Beyond the New Forest, but still within striking distance and well worth visiting are coastal expanses, great house, fabulous gardens, historical sites and lots more.

Here are some ideas . . . . .

• Bankes family homes from Corfe Castle to this, the more civilised Kingston Lacy
• The exquisite parkland at Stourhead
• For the literary, Hardy country
• The home of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House
• The National Rose Collection and Whistler Trompe l'oeil room at Mottisfont Abbey
• Stanley Spencer's murals in the Sandham Memorial Chapel and nearby Beacon Hill
• The Hillier Gardens and Arboretum

So I hope you will enjoy not only your time in our New Forest but also some of the treasures a little further away.