Title - New Forest Notes Archive

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  • December 2005 - Parish Council's Lyndhurst bypass; Minstead Manor; Temporary peace.
  • November 2005 - First six months of the Forest park; Drivers' map; Window to a lost Forest landscape; A filthy Forest.
  • October 2005 - The contrasting fortunes of two forests; John Lavender; Who will run the Forest's campsites?; The signboard epidemic.
  • September 2005 - Party politics in Forest management; Forest iron working; The 2005 drift season; Beyond the camp site boundary.
  • August 2005 - How to understand the Forest's management; Ashurst cricket pitch; Verderers' policies for the future of the New Forest; A Lyndhurst building site?.
  • July 2005 - Restoring Turf Hill; Markway compromise; Progress of the campsite applications.
  • June 2005 - Managing Lyndhurst Golf Club - sensible maintenance or reckless vandalism?; Dames Slough; New Forest Association leaflet.
  • May 2005 - Further decline of the National Trust's Commons; Landscape versus conservation; The New Forest Trust.
  • April 2005 - New farming subsidies for the Forest; Death of the New Forest Committee; A strange set of values.
  • March 2005 - Last of the Council Verderers; How the National Park will be run; Charging for horse riding; Draghunting - round 2; Stallions.
  • February 2005 - Money for horsekeepers; Hyde Common mystery; Commoners' Defence chairman; Battle of the campsites; Beatrice Tame.
  • January 2005 - The disappearing Inclosures; The Design Forum - Round 2; Camp site forces preparing for battle.

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  • December 2004 - The hunting ban and the Forest; The great campsite debate; Markway swamp.
  • November 2004 - Rewriting the Forest's laws; Respecting park purposes.
  • October 2004 - More broken Park promises?; Battlefield at Highland Water; Acorns; Longslade cycle bridge.
  • September 2004 - Helicopters in the Forest; Battle of the Wetlands; Misinformation on the camp sites; Researching the Forest's past.
  • August 2004 - A Park to please nobody; Commoners Passage; Private capital for the Forest's camp sites?
  • July 2004 - Continuing Life III battles; Recording the history of the Forest's commons; Donn Small.
  • June 2004 - Remembering Gerald Lascelles (with photograph); The Progress Project; A vanished landmark; Meals on wheels.
  • May 2004 - Headquarters for the National Park; The NFA in colour; Ancient history under threat.
  • April 2004 - Neglect of the National Trust Commons; Minister's visit to the Forest; Environment Agency consultation.
  • March 2004 - The end of Knightwood Inclosure; The Forest's forgotten military sites; New Forest Notes and the internet.
  • February 2004 - Money for New Forest farming; Official litter.
  • January 2004 - The Verderers in the High Court; Flood reservoirs in the Forest?; Lost statistics from the past.

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  • December 2003 - Kingston Great Common; The New Forest Museum Library; Verderers election 2003 result; Death of the allotments.
  • November 2003 - American travels of a Forest picture; The 'Progress Project'; Brian Ingrem; The drought; Planning double standards.
  • October 2003 - Trouble in the wetlands; Lyndhurst bypass; Record candidate numbers?; Agri-environment scheme and the Agisters; The Broomy Plain road.
  • September 2003 - The vanishing reseeded areas; Dead animal collection service; Strategic cycle routes; Abusing the Forest.
  • August 2003 - Two new Verderers; Stallions, mares and foals; Election 2003; Official Verderers.
  • July 2003 - New Forest Strategy launch; Lonslade cycle bridges; Last chance on the right to roam; June Irvine.
  • June 2003 - Greenhill Copse and the Commoners' rights; Fockersperger FSP17; No apology from the Countryside Agency.
  • May 2003 - Destruction of Highland Water?; Railway question; Freda Harding.
  • April 2003 - Government support for Forest grazing; The departing Deputy Surveyor; Waste wood; A unique photo opportunity.
  • March 2003 - New Forest rubbish tips; The Lyndhurst Golf Club; Lost visitors; Recording the Forest's past.
  • February 2003 - Upgrading the Forest's camp sites; Ralph Hayward; Exposing the A31.
  • January 2003 - The New Forest and the Hunting Bill; The new Deputy Surveyor; Maintaining controls of Forest commerce; The pig's tale.

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  • December 2002 - Picket Post past and present; Cattle marking; Orientering; A century of killing.
  • November 2002 - Realising Lyndhurst's dream of an outer bypass; Wartime Forest photos; Two Deputy Surveyors.
  • October 2002 - Resolving the Forest's recreation disputes; Access plans fiasco; A curious land exchange.
  • September 2002 - Opening up the Forest's private heaths; Agister's accident; The dying hollies; Weakening protection of the National Parks.
  • August 2002 - Cutting the Verderers' income; Restoring the Inclosures; National Trust conservation grazing scheme; Park Inquiry duration and scope.
  • July 2002 - Strategy for the New Forest; Protecting the Forest's past; 337 Park representations.

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