind you, as New Forest Ponies can be quite persistent when they smell fresh grass, any open gate will be taken as an invitation to feed on an acre of untouched pasture !!!!

So, having closed the gate...turning right you will see a path which disappears between gorse and heather (depending on the time of year and the Forestry Commission's management, the gorse and heather can be at varying heights and thicknesses - last time I looked it was quite open). Following this path, you will take a short hike of probably no more than ten or twenty minutes and arrive after a while on Setley Plain in the New Forest. Further travel will take you over forest roads (speed limited to 40mph) and to Buckland Rings, a site with plenty of history if you take a little time to find out about it. Indeed, Latchmoor Corner is a holiday cottage which has been standing since the late seventeen hundreds/early eighteen hundreds as far as can be ascertained. Originally built using the traditional cob method, a technique which dates back millennia, Latchmoor Corner started life as two cottages - a cob structure with a slate roof, this has been one property for many years and is now in use as a new forest holiday cottage.

You can walk from the french doors at the rear of the new forest holiday cottage into it's one and a half acres of gardens, with large lawn, mature borders and hedging. To the bottom of the garden area over the lawn we come to the paddock area which is approximately half an acre in size with stabling at the perimeter. Walking along the outside of the holiday cottage you carry on under a bridge, picking up the disused train line which now provides a reasonably stable surface, taking you many miles into the New Forest. We are in a remarkable corner of the English countryside set aside as a special place more than nine centuries ago by William the Conqueror. William named his "New" hunting forest, to be jealously guarded read more...