Dorset, UK: The New Forest

We left for Dorset earlier this week for a 3 day getaway. The first day we spent walking in The New Forest, an area of southern England which includes the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land Like much of England, the New Forest was originally woodland, but parts were cleared for cultivation from the Bronze Age onwards. The New Forest was created as a royal forest by William I in about 1079 for the private hunting of mainly deer. It was created at the expense of more than 20 small settlements/farms The New Forest Pony is one of the indigenous horse breeds of the British Isles, and is one of the New Forest's most famous attractions. They are everywhere wandering the forest and are quite tame (in that they don't run away when you walk by).