by stephen1 | Jan 8, 2026 | Features
Whether its New Year, or anytime during the year, making a resolution to get out and walk more is always going to benefit your physical and mental health. NHS advice is that even a brisk 10-minute daily walk has lots of health benefits and counts towards your...
by stephen1 | Dec 26, 2025 | Features
After a busy year of walking throughout 2025, we’ve compiled the Top 10 most popular walks in the New Forest. Based on page visits on NewForestWalks.co.uk, here’s where our website users have been walking over the past year: 1. Lyndhurst –...
by stephen1 | Dec 16, 2025 | Features
Even for seasoned walkers, many of the New Forest’s historical sites and local landmarks can be easily passed by without noticing – sometimes they are literally under your feet. Now, thanks to Jodi Longyear’s guidebooks, you can find the hidden history,...
by New Forest Walks | Nov 12, 2024 | Features
With clear frosty days, crimson sunsets – and the occasional snowfall – the New Forest can amaze and inspire, even in the depths of winter. Pack some turkey sandwiches, mince pies and a flask of coffee and blow away the winter blues while you explore the forest...
by Deborah Stafford | Nov 24, 2025 | Features
The New Forest has the greatest concentration of ancient trees in Europe with more than 1,000 recorded. Go on a walk through the forest’s ancient and ornamental woodlands and you could be passing oaks that may be between 400 and 800 years old, while beech...
by New Forest Walks | Sep 15, 2025 | Features, News
Every autumn the sound of gentle snuffling comes from the undergrowth in the The New Forest. Pannage season sees Commoners turn their pigs out on the open forest, exercising the Right of Mast which dates back to medieval times. The pigs happily eat acorns, beech nuts...
