New Forest Folklore
18 entries in the New Forest Folklore compendium.
Battle of CamlannLegendary final battle of King Arthur, of disputed historicity.Beaulieu AbbeyKing John's sole religious foundation, now a haunted ruin.Beaulieu Palace HouseA 13th-century gatehouse turned Gothic country house.Breamore HouseElizabethan manor house open to visitors, home of the Hulse family.William Brewer (justice)Administrator, judge, and founder of three abbeys.Buckland RingsIron Age hill fort with triple banks and double ditches in Lymington.William Gilpin (priest)Cleric and artist who originated the idea of the picturesque.GlasshayesA haunted New Forest house with a smuggling past and Conan Doyle link.Hawkhurst GangA notorious 18th-century smuggling gang from Kent.Hurst CastleTudor fort guarding the Solent, later a prison for Charles I.Alice LisleLast woman judicially beheaded in England, executed after the Monmouth Rebellion.NatanleodA British king likely invented to explain a place name.New Forest covenAlleged coven that inspired Gardnerian Wicca.Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duke de StacpooleAnglo-French aristocrat whose ghost is said to haunt Glasshayes.John Stratford (verderer)Medieval verderer and landowner linked to the Stratford Lyon legend.William II of EnglandRufus: a king killed by an arrow in the New Forest.John Richard de Capel WiseWriter and natural historian of the New Forest.YernagateA giant who threw a man to the moon.
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