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Entrance Lobby > The Library > Subject Index > Curiosities and Oddities > New Forest - Other Curiosities
Entrance Lobby > The Library > Geographic Index > Hampshire > New Forest > New Forest General Articles > New Forest - Other Curiosities
Here you will find details of the other oddities scattered across the forest that don't fit anywhere else.
Entrance Lobby > The Library > Subject Index > Ships and Boats > Rivers and Lakes > Cracknore Hard
Entrance Lobby > The Library > Geographic Index > Hampshire > New Forest > New Forest South Eastern Area > Cracknore Hard
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OS Ref: SU401110
Last Visited: 2002
Public Hard with views across to Southampton. Once the home of the British Military Powerboat Trust which closed 30th September 2005 when the lease terminated.
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Entrance Lobby > The Library > Geographic Index > Hampshire > New Forest > New Forest South Eastern Area > St Leonards Grange
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OS Ref: SZ405982
Last Visited: 2002
The remains of a huge Tithe Barn reputed to have been one of the largest in the country. Originally, St Leonard's was one of the four granges of Beaulieu Abbey.
The other three were at Otterwood SU408020, Bergerie SZ393977 and Boverey (Beufre) SU386010 Farms. However, there are no substantial remains at any of these sites.
Round the corner from the barn are the remains of a seventeenth century chapel and the grange farm itself. None of these buildings are open to the public, but they can be easily seen from the roadside.
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OS Ref: SU285159
Last Visited: 2002
Boundary Stone on
Stagbury Hill
About half way up the side of Stagbury Hill is a small stone that appears to be inscribed ER (or EB) 1823.
It is marked on the OS Map as a Boundary Stone, an odd thing to find on common land.
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Entrance Lobby > The Library > Geographic Index > Hampshire > New Forest > New Forest South Western Area > Sway Tower
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OS Ref: SZ279967
Last Visited: 2005
Easily spotted from a distance, the Sway Tower is surprisingly difficult to track down once you get close, and even more difficult to photograph.
Built in 1879 by Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson a retired Indian judge (and sometimes known as Peterson's Folly) it sores 66m (218ft) over the surrounding countryside. It is now used as a private house and a cell phone mast.
There is absolutely no public access to the tower, despite massive amounts of public money having been spent on it, and it is shut away behind solid iron gates with decidedly unfriendly locals.
Look out for the small prototype tower Peterson built some 150m to the north of the main one.
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I have a workshop in the old turkey farm at the base of the litle tower. This tower has been restored fairly recently, the trees around the base have been removed and replaced by a harge conservatory that now appears to link the tower to the house. the crack has been repaired and the upper part of the tower has been partly rendered.
I used to have dealings with Mr. Atlas who owns the large tower when he had a second-hand shop in Pokesdown, Bournemouth called "Steptoe & Sons" (gives you some idea of how long ago this was) but have not seen him since moving into the workshop.
Entrance Lobby > The Library > Geographic Index > Hampshire > New Forest > New Forest South Eastern Area > Tanners Lane
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OS Ref: SZ363952
Last Visited: 2004
One of the few places within the bounds of the unenclosed forest where the general public have access to the sea.
Apparently, you can sometimes see New Forest ponies on the beach, but not when I've been there.
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