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The New Forest Notes are the Copyright © (2010) of Anthony Pasmore.

The New Forest Notes are written by Anthony Pasmore, and published monthly in the Lymington Times. They are informative and thought-provoking commentaries on issues of importance to the Forest and its users.

Anthony also offers his perspective on historical matters, and discusses the fruits of research into the characters, practices and law that have forged the Forest we know today. The Forest is under pressure; Anthony also looks to the future of this unique farming area and environment.

If you are able to assist with queries raised within the Notes, please email Anthony Pasmore directly.

Please note that Anthony Pasmore writes as a private individual, and his comments should not be construed as the views or policy of any official organisation.

Forest Notes for 2006 - 2010

• August 2010 - Stewardship money and the threat to the Forest's historical sites; Money for old concrete; Health and safety debris.
• July 2010 - The Forest boundary question; The Park recreation plans; Kingfishers in a sick stream; Death of a Forest pony.
• June 2010 - A design plan for the Open Forest; Ground nesting birds; Stallions; Sustainable building on the Forest.
• May 2010 - Forest ponies surviving a tough winter; Sally Cardwell; Tightening the net on bovine tuberculosis.
• April 2010 - Natural England's Verderer; The trench on Great Witch; How offensive is the Rufus Stone?;Cleaning a filty Forest.
• March 2010 - National Park's plans for running Forest recreation; Verderers' Stewardship Scheme passes the starting line; A sticky welcome; Tailing.
• February 2010 - The decline of the New Forest Keeper; Bovine tubercolosis in the Forest; A338 closure stopped.
• January 2010 - Quad bikes in the Forest; Warwickslade troubles; Dog racing exclusion zone; A fresh programme of stream-filling projects; Burley New Inclosure.
• December 2009 - New elected member of the Verderers' Court; The Verderers' High Level Stewardship Scheme; Lyndhurst Cemetery.
• November 2009 - A permanent resting place for the National Park; Harvest your own bracken; A rabbit's victim; Driving instructors versus the Highway Code.
• October 2009 - The Busketts Lawn Bomber; Verderers' Election; The Warwickslade railway; Juliette de Bairacli Levy.
• September 2009 - New Forest Stewardship Agreements and beyond; More trouble at Islands Thorns.
• August 2009 - Park changes; Rabbits and bracken; The future of Forestry Commission land; Oakley Inclosure.
• July 2009 - The National Park and its critics; The railway threat; Mallard Mead.
• June 2009 - Spedegue's Dropper & Arthur Conan Doyle; Chaos and congestion at Fritham; Change at the Commoners Defence.
• May 2009 - A mobile shop for the Forest's camps?; Little Eye Green; Warwickslade discoveries.
• April 2009 - The Forest community on display; The two hundred year memory; A terrible death; A chance to make amends.
• March 2009 - When is a commoner not a commoner?; A foal-less spring; Shave Green gipsy camp; VIP at the Verderers Court.
• January 2009 - Killing ponies and cattle on the Forest's roads; Warwickslade Cutting; Lyndhurst Golf Course.
• December 2008 - What the Forestry Commission wants from the Park Plan; Damaging the Forest's historic sites; Commoners' Defence membership.
• November 2008 - Trouble at the Park; Wreckers from the railway; Solution to the Storm Bushes puzzle; The road-sign rash spreads.
• October 2008 - A new society for the New Forest; Stormy bushes; Diana Halford; More bells; Public comment invited; Marking fees.
• September 2008 - The Horsekeepers' Revolt; The Atlas Project; An important doscovery of Forest placenames; Cowbells and buckets.
• August 2008 - The National Park Plan; New rules for Forest horsekeeping.
• July 2008 - Oil - the forgotten threat beneath the Forest; Will Parke; Lord Manners; Keeping the Lyndhurst deer in.
• June 2008 - An obsession with access; Agisters' areas; Stealth widening to meet its Waterloo?; Campsite abuse.
• May 2008 - Headquarters building for the Park; Money down the drain; Lyndhurst bypass down for a generation.
• April 2008 - New Forest words and placenames; The early camper; Park Plan - the final event; Faster verge driving.
• March 2008 - Crown Land Management Plan; Lyndhurst Bypass meeting cancelled; Verderers' Chairman.
• February 2008 - Replacing the Official Verderer; Lottery bid collapse; Car park development; The Forest's coastal archaeology.
• January 2008 - The Park's gamble over aircraft noise; Arrows from the past; Lottery problems; Christmas damage; The Minister's Mandate.
• December 2007 - Straight talking on the Forest campsites; Triangles and cards; An inevitable leak?; Pay early for the discount.
• November 2007 - Extra financial support for New Forest Commoners; Park plan workshop; Drift visitors.
• October 2007 - Precious wilderness or suburban park; More signs for the Forest; The changing character of Forest villages; Islands Thorns.
• September 2007 - Development of shops in the campsites; Badgers and bovine TB; The road to nowhere; John Broughton.
• August 2007 - Trouble in the camps; The planning Verderer; The commoning review.
• July 2007 - Tuberculosis in the Forest; Ashley Lodge and the Bumsteads; New Forest picture exhibition; The Forestry Commission's management plan; An end to the Forest's drainage.
• June 2007 - The Minstead Manor case; Sir Michael Heathcote; Changes in the Enjoyment Department; Losing the Lost Landscapes.
• May 2007 - The burning question; Camp plans withdrawn; Incomprehensible jargon; Access to commoners' houses.
• April 2007 - How to build a Lyndhurst bypass; The Commoners' disappearing millions.
• March 2007 - Vanishing 20th Century Forest History; The root of evil; Animal accidents.
• February 2007 - The Commoners' Housing Scheme; New Forest Transport Conference; Weakening of camp site controls.
• January 2007 - A31 road: CPRE hears no evil; The Park and the Archaeologist; Special qualities of the New Forest; Graffiti; Acorn deaths and the pannage extension.
• December 2006 - No change in the Verderers' Court; Stream filling at Brockenhurst; South View and John Wise; The Commoning Review; Echo of a distant past.
• November 2006 - Planning the end of the Forest's plantations; Verderers' election; Pig mania; The end of local meetings?; Cattle marking.
• October 2006 - Park's Corporate Plan for the New Forest; Evidence of camping in the Bronze Age and later; Acorns; Road widening by stealth.
• September 2006 - Eyeworth Wood - firewood to beetle fodder; Resident rage; New Forest paintings.
• August 2006 - Changing the course of the Lymington River; The Great Hole of Slufters.
• July 2006 - The ravaging of Kings Copse; The camp site paradox; Abandonment of the Minster's Mandate?; Good news on power lines.
• June 2006 - Holmsley Lodge and the campsites; Selling the family silver.
• May 2006 - Farming in the Park; Last of the strong-arm silviculturalists; More National Trust land; Changes to an ancient landscape.
• April 2006 - A new threat to the Forest's protection; Single farm payments; Brands; Rubbish.
• March 2006 - Verderers Election 2006; The Forest in the Seventeenth century; Foxbury; Continuing saga of the Forest campsite plan.
• February 2006 - The mystery of Duckhole Bog; Imposing the national park plan; Buggy rider prosecuted; Gig Alford.
• January 2006 - The Bolderwood honeypot; What the visitors say; Fuelwood complexities; Forest logos.

Archive

The Forest Notes published before January 2006 are available on the Archive page.