Category: Travel Writing
No person, I suppose, would now give any attention to, much less approve of, Lord Burleigh’s advice to his son—“Not to pass the Alps.” We have, on the contrary, in these days gone into an opposite extreme. We race off to explore the Rhine before we know the Thames. We have Alp...
To describe the Fauna of the Forest is beyond the purpose of this book, and would, beside, require a life-time to properly accomplish. I can only here deal with the ornithology...
23. Chapter II., p. 14, foot-note, was seen about twenty-five years ago byKildeer Plover. (_Charadrius vociferus_, Lin.) This rare straggler, the only one ever known to have been seen in England, was shot, April, 1859, in a potato field close to Knapp...
25. xix. Staneswood (Staneude), which is more southward, also, accordingto _Domesday_, possessed a mill which paid five shillings, and two fisheries worth fifty pence. Farther north lies Redbridge, the Rodbrige of _Domesday_, which also maintained t...
28. part i., 1858, pp. 123, 124.[206]In the parish of Eling we have Netley Down and Netley Down-field, the Nutlei of _Domesday_. Upon this word—which we find, also, in the north of Hampshire, in the shape of N...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Intimately bound up with the race are of course the folk-lore of a district, and what we are now pleased to call provincialisms, but which are more properly nationalisms, showin...
17. CHAPTER XVII.It is much to be regretted that Sir Walter Scott has left no account of his excavations of various barrows in the Forest. However little we may be able to determine by the evide...
3. CHAPTER III.Once the New Forest occupied nearly the entire south-west angle of Hampshire, stretching, when at its largest, in the beginning of the reign of Edward I., from the Southampton W...
20. CHAPTER XX.I have endeavoured, whenever there was an opportunity, to point out the natural history of the Forest, feeling sure that, from a lack of this knowledge, so many miss the real ch...
13. CHAPTER XIII.I have determined to give a chapter to Christchurch, not because it contains more than many another town, but because it is a fair representative of the generality of small Engl...
9. CHAPTER IX.About four miles off from Lyndhurst lie Minestead and Rufus’s Stone. There are three or four different roads to them. The most beautiful, though the longest, is over Emery Down,...
15. CHAPTER XV.Many people have a vague notion that the gipsies constitute the most important element of the population of the New Forest, whereas, of course, they are mere cyphers. An amusing...
2. CHAPTER II.As I said in the last chapter, one of the main objects of this book is to dwell upon the beauty of the Forest scenery. I chose the New Forest as a subject, because, although in...
6. CHAPTER VI.I should trust that, on a fine day, twenty miles are not too much for any Englishman. If they are, and any one should think the walk along the coast too long, Beaulieu may be re...
7. CHAPTER VII.At present we have seen nothing of the actual Forest. It is only as we go northward that we begin to enter its woods. Instead of the old Forest track, a road now runs from Beaul...
24. chapter xvii.), in vain tried there, or in other parts, to find any[36]The names of the fields in the various farms adjoining the Forest—Furzy Close, Heathy Close, Cold Croft, Starvesall, Hungry Hill, Rough Pastures, &c. &c.—are not without mea...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Little has been seen of the sea, except from Calshot Castle to Leap. Though, too, the sea-coast here, as there, is no longer in the Forest, yet if we miss this walk we shall los...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.From time to time the labourer, in draining or planting in the Forest, digs down upon pieces of earthenware, whilst in the turfy spots the mole throws up the black fragments in...
5. CHAPTER V.This corner of the Forest, once perhaps the most beautiful, is now the least known, because, to most people, so inaccessible. It lies quite by itself. No railway yet disfigures...
11. CHAPTER XI.The Valley of the Avon should certainly be seen, both because large parts of its manors and villages once stood in the Forest, as also for the contrast which it now affords to t...
21. CHAPTER XXI.Closely connected with the geology of the Forest are its flowers. And though mere geology could not tell us the whole Flora of a district, yet we might always be able, by its he...
19. CHAPTER XIX.As the monasteries of former days preserved the general records of the times, so, in a minor degree, do our churches preserve the special history of our villages. In the social...
4. CHAPTER IV.We need not dwell so long upon this as the former portion of the History, for in many cases it is nothing but a bare recital of perambulations and Acts of Parliament. The true h...
10. CHAPTER X.If any one wishes to know the beauty of the Forest in autumn, let him see the view from the high ridge at Stoney-Cross. Here the air blows off the Wiltshire Downs finer and keen...
1. CHAPTER I.No person, I suppose, would now give any attention to, much less approve of, Lord Burleigh’s advice to his son—“Not to pass the Alps.” We have, on the contrary, in these days go...
27. chapter xx.[185]Yarranton, in that strange but clever work, _England’s Improvement by Land and Sea_ (Ed. 1677, pp. 43-63), dwells at length on the quantity of iron-stone along the coast, a...
8. CHAPTER VIII.As we leave Brockenhurst we find ourselves more and more in the Forest. The road to Lyndhurst is one long avenue of trees—beeches with their smooth trunks, oaks growing in group...
12. CHAPTER XII.After we leave Ringwood the road for a mile or two is less attractive in its scenery. Still, here, as in every part of England, there is something to be seen and learnt. The Avo...
26. chapter xx. There are not many fossils in either the grey sand orthe green clay before you reach the “bunny.” Plenty, however, may be found in the top part of the bed immediately above, known as the “High Cliff Beds,” and which rise from the...