NATURESCENE - NEW FOREST HOME PAGE

<body> <center> <img src="../nslogo.jpg" border="0" width="0" alt="NatureScene" hspace="0" vspace="0" align="right"><br> <font size="+1" color="green" face="Comic Sans MS">Welcome to NATURESCENE'S<br> <b>NEW FOREST HOME PAGE</b></font><br> <font size="-1" color="green" face="Comic Sans MS">the nature lover's choice for exploration<br> of sites of outstanding NATURAL BEAUTY</font> </center> <hr> <center> <a href="./index.htm" target="_parent"><font size="+1" face= "Comic Sans MS">Click here</font></a> <font size="+1" color="red">if the index is not visible on the left</font> </center> <center> <br> Enjoy a <a href="./forest1.htm"><img src="../linkforestslide.gif" alt="Slideshow"></a> or visit the <a href= "./photostart.htm"><img src="../linkphotosforest.gif" alt= "Photogallery"></a> </center> <hr width="70%" align="center" size="4"> <center> <table frame="ALL"> <tr> <td> <img src="../nsfor1.jpg" alt="Longwater Lawn" width="90%" align="middle"> </td> <td> <center> <h2> The NEW FOREST </h2> </center> </td> <td> <img src="../nsfor2.jpg" alt="Beech Tree" align="middle"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> <center> <h2> The Forest of Kings </h2> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <table frame="ALL"> <tr> <td> <img src="../nsfor3.jpg" border="1" alt="Autumn Beeches" align= "middle"> </td> <td> The New Forest in Hampshire, England is a wild area of ancient woodland and wild heaths. For hundreds of years, the New Forest was the ancient hunting preserve of the English Royal Family. The conflict between the local peasants' needs to raise cattle and ponies, and the king's need for hunting deer and providing trees for the naval fleet have left a unique legacy on this rich and attractive landscape. <p> Ponies and cattle roam free in beautiful woodland glades, and make their way across desolate wet and dry heathland. This historic landscape of intense beauty, shaped by man and nature, can now be found nowhere else in the world. </p> <hr width="90%" align="center" size="4"> </td> <td> <img src="../nsfor4.jpg" border="1" alt="Misty bogland" align= "right"> </td> </tr> </table> <hr width="100%"> <hr width="65%" size="5" align="center"> <hr width="100%"> <table frame="ALL"> <tr> <td> <center> <img src="../nsfor5.jpg" width="140" alt="Pony and foal" align= "middle"><br> Wild ponies, cattle and deer </center> </td> <td> <center> <img src="../nsfor6.jpg" width="140" alt="Autumnal dawn" align= "middle"><br> Seasonal moods of gentle lights </center> </td> <td> <center> <img src="../nsfor7.jpg" width="100" alt="Exotic fungus" align= "middle"><br> A wealth of autumnal fungi </center> </td> <td> <center> <img src="../nsfor8.jpg" width="140" alt= "Beech Trees in Spring" align="middle"><br> Ancient and Ornamental Woodlands </center> </td> <td> <center> <img src="../nsfor9.jpg" width="140" alt="Highland Water" align="middle"><br> Gently meandering woodland rivers </center> </td> </tr> </table><font size="2" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS">This site has no advertising or sponsorship, to enable you to enjoy these areas to the full.</font><br> <img src="../logopaypal.gif" alt="PayPal"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="+1" color="red">Please consider <a href="../donation.htm">MAKING A DONATION</a> via PayPal, and help expand this site!</font><br> <hr> <hr> <center> <h2> NATURESCENE visits the NEW FOREST </h2> <h2> A personally conducted tour by <b>DAVID DICKENSON</b> </h2>Author of 'Short Walks in the New Forest' ISBN No.1 85306 159 X <i>Countryside Books, Newbury</i> <p> Sit back for fifteen minutes and enjoy the images and text flip by - no need to touch!<br> The entire tours of the New Forest and the Cévennes, including a<br> full set of hundreds of photos taken through the seasons is </p> <hr> <h2> <a href="./forest1.htm">The NEW FOREST<img src="thumb6.jpg" alt="" align="middle">TOUR starts here</a> </h2><a href="./forest1.htm"><img src="thumb1.jpg" alt=""></a> <a href="./forest2.htm"><img src="thumb2.jpg"></a> <a href= "./forest3.htm"><img src="thumb3.jpg"></a> <a href= "./forest4.htm"><img src="thumb4.jpg"></a> <a href= "./forest5.htm"><img src="thumb5.jpg"></a> <h3> (Don't miss also <a href="../cevennes/home.htm" target= "_top">the<img src="../linkcevennes.gif" alt="Cévennes">tour</a>) </h3> <hr> <h2> <a href="./photostart.htm">PHOTOGALLERY <img src="thumb10.jpg" alt= "" align="middle">(browse individual studies)</a> </h2> <p> These photos are copyright DAVID DICKENSON, but may be used for personal use This site is maintained by DAVID DICKENSON of NATURESCENE © 2003-2009 </p> </center> </body>