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Ashurst Station. Ashurst is a village in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England, which together with Colbury hamlet makes the parish of Ashurst and Colbury. Ashurst is on the A35 road near the Southampton conurbation. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 2,011, increasing to 2,093 at the 2011 Census. [1]
Ashurst is a small village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) north of the town of Steyning.The parish covers a large area (2,494 acres (1,009 ha)) [1] and consists mostly of well-spaced farms and other scattered buildings, but a small settlement had developed around the Horsham—Steyning road by the early 16th century. [2]
It lies just inside the New Forest. The hamlet contains a mix of 18th and 19th century cottages, [1] just south of the village of Bramshaw. There are two inns in Brook on opposite sides of the road - The Green Dragon and The Bell Inn. [2] [3] Both buildings date from the 18th century, albeit with 19th and 20th century alterations.
Emery Down is a small village clustered around a hilltop overlooking Swan Green and Lyndhurst. [1] The village has one inn called The New Forest Inn. [2] The red telephone box in the village no longer has a phone, but is used as an Information Centre for local and New Forest information, history, advice, as well as a book exchange and as a place to purchase fruit and vegetables.
[10] The famous New Forest "snakecatcher" Brusher Mills was reported living in an old charcoal burner's hut by the boundary of nearby Gritnam Wood in around 1895. [ 11 ] The Liberal MP , Robert John Price , was a resident of Bank, [ 12 ] as was the Liberal M.P. John Fletcher Moulton , [ 13 ] who, when he entered the House of Lords in 1912, took ...
Colbury is a small village in the civil parish of Ashurst and Colbury, in the New Forest district, in the county of Hampshire, England. The village lies along Deerleap Lane, [ 2 ] near the modern village of Ashurst , in the New Forest National Park .
The hamlet of North Gorley sits on the western boundary of the New Forest National Park, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of South Gorley. The River Avon lies just to the west. The hamlet has one inn , The Royal Oak, which claims to be a former Royal hunting lodge . [ 1 ]
Until the 1967 forest perambulation fencing, New Forest ponies were free to roam its streets. The town's built up area has swollen significantly since the later half of the 20th century and now forms a near continuous web of development with surrounding villages, with Ower , Netley Marsh and Ashurst in particular having little or no discernible ...