The Gallery
Learning about and practising commoning on the New Forest.
In medieval times a forest meant an area preserved for royal hunting, and not a wooded area as it does today.
The Agisiter ensures welfare standards of the free-roaming animals are maintained.
The ‘architects’ of the New Forest.
The New Forest landscape supports many species of plants, insects, birds and mammals. It should be valued as a reserve for nature.
One of many gatherings where Commoners can exchange news, information and knowledge.
Pannage season is part of the ancient commoning rights and a popular tradition.
Traditional management practices, particularly commoning, have conserved the ecological diversity of the Forest.
Monthly Archives: July 2017
New Forest: every day is a school day
The Londoners came to visit again this weekend. These are family members who live in our nation’s capital and, every now and then, when their busy social or work schedules allow, will leave the hectic pace of city-life, traffic jams, … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, botanist, chamomile, children, classroom, couch, day, entomologist, fescue, haunt, hay, learning, livestock, London, meadow, New forest, ornithologist, pimpernel, pollution, school, shade, sorrel, Timothy, traffic, wildflower, wildlife
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New Forest: ‘modern Vandalism’ in the C19th
In 1871 George Briscoe Eyre, the owner of the Bramshaw (or Warren’s) Estate, wrote that’ although a nation of tourists, the English are strangely apt to overlook the claims of their own country upon their attention and its exceptional variety … Continue reading
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Tagged Beech, biodiversity, Bradshaw, Briscoe Eyre, C19th, Commissioners, Common Rights, Commoner, Crown, English, National Park, nature, New forest, New Forest Act 1877, nineteenth, Oak, plantation, scotch pine, surveyor, tourists, trees, woods
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New Forest: the sad story of the strange fish
While the New Forest is renown for its exquisite landscape of heathland, valley mires and Ancient and Ornamental woodlands, its 42km (26 miles) of coastal habitats are often overlooked. The New Forest coastline is a mixture of wildlife-rich shingle, saltmarsh, lagoons … Continue reading
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Tagged beaked, bottle, carbine, cetacean, coast, continental, dolphin, Dragoon, English Channel, fish, fishermen, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Itchen, Marchwood, New forest, porpoise, Sea, Solent, strange, Tursiops truncatus, water, whale
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New Forest: natural connections
In the last few weeks it has been my absolute pleasure and privilege to be invited into the homes of several long-established commoning families and spend time in their company. Congregating in the kitchen seems to be the standard practice, … Continue reading
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Tagged adults, ancient, animals, children, close-knit, common, Commoner, community, conserve, education, generation, information, insects, inter-generational, landscape, livestock, neighbourhood, neighbourhoods, New forest, non-human, pastoral, plants, pony, preserve, resident, residents, traditional, trees
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