This pretty corner of the New Forest is glorious in autumn, with riverside rambles, forest walks and unique traditions
This “beautiful place” sits at the top of the tidal Beaulieu River in the south-eastern New Forest. Founded in the 13th century when Cistercian monks sent from Dijon’swere gifted land by King John to build an abbey here, the village of Beaulieu is today part of the 7,000-acre Beaulieu estate, seat of the Montagu family since the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century.
Autumn is when the “drift” takes place, when ponies are rounded up. Until 22 November, pigs are a feature of the “pannage” – around 600 are allowed to freely graze fallen acorns and nuts that are harmful to the ponies.is a preserved Georgian shipbuilding village of cottages, a hotel, pub and museum, with a modern marina. For more, see thenewforest.co.uk.serves Beaulieu Road from London Waterloo, Southampton Central, Bournemouth and Poole; trains also stop at Ashurst New Forest and Brockenhurst.
The Pig sources its produce from a 25-mile radius and is exceptional. Service is friendly and deeply knowledgeable, and the food memorable. Autumn highlights include roast Jerusalem artichokes with flecks ofand pickled shallots, risotto with roast Crown Prince squash and Old Winchester cheese, and roast Hampshire partridge with bacon and bread sauce. Pannage pork also features on the menu on some days.
Another hour-or-so walk is from the village to Beaulieu Heath via Hatchet Pond. Head out along Hatchet Lane then turn left through a gate to use footpaths to cut across fields towards East Boldre, the Beaulieu Letters and Hatchet Pond – the New Forest’s largest body of freshwater and home to many of the country’s rarest wetland plants – to end among ponies on Hatchet Moor and Beaulieu Heath.
2) Buildings all along the river played a part in the smuggling industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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