Travel: The New Forest: No promises about trees

From: The Independent - London | Date: September 14, 1996| Author: Simon Calder | Copyright information

Autumn is irrelevant for most of the New Forest. That is not so much because stubbornly evergreen conifers have overtaken the deciduous varieties, ravaged by foresters, disease and hurricane. It is more because much of the New Forest is actually an ancient and mostly treeless heath. So the best way to tell that August has finally yielded to September is to look at the traffic. The dreary, nose-to-tail summer convoy of sightseers has receded, leaving southern England's improbably expansive wi...

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