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Tag Archives: Purkis
New Forest: commoning generations
While visitors to the New Forest, and those lucky enough to reside here, undoubtably appreciate its magnificent scenery, free roaming livestock, and exceptional wildlife, not many would consider the significance to the landscape of the unbroken chain of Forest ancestry … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest, New Forest Commoner
Tagged ancestors, ancestry, commoning, families, family, generation, generations, heritage, landscape, livestock, New forest, Purkis, Rufus, Saxon, scenery, symbiotic, wildlife, William I, William II, Winchester, Ytene
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Famous New Forest inhabitants
I recently wrote an article about ‘celebrity’ trees on the New Forest and have since received requests for information about other famed inhabitants. An obvious candidate is King William I, otherwise known as William the Conqueror, who established the Nova … Continue reading
Posted in New Forest, New Forest Commoner, New Forest pony
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, celebrities, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Duke of Bernay, Florence Nightingale, Henry Brusher Mills, Henry Lyte, Hollywood A-Listers, Lawrence of Arabia, Lewis Carroll, New forest, New Forest pony, Old Tame, Purkis, Rufus the Red, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, snake catcher, William the Conqueror
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