Coordinates: 50°52′44″N 1°37′59″W / 50.879°N 1.633°W / 50.879; -1.633
| New Forest District | |
|---|---|
| — Non-metropolitan district — | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | South East England |
| Non-metropolitan county | Hampshire |
| Status | Non-metropolitan district |
| Admin HQ | Lyndhurst |
| Incorporated | 1 April 1974 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Non-metropolitan district council |
| • Body | New Forest District Council |
| • Leadership | Leader and Cabinet (Conservative) |
| • MPs | Julian Lewis Desmond Swayne |
| Area | |
| • Total | 290.8 sq mi (753.2 km2) |
| Area rank | 47th (of 326) |
| Population (2011 est.) | |
| • Total | 176,800 |
| • Rank | 96th (of 326) |
| • Density | 610/sq mi (230/km2) |
| • Ethnicity | 98.9% White 1.1%South Asian |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC0) |
| • Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) |
| ONS code | 24UJ (ONS) E07000091 (GSS) |
| OS grid reference | SU2581608959 |
| Website | www.newforest.gov.uk |
New Forest is a local government district in Hampshire, England. It is named after the New Forest.
It was created on 1 April 1974, and was a merger of the borough of Lymington, New Forest Rural District and part of Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District.
The district is one of the most populated in England not to be a unitary authority. It was recommended by the Banham Commission to become one in 1995, but this case was vetoed by the government of the day.
Parishes and settlements
- Ashurst and Colbury
- Beaulieu, Boldre, Bramshaw, Bransgore, Breamore, Brockenhurst, Burley
- Copythorne
- Damerham, Denny Lodge
- East Boldre, Ellingham Harbridge and Ibsley, Exbury and Lepe
- Fawley, Fordingbridge
- Godshill
- Hale, Hordle, Hyde, Hythe and Dibden
- Lymington, Lyndhurst
- Marchwood, Martin, Milford-on-Sea, Minstead
- Netley Marsh, New Milton
- Ringwood, Rockbourne
- Sandleheath, Sopley, Sway
- Totton and Eling
- Whitsbury, Woodgreen
Famous quotes containing the words forest and/or district:
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)