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New Forest

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About New Forest

The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featuring in Domesday Book.

On the show โ€” 8 mentions total

There's only one species of cicada in the UK. It's called the New Forest Cicada. We think they live in the New Forest, but they might have died out, because no one's seen one for about 10 years.

from No Such Thing As Planet George, 2016-01-29 at 00:22:32 ยท read transcript

Other times New Forest came up

  1. There's all these images in the 18th century of people hanging these weird sort of cutouts on the side of trees to show the shapes of people. Makes so much sense, doesn't it? Yeah. Then did they actually, the new forest was just planted for boats, wasn't it? A lot of it, yeah. The new forest, yeah, I live there, so my boring new forest fact is that a forest does not designate woodland.

    541: No Such Thing As A Sycamore In A Silver Coat, 2024-07-25 ยท listen

  2. Know, tough stuff Dan's down with his pigs in his front room going up You've opened up something because my wife is desperate to be a corner and we have failed so anyway I think we need more because house prices in the New Forest have gone up quite a lot.

    541: No Such Thing As A Sycamore In A Silver Coat, 2024-07-25 ยท listen

  3. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, be in the 1987 storm in the New Forest, knockdown loads of trees, but it's certainly a big storm in the late 80s, knockdown load of trees in the New Forest and they got all of the timber from there.

    480: No Such Thing As President Muffler, 2023-05-26 ยท listen

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