LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[The New Forest from Bramble Hill (Sunrise),] Frontispiece. [Old Oak in Boldrewood,] Title-page. PAGE [View in Bushey Bratley] 1 [The Entrance from Barrow’s Moor to Mark Ash] 6 [The Stream in the Queen’s Bower Wood] 7 [The Charcoal Burner’s Path] 19 [The Cattle Ford] 20 [View in Gibb’s Hill Wood] 38 [The Millaford Brook] 39 [The Woodcutter’s Track] 48 [Calshot Castle] 49 [Norman Doorway at Fawley Church] 59 [Arches of the Chapter House] 60 [Pulpit of the Refectory] 68 [Old Barn or “Spicarium” of Beaulieu Abbey] 70 [Chapel at St. Leonard’s Grange] 70 [Canopied Niche in St. Leonard’s Chapel] 73 [View in Frame Wood] 74 [View in the Queen’s Bower Wood] 84 [View in the Great Huntley Woods] 85 [The Woodman’s Path] 90 [Oaks in Boldrewood] 91 [Rufus’s Stone] 96 [View from Castle Malwood] 108 [View in Studley Wood] 109 [View in Puckpits Wood] 112 [Yews and Whitebeams in Sloden] 115 [The Avon from Castle Hill] 116 [The Avon at Ibbesley] 124 [Tyrrel’s Ford] 125 [The Avon at Winkton] 128 [The Priory Church, Christchurch] 129 [The Norman House, Christchurch] 133 [The North Porch and Doorway of the Priory Church] 144 [Chewton Glen] 145 [Hurst Castle] 157 [View in Mark Ash Wood] 158 [The King’s Gairn Brook] 171 [Anderwood Corner] 172 [Bushey Bratley (another view)] 195 [The Urns in Bratley Barrow] 196 [Keltic Urn, Neck of Roman Wine-Vessel, and Flint Knives] 206 [Barrows on Beaulieu Plain] 213 [Wine-Flask, Drinking-Cups, and Bowls] 214 [Necks of Oil-Flasks] 218 [Necks of Wine-Vessels and Oil-Flask] 218 [Patterns from Fragments] 223 [Patterns from Fragments] 223 [Oil-Flask, Drinking-Cups, Bowl, and Jar] 225 [Boldre Church] 226 [Norman Font in Brockenhurst Church] 233 [The Barton Cliffs] 234 [Fossils from the Shepherd’s Gutter Beds] 244 [Fossils from the Brook Beds] 249 [Barrows Moor Wood] 250 [The King’s Gairn Brook (another view)] 257 [The Heronry at Vinney Ridge] 258 [Nests of the Honey and Common Buzzard] 266 [View in Buckhill Wood] 276 [The Staple Cross] 288 [Gladiolus Illyricus] 306 [The Kildeer Plover] 318 [The Cicada] 328
[Map of the Old South-Western Sea-Coast] to face page 149 [Plan of Sloden Hole] ” 216 [Section of Hordle Cliff] ” 238 [Section of Beckton Cliff] ” 241 [Map of the New Forest] ” 276
PREFACE.
Under the title of the New Forest I have thought it best to include the whole district lying between the Southampton Water and the Avon, which, in the beginning of Edward I.’s reign, formed its boundaries. To have restricted myself to its present limits would have deprived the reader of all the scenery along the coast, and that contrast which a Forest requires to bring out all its beauties.
The maps are drawn from those of the Ordnance Survey, reduced to the scale of half an inch to the mile, with the additions of the names of the woods taken from the Government Map of the Forest, and my own notes.
The illustrations have been made upon the principle that they shall represent the scene as it looked at the time it was taken. Nothing has since been added, nothing left out. The views appear as they were on the day they were drawn. Two exceptions occur. The ugly modern windows of Calshot Castle, and the clock-face on the tower of the Priory Church of Christchurch, have been omitted.
Further, the views have been chosen rather to show the less-known beauties of the Forest than the more-known scenes. For this reason the avenue between Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst—the village of Minestead, nestling half amongst the Forest oaks and half in its own orchards—the view from Stoney Cross, stretching over wood and vale to the Wiltshire downs, have been omitted. Every one who comes to the Forest must see these, and every one with the least love for Nature must feel their beauty.
In their places are given the quiet scenes in the heart of the great woods, where few people have the leisure, and some not the strength to go—quiet brooks flowing down deep valleys, and woodland paths trod only by the cattle and the Forest workmen.