The New Forest is an English medieval deer hunting area created in 1079 by William the Conquerer, it is still largely in possession of the Crown and has recently become a National Park. The New Forest is a beautiful area, and is a welcome venue for ramblers, cyclists, campers, dog walkers and horse riders to name but a few. Horses, cattle, pigs, deer openly graze due to the Right of Common which allows certain plots of domestic and agricultural land in the New Forest and close by to turn out their stock, to gather wood and to dig clay. Southern Holiday Lets has one property in the gateway town to the New Forest, Fordingbridge, Criddlestyle Cottage.

"But in its wild scenery lies its greatest charm...... Nowhere, in extent at least, spread such stretches of heath and moor, golden in the spring with the blaze of furze, and in the autumn purple with heather, and bronzed with the fading fern. Nowhere in England rise such oak-woods, their boughs rimed with the frostwork of lichens, and dark beech-groves with their floor of red brown leaves, on which the branches weave their own warp and woof of light and shade."
John Wise, 1895 - The New Forest. Its History and Its Scenery