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NEW See also:FOREST , one of the few woodland regions See also:left in See also:England covering about 93,000 acres in the See also:south-See also:west of See also:Hampshire, between the See also:Solent, See also:Southampton See also:Water and the See also:river See also:Avon. About two-thirds of it is See also:crown See also:property, and is preserved more or less in its natural See also:condition as open woodland interspersed with bogs and heaths. The trees principally represented are See also:oak and See also:beech, with some newer plantations of Scotch See also:fir. The trees were formerly felled for See also:building the See also:ships of the See also:navy and for feeding the See also:iron furnaces of See also:Sussex and Hampshire. Pigs and a See also:hardy breed of ponies find a See also:good living in the forest; and in spite of an See also:act in 1851 providing for their extermination or removal, a few red See also:deer still survive. Foxes, squirrels, otters, See also:snakes (smooth snake, grass snake and See also:adder), butterflies (some of them See also:peculiar to the See also:district), and an occasional See also:badger range the forest freely. The See also:tract derives its name from the extensive afforestation carried through in this region by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Conqueror in 1079; and the deaths of two of his sons within its confines—See also:Richard killed by a See also:stag, and William See also:Rufus by an arrow—were regarded in their See also:generation as a See also:judgment of See also:Heaven for the See also:cruelty and injustice perpetrated by their See also:father when appropriating the forest. Rufus's See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, near See also:Lyndhurst, marks the supposed spot where that monarch See also:fell. About one-See also:fourth of the See also:area is under cultivation by private owners and tenants. The See also:principal See also:village within the forest is Lyndhurst (pop. 2167 in 1901); its See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church contains a See also:fresco by See also:Lord See also:Leighton, and here is held the .verderers' See also:court, which since 1887 has had See also:charge of the crown portion of the forest. On the western outskirts lies the See also:town of See also:Ringwood (q.v.). Brockenhurst and See also:Beaulieu are the villages next in importance. Beaulieu, at the See also:head of the picturesque See also:estuary of the Beaulieu river, which debouches into the Solent, is famous for the ruins of Beaulieu See also:Abbey, founded by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:John for See also:Cistercians. The See also:gatehouse is restored as a See also:residence, and the See also:Early See also:English See also:refectory as a church. There are considerable remains of the cloisters, See also:chapter See also:house and domestic buildings. The New Forest gives name to a See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:county.
The New Forest is one of the five forests mentioned in Domesday. It was a See also:hunting-ground of the West Saxon See also:kings, but, as already stated, was afforested by the Conqueror, whose cruelty in the See also:matter is probably exaggerated by the traditional See also:account. One of the See also:chief See also:sources of the See also:wealth of the forest in early times was the herds of pigs fed there. The New Forest
being under the forest See also:laws, was affected by the forest clauses to the broken, uneven See also:character of most of the See also:country, and the of Magna Carta and by the Forest See also:Charter (r 217), which mitigated lengthy that thetponds and lls ke find See also:sea.convenient
There area in the numerous i
d
how their severity. The chief officer of this, as of other forests, was considerable streams, the Exploits, the See also:Humber and the Gan
three
der.
the See also:justice in See also:eyre who held the justice seat, the highest forest The first-named rises in the extreme S.W. See also:angle of the See also:island, See also:close court and the only court of See also:record capable of entering and to the See also:southern extremity of the See also:Long Range, and after a course executing judgments on offenders; the See also:lower courts were the of zoo m. falls into the See also:Bay of Exploits, Notre See also:Dame Bay. It is a Swainmote and Wodemote, the former of which is still held, wide at its mouth; its channel is studded with islands, the
, largest being Thwart Island, 9 m. in length. Fourteen See also:miles from in a modified See also:form, in the Verderers' See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall of the King's House the mouth is a See also:succession of cascades known as See also:Bishop's Falls, and at Lyndhurst. The See also:circuit of the justices in eyre, or their farther inland are the picturesque See also:Grand Falls. The Exploits deputies, continued down to 1635; they were virtually ended by drains an area of between 3000 and 4000 m., much of it fertile See also:land, the Act for the See also:Limitation of Forests (1640), though See also:Charles II. and densely wooded with See also:pine, spruce, See also:birch and See also:poplar. The
width of this fertile See also:belt varies at different parts of the river, but it
attempted to revive them, and they were not legally abolished is estimated that some 200,000 acres might be available for agriuntil 1817. The lower See also:officers of the forest, who held merely culture. The Humber rises 20 M. inland from Bonne Bay, and, See also:local appointments, were the verderers, the regarders (one of after emptying itself by a circuitous course into Deer See also:Lake, falls whose duties was that of seeing to the expeditation of " See also:great n
inta of Ids. It rains an area of 2000 See also:ear tthelsouthernslcoast, the Gander flows throughsG ndm. See also:sin
erRLake
See also:dogs ), the foresters, the woodwards and the agisters. There into See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton See also:Sound, draining an area of nearly 4000 sq. m. Be-was also a lord See also:warden, who was usually a nobleman and performed sides these three there is the Codroy, rising in the Long Range and no judicial functions. The Deer Removal Act (1851) resulted emptying into the Gulf of St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence.
in the almost See also:total extinction of the forest deer. Under the act The immense number of lakes and ponds constitutes perhaps the
of r8 the forest is administered rather as a See also:national k most striking See also:physical feature of the island. More than a third of
77 See also:park whole area is occupied by water. These bodies of water, large
than for the growing of See also:timber on commercial principles. and small, are found in the most various positions: in the See also:mountain
See J. R. See also:Wise, The New Forest (4th ed., 1883), with over sixty See also:gorges; in the depressions between the See also:low hills; in the valleys engravings by W. J. See also:Linton and a dozen etchings by H. See also:Sumner; and even in the hollows on the tops of the highest eminences. The
and R. D. See also:Blackmore, Gradock See also:Nowell (1866). largest is Grand Lake, 56 m. long, 5 in breadth, with an area of
192 sq. m.
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