The mighty oaks of the forest were used to build the ships for Admiral Nelson's navy, and the fishermen who lived in Christchurch and Lymington helped Sir Francis Drake fight off the Spanish Armada. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their hunting parties, and where William the Conqueror's son Rufus was mysteriously killed. In the heart of the New Forest itself, some one hundred thousand acres of forest and heath sweep down to the Solent water and the Isle of Wight and overlook the English Channel just beyond.įrom the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest has remained a mysterious, powerful, almost mythical place. To its west runs the river Avon, from Sarum to the harbor at Christchurch, and to its east the port of Southampton. The New Forest lies in a vast bowl scooped from England's southern coast.
Forest and sea- there is no more perfect English heartland.īUYER OFFERS: We are a retail store with set pricing and unfortunately we can\t fulfil any requests to sell items for less than the listed price.In The Forest, Edward Rutherfurd, whose greatly admired Sarum and London have captivated millions of readers, now unfolds the saga of nine turbulent centuries in the life of the quintessential English the New Forest. And the oaks, the great oaks of England, are everywhere to be seen. Witchcraft is still, without the slightest question, prevalent within the forest. Its place names are Saxon and evocative - Brockenhurst, Hatchet Moor, Godwinescroft. But the character of the forest has always remained ancient and mysterious.Deer, even wild pigs, still roam there as they have since time immemorial. Today, the area is one of the most visited beauty spots in Britain, but the forest has always been busy.In medieval days, the religious houses of Christchurch and Beaulieu were important places after the Reformation numerous gentry built houses and parks in the forest the shipbuilding industry turned Lymington into a popular home for naval officers and an eighteenth century spa to rival Bath (Jane Austen lived only twenty-five miles north of the forest). Few places in England are more resonant, more mysterious yet more friendly than the huge forest that lies by England's southern coast, that provided hunting for England's Saxon and Noman kings, and whose ancient oaks were used to build Nelson's navy.
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