Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about New Forest. You may be able to find further references to New Forest in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
FOREST (New)	a forest, a district, and a hundred	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to New Forest within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th, 1826: Lyndhurst to Godalming	13
William Cobbett	Oct. 18th to 26th, 1826: Weston to Kensington	11
Celia Fiennes	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey	2
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
William Camden	Wiltshire and Hampshire	1
William Camden	Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 7th Oct to Nov. 30th, 1822: Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex	1
William Cobbett	Nov. 7th to 11th, 1825: Burghclere to Petersfield	1
William Cobbett	Oct. 11th to 16th, 1826: Burghclere to Lyndhurst	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Emery Down	0	2
Minstead	2	3
Lyndhurst	17	3
Rhinefield	0	1
Brockenhurst	0	2
Burley	0	2
Broomy	0	2
Bartley	0	2
Cadnam	0	4
Shobley	0	1
Bramshaw	0	2
Ellingham	1	2
Colbury	0	2
Sway	1	2
Heywood	0	2
Ashley Walk	0	2
Crow	0	1
Eling	3	2
Denny Lodge	0	2
Hounsdown	0	2