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TheNew Forest FREE EssentialGuide Includes: to the National Park 2017 Events guide Maps Places to explore Walking & cycling Enjoy your New Forest adventure WIN a luxury stay in a Forest Holidays cabin The New Forest Essential Guide is brought to you by the Forestry Commission and the New Forest National Park Authority Welcome to the New Forest A place of ancient history, fascinating wildlife and stunning beauty. William the Conqueror set aside the Today it is a wonderful area to visit forest for hunting more than 900 years and explore by walking, cycling and on Special offer! ago as his ‘Nova Foresta’ or ‘New Forest’ horseback. 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Can and the ‘Play Trail’ with its huge wooden Back at the Moors Valley Visitor Centre you weave grasses or twigs to make a mat? play structures. And, new for this summer Spend the night animal tracks, the options for you can enjoy a home-cooked meal Camping Or use a leaf for a sail? Safety tips - make you can discover our Gruffalo character and refreshments. Disabled access amongst the trees playing and exploring in the sure you access shallow gravel streams from and more seekers find the hiding space, it will sculptures in the deep dark wood - meet There are ten campsites in the New gentle slopes (dark water is deep). Use natural get more cramped and squashed … a bit like and facilities are provided including Camping in the Forest offers Fox, Squirrel, Owl, Mouse and Snake! Forest, run by Camping in the Forest, materials and never play by water alone. a can of sardines! 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Tree Top Adventure, with over 1,000 metres has to offer, or simply sit back and at campingintheforest.co.uk hider in their hiding space. As time goes on increases in size and often noise and laughter! of exhilarating crossings, a 166-metre long enjoy the peace and tranquillity. or by calling 024 7642 3008. zip wire and giant Tarzan swing. Release your little monkeys on Tree Top Junior Camping in the Forest offers unrivalled access to the forest, Best places to play it one of the best places in the forest to spot deer, with no boundaries. Complete For even more great play areas in the it also has some of the tallest trees in the forest. 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