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New Forest

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.

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"New forest" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the fallen autumn leaves, and allow your eyes to wander along the level of the ground before you? Little by little the sense of height is lost, the interwoven branches of the oaks above your head form an inaccessible sky, and you behold a new forest extending beneath the other, opening its deep avenues filled by a green and mysterious light, and formed of tiny shrubs or root fibres taking the appearance of the stems of sugar-canes, of severely graceful palm-trees, of delicate cups containing ...

— The Nabob • Alphonse Daudet

... aunt. "I think I once knew a family of your name in Hampshire—the New Forest, if I ...

— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville

... a height that he ordered whole villages and towns to be swept away to make forests for the deer. Not satisfied with sixty- eight Royal Forests, he laid waste an immense district, to form another in Hampshire, called the New Forest. The many thousands of miserable peasants who saw their little houses pulled down, and themselves and children turned into the open country without a shelter, detested him for his merciless addition to ...

— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens

... The officials of the New Forest have ever since the days of the Conqueror enjoyed some of the pleasantest dwellings that southern ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... that names do not fit things; it is an old story that the oldest forest is called the New Forest, and that Irish stew is almost peculiar to England. But these are traditional titles that tend, of their nature, to stiffen; it is the tragedy of to-day that even phrases invented for to-day do ...

— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton

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