Yey! Easter bank holiday! I love this bank holiday the most due to the fact the weather is getting warmer and we have 4 days to chill out however we want!
This weekend I am going camping to the New Forest. For those who do not know what the new forest is and why it is called that I shall tell you.
The New Forest is an area of south east of England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest. It covers south west Hampshire and some of contiguous southeast Wiltshire.
The New Forest was created as a royal forest around 1080 by William the Conqueror for the hunting of (mainly) deer. It was first recorded as "Nova Foresta" in the Domesday Book in 1086, and is the only forest that the book describes in detail. Twelfth-century chroniclers alleged that William had created the forest by evicting the inhabitants of thirty-six parishes, reducing a flourishing district to a wasteland; however, this account is dubious, as the poor soil in much of the forest is incapable of supporting large-scale agriculture, and significant areas appear to have always been uninhabited. Two of William's sons died in the forest, Prince Richard in 1081 and William Rufus in 1100. The reputed spot of the Rufus' death is marked with a stone known as the Rufus Stone.
Now the land is a national park and common land for the commoners to graze their ponies and cattle which roam wild and live off the land. During the months of September to November pigs are sent out to graze to eat the acorns as pigs can digest them unlike ponies and cows which can be fatal in larger doses.
Here is a photo of the New Forest ponies grazing during March, as you can see a few are quite pregnant so hopefully I will get to see LOADS of little foals while I am there!
This weekend I am going camping to the New Forest. For those who do not know what the new forest is and why it is called that I shall tell you.
The New Forest is an area of south east of England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest. It covers south west Hampshire and some of contiguous southeast Wiltshire.
The New Forest was created as a royal forest around 1080 by William the Conqueror for the hunting of (mainly) deer. It was first recorded as "Nova Foresta" in the Domesday Book in 1086, and is the only forest that the book describes in detail. Twelfth-century chroniclers alleged that William had created the forest by evicting the inhabitants of thirty-six parishes, reducing a flourishing district to a wasteland; however, this account is dubious, as the poor soil in much of the forest is incapable of supporting large-scale agriculture, and significant areas appear to have always been uninhabited. Two of William's sons died in the forest, Prince Richard in 1081 and William Rufus in 1100. The reputed spot of the Rufus' death is marked with a stone known as the Rufus Stone.
Now the land is a national park and common land for the commoners to graze their ponies and cattle which roam wild and live off the land. During the months of September to November pigs are sent out to graze to eat the acorns as pigs can digest them unlike ponies and cows which can be fatal in larger doses.
Here is a photo of the New Forest ponies grazing during March, as you can see a few are quite pregnant so hopefully I will get to see LOADS of little foals while I am there!
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Cant wait till the 14 th then