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Lyndhurst / l ɪ n d h ər s t / is a large village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England, about nine miles (14 km) south-west of Southampton. Known as the "Capital of the New Forest", [ 2 ] Lyndhurst houses the New Forest District Council and Court of Verderers .
New Forest is a local government district in Hampshire, England. Its council is based in Lyndhurst , although the largest town is Totton . The district also includes the towns of Fordingbridge , Lymington , New Milton and Ringwood .
Emery Down is a small village clustered around a hilltop overlooking Swan Green and Lyndhurst. [1] The village has one inn called The New Forest Inn. [2] The red telephone box in the village no longer has a phone, but is used as an Information Centre for local and New Forest information, history, advice, as well as a book exchange and as a place to purchase fruit and vegetables.
The New Forest became a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971, and was granted special status as the New Forest Heritage Area in 1985, with additional planning controls added in 1992. The New Forest was proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in June 1999, but UNESCO did not take up the nomination. [ 36 ]
The New Forest Wildlife Park (formerly The New Forest Otter, Owl and Wildlife Conservation Park) is located on the edge of The New Forest close to the towns of Ashurst and Lyndhurst. The park specialises in native and past-native wildlife of Britain and otters and owls from around the globe, housing four species of the former and ten of the latter.
It heads south through the New Forest to the large village of Lyndhurst. On account of the A337 being one of only a few main roads into the New Forest, it is frequently congested. In Lyndhurst the A337 meets the A35 road, and rings Lyndhurst village centre as a large roundabout.
Ashurst; Bank; Bartley; Beaulieu; Beaulieu Heath; Beaulieu Road railway station; Black Gutter Bottom; Blackwater Arboretum; Bolderwood; Bramshaw; Brockenhurst; Brook
Some of the larger settlements of the county of Hampshire, with cities in bold, and district centres in yellow. Lyndhurst, district HQ for New Forest also shown. This is a list of settlements in Hampshire by population based on the results of the 2011 census .