Route: Brockenhurst Circular
Area: New Forest, Hampshire
Date of walk: 18th June 2014
Walkers: Andrew
Distance: 7.4 miles
Weather: overcast but warm
We were staying at The Pig Hotel – highly recommended – just outside Brockenhurst in the heart of the New Forest (anyone not staying there is recommended to start the walk from Brockenhurst station). The village is one of the most attractive in the New Forest National Park. The area is home to ponies, deer, donkeys and cows – all of which are known to roam the main street
Gilly and I walked to the station, where Gilly caught a train to visit her parents – I would catch up with them all later. The path out of the village took me past Brockenhurst Park and then into Roydon Woods Nature reserve, where I had a close encounter with a fox. The last section of the walk was along the bank of Lymington River
There was a good variety of countryside on this walk, including woodland, parkland, heathland and grassland and it was beautiful throughout – a great walk for anyone who wants to see typical New Forest scenery
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The evening before the walk, we spotted some fallow deer in the fields next to The Pig Hotel
Next morning we leave the hotel to start the walk
Walking towards Brockenhurst on the path beside Mill Lane
The Parish Church of Brockenhurst, reputedly the oldest in the New Forest
Bridleway running alongside Brockenhurst Park
Magnificent avenue of trees in Brockenhurst Park
Entering Roydon Woods
A fox - I didn’t have time to focus properly and didn’t get a second chance
New Forest ponies
Near Dilton
The last section of the walk is along the banks of Lymington River
Back to the start - what a great walk it had been
