Guidebook for the New Forest and Cranborne Chase

Emma
Guidebook for the New Forest and Cranborne Chase

Food Scene

1) Main restaurant has exceptional quality food and wine 2)Hip bar is great for just going for drinks 3) The Herb House is a daytime restaurant for relaxing lunches with amazing vegetarian and vegan options Staff are super
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Lime Wood
Beaulieu Road
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1) Main restaurant has exceptional quality food and wine 2)Hip bar is great for just going for drinks 3) The Herb House is a daytime restaurant for relaxing lunches with amazing vegetarian and vegan options Staff are super
Great pub in the heart of the forest with a large garden. Great for a long walk's end.
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High Corner Inn
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Great pub in the heart of the forest with a large garden. Great for a long walk's end.
One of our favourite pubs. An amazing landlord called Chris, sumptuous food and a great vibe! Go...
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The Rose and Thistle
Rockbourne Road
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One of our favourite pubs. An amazing landlord called Chris, sumptuous food and a great vibe! Go...
Fabulous after a forest walk. Great staff, hip vibe, good food!
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The Potting Shed hyde
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Fabulous after a forest walk. Great staff, hip vibe, good food!
Exceptionally good pub with really super staff!
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The Fleur de Lys Inn
5 Wimborne St
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Exceptionally good pub with really super staff!
Amazingly chic restaurant with top quality food and wine.
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La Fosse at Cranborne
8-9 The Square
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Amazingly chic restaurant with top quality food and wine.
Hip London vibe, yet in bucolic setting. Everyone loves it!
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The Pig
B3055
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Hip London vibe, yet in bucolic setting. Everyone loves it!
Country food with Dorset feeling, really lovely!
Cartwheel Inn
Country food with Dorset feeling, really lovely!
Oh the beer is ace, the pizzas adored and their music nights legendary!
Sixpenny Brewery
Oh the beer is ace, the pizzas adored and their music nights legendary!
It’s a truly wonderful walk from The Georgian Coach House, across the fields to this Mill for afternoon tea! It takes about an hour.
Alderholt Mill
Sandleheath Road
It’s a truly wonderful walk from The Georgian Coach House, across the fields to this Mill for afternoon tea! It takes about an hour.

Arts & Culture

Fabulous eclectic personal Victorian collection from several world tours. Includes many pre-Raphaelite works and extraordinarily wonderful sculpture. An amazing museum for its size. Set high on the East Cliff of Bournemouth.
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Russell Cotes Museum station
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Fabulous eclectic personal Victorian collection from several world tours. Includes many pre-Raphaelite works and extraordinarily wonderful sculpture. An amazing museum for its size. Set high on the East Cliff of Bournemouth.
Adore this historical country home. Try and talk to the Head Gardener, he is incredibly knowledgeable!
Edmondsham House & Gardens
Adore this historical country home. Try and talk to the Head Gardener, he is incredibly knowledgeable!
Neil Lucas won 10 RHS Golds and has been on the board for 10 years. What a master of garden creativity!
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Knoll Gardens
Stapehill Road
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Neil Lucas won 10 RHS Golds and has been on the board for 10 years. What a master of garden creativity!
Wide variety of sculptural, dance and graphic exhibitions. Plus a great café/restaurant with Latin American Chef!
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Messums Wiltshire
Court Street
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Wide variety of sculptural, dance and graphic exhibitions. Plus a great café/restaurant with Latin American Chef!
I wrote on the gardens here recently. Erwin Kraan the Head Gardener is wonderful and the setting unforgettable!
Fonthill House
I wrote on the gardens here recently. Erwin Kraan the Head Gardener is wonderful and the setting unforgettable!
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Wilton House
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I grew up just outside the grounds and it’s on your way back to London. It exudes grandeur and the best of creativity through the centuries.
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Hrad Highclere
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I grew up just outside the grounds and it’s on your way back to London. It exudes grandeur and the best of creativity through the centuries.
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Kingston Lacy
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Parks & Nature

Oh this is just gorgeous! You can walk for miles on the ridge!
Frogham Car Park
Abbots Well Road
Oh this is just gorgeous! You can walk for miles on the ridge!
One of our favourite places to walk; utterly beautiful!
Godshill
One of our favourite places to walk; utterly beautiful!
Millyford Bridge Inclosure
A35

Shopping

The House’s gardens are open on Wednesdays in the summer- go! There is a liitle café here and a sumptuous shop! What’s not to adore?
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Cranborne Garden Centre
Wimborne Street
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The House’s gardens are open on Wednesdays in the summer- go! There is a liitle café here and a sumptuous shop! What’s not to adore?
Local farm-to-fork vibe , lots of organic products! Newly opened, we go here frequently!
Fordingbridge Farm Shop
Whitsbury Road
Local farm-to-fork vibe , lots of organic products! Newly opened, we go here frequently!
Fabulous home grown flowers and blueberries! PYO option and café too! Love it!
Brothers Farm Flowers
Stapehill Road
Fabulous home grown flowers and blueberries! PYO option and café too! Love it!
Much of the produce is reared here on the farm. Just lovely people. Has their own butcher. Café here too!
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Hockey's Farm Shop
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Much of the produce is reared here on the farm. Just lovely people. Has their own butcher. Café here too!
Boutique run by lovely local women. Rather chic and has a boho twist…
Luxury Bubble Limited
60 High Street
Boutique run by lovely local women. Rather chic and has a boho twist…
It’s always cool to pick up high quality’recycled’ furniture when on holiday!
Salisbury Antiques Centre
94 Wilton Road
It’s always cool to pick up high quality’recycled’ furniture when on holiday!

Entertainment & Activities

Art Deco glory restored by local benefactor. The bar itself is worth a visit! Wonderful and beautifully brought back to life!
The Regal Cinema, Fordingbridge
35 Shaftesbury Street
Art Deco glory restored by local benefactor. The bar itself is worth a visit! Wonderful and beautifully brought back to life!
Modest theatre of great quality, with a lively repertoire!
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The Tivoli Theatre
19 West Borough
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Modest theatre of great quality, with a lively repertoire!
Such fun! Just go!
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New Forest Water Park
Ringwood Road
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Such fun! Just go!
Great team who provide super forest frolics on well kept horses!
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Bagnum Equestrian Centre
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Great team who provide super forest frolics on well kept horses!

Getting Around

Fabulous vintage car rentals in the midst of the New Forest; hire an Aston Martin, MG Midget, MGA or an E type, you will love it!
New Forest Classic Cars Ltd
Palace Lane
Fabulous vintage car rentals in the midst of the New Forest; hire an Aston Martin, MG Midget, MGA or an E type, you will love it!