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A short walk around the Pignal Inclosure Standing Hat Circular Walk 4 Take left hand north easterly gravel track. Approximately 3 miles (5km) Route Information Take third right hand track and proceed 1 Leave the New Forest Tour at Hollands 5 A lovely walk, through Forestry Commission in an Easterly direction Wood campsite and walk towards the managed Inclosures, that offers a great Hotel. Turn left up the opportunity to spend a few leisurely hours 6 Turn right at junction and walk along Balmer Lawn Road keeping the hotel on in the enclosed woodlands. Walking in gravel track crossing over the cross your left. the Forest on a summer’s day just can’t track to the Inclosure boundary. Keep within inclosure. be beaten. Use the New Forest Tour to 2 Bear left at the cycle way-marker post get you to Brockenhurst and the Hollands ‘31’ (Beaulieu/Lyndhurst) and continue 7 Take sharp right hand track south Wood campsite, then enjoy the wildlife and up the gravel track to the “Standing Hat” westerly, and walk back to Standing Hat wonderful scenery on this easy walk. Forestry Commission car park. Keep left car park crossing Etherise Gutter. at the fork towards the car park up a Brockenhurst slight incline. This walk should take you around an hour Brockenhurst, the only village within the and a half and cover approximately 5kms. 3 From Standing Hat car park enter Pignal Perambulation of the New Forest whose value It is always advisable to take an Ordnance inclosure by five-barred gate. in the Domesday survey of 1086 was Survey map and a compass on any walk to doubled (to £4) when that of many others The main attractions of the village are the help you avoid getting lost. was reduced, was also the only village Ford, running across the end of Brookley mentioned as having a church. St. Nicholas, Road, the main shopping area, and the built upon a mound, may date back to Pagan cottages, many of which, built by the times. Roman “bricks” and parts of Second Morant family. St. Saviours’ Church was and Third Century masonry have been built built by Lieutenant-Commander and Mrs. into the South porch and, in the South wall E.W. Walker-Munro, who also enlarged and of the knave, typical herringbone masonry, rebuilt Rhinefield House between 1888 and possibly from an earlier church, can be seen. 1890. Both the doorway and the nave show late Other published walks in the New Norman work. Forest The churchyard contains the grave of “More Walks Around The New Forest” Brusher Mills, the snake catcher, a famous by the New Forest Group, Ramblers’ local character, his headstone being suitably Association provides 17 walks to help you engraved. enjoy the New Forest and its surroundings.

Care free and easy days out in the New Forest