A Visitor’s Guide To Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire, UK

A Visitor’s Guide To Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire, UK

A Visitor’s Guide To Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire, UK

Brockenhurst is located centrally in the heart of the New Forest National Park, the former hunting ground of Kings. Lying between Lymington on the coast and Lyndhurst (the former capital of the forest), Brockenhurst is a wonderful small village with a number of country Inns and local shops brimful of local produce. There is no better place to stay in the New Forest. Every direction leads to beautiful deciduous forest or pastures. Beware of donkeys and ponies walking along the high street.

Originally comprising four Saxon manors: Mapleham, Hinchelsea, Brochelie and Broeste, Brockenhurst grew in importance only when salt production in Lymington required a more direct routing to London around the mid 18th Century. Lying directly on the trading route Brockenhurst became a natural stopover and many of the places to stay took guests hundreds of years ago. The earliest signs of settlements are from the Bronze Age a little more than 4,000 years ago (in the form of burial mounds known as tumuli). Although it is believed the people were nomadic at this time. It was not until William the Conqueror made the forest his hunting ground that Brockenhurst is