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Birch trees and Meadow Pipits: Rockford Common and Appleslade

On February 19, 2022February 18, 2022 By Amanda ScottIn Birds, Joan Begbie, New Forest, New Forest heaths, Northern New Forest, Trees and forestry13 Comments

In which Meadow Pipits chatter across an old common and Birch trees illuminate the last days of winter: a walk across Rockford Common in the New Forest

In the New Forest: landscape, history, and the network of things

On June 19, 2021June 18, 2021 By Amanda ScottIn Archaeology and history, Joan Begbie, New Forest, New Forest heaths, Northern New Forest4 Comments

In which I begin to learn about how to understand a landscape, by lifting my eyes and knowing where my feet are planted.

Rockford Common, Roe Inclosure and Linford

On May 1, 2021May 3, 2021 By Amanda ScottIn Archaeology and history, Joan Begbie, New Forest, New Forest heaths, Northern New ForestLeave a comment

In which I visit a lovely common, and make friends with a brimstone butterfly ... In this post, I describe a walk across Rockford Common and through Roe and Little Linford Inclosures via the heaths of Bucksherd Bottom in the New Forest.

Joan Begbie published her book of New Forest walks, Walking in the New Forest, in 1934, almost 100 years ago. Joan writes entertainingly and with a shining love for the Forest as she describes each of her many walks. In this blog, I’m following in her footsteps. I was curious to discover how things have changed in the New Forest since she was writing, and how much is the same. I follow her routes using a modern OS map (OS Explorer 22), comparing it with an OS map dating from the 1930s. Each post describes a different walk (or part of a walk). Why not come with me to explore!

The New Forest National Park is in the south of England, lying mainly in the county of Hampshire, and in Wiltshire to the north.

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