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I believe that New Forest is the location for these oaks, can anyone verify :
New College, Oxford, England has a dining hall that was built 350 years ago. Its roof is supported by a series of 40-foot long beams made of brown oak which recently were found to be decayed and in need of replacement. The college authorities contacted a contractor who specialized in this type of work and indicated that they wanted the new beams to be similar to the original ones, preserving the architectural integrity of the building. They were told that brown oak of the needed dimensions was not available anywhere in the United Kingdom. Not wanting to take no for an answer, New College contacted the local Oxford forester to see if this were true. "We've been wondering when you'd ask," said the forester. It seems that when the dining hall was built, the architect went to the person who was then the Oxford forester and asked him to plant a stand of brown oaks, because he knew those ceiling beams would need to be replaced in about 300 years.
The trivia section of the New College web page dismisses this story because the 1862 remodelling was preceded by one a century before. The oaks did not come from New Forest. 169.207.90.173 09:56, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)
The change just made to the map (adding the Lord Lieutenency area of "" to Hampshire) need explanation for me - why are they necessary? As a local they make no sense. -- Webmink 00:41, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Someone just added "It is also the largest contiguous area of un-sown vegetation in Europe." Does anyone have source for this please? I feel assertions like this need to be supported if they are to be allowed to stand. -- Webmink 21:12, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I am failing this article for the following reasons:
Conversely, there should be a picture of Rufus Rock where it's discussed ... there are a bunch over at that article.
I have added this article to the Protected Areas project; I believe looking at it from that perspective would greatly help improve it (the infobox for starters). It seems to fall into IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) due to the combination of private and public land, developed and undeveloped areas (I have worked on a similar one in the form of Catskill Park — I don't know if you could get any ideas from that one). Good luck. Daniel Case 03:45, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Ben 12:16, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Images - Over the past 2 years I have posted nearly 1000 photos of the New Forest on the geograph.org.uk website, each with a grid reference and description - see this search results page. They are all licenced with a Creative Commons attribution licence, which means they can be put onto Wikimedia commons no probs. I see someone has already done that with the Ibsley Common photo, although the geograph pics are only 640x480 pixels in size. I can upload the original hi-res photos onto wikimedia commons if necessary. If its mentioned in this Wikipedia article, I've probably photographed it. And if I haven't, someone else on geograph.org.uk probably has....
In this article as it currently stands, the pic of the miniature pony is a little unrepresentative (the vast majority of ponies on the Forest are 'full size') and I agree with the above comments about the Buckler's Hard photo. I've moved it to the gallery on the Beaulieu River article. JimChampion 19:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Just to clarify deletion just done from the Wildlife section...
I've removed the sentence:
This statement is untrue in several important respects. There has been no official programme to introduce American mink Mustela vison to the New Forest, nor to anywhere else in the UK – certainly not in the past few decades, and I don't think ever. Most introductions have been opportunistic escapes from fur farms.
There were indeed releases close to the New Forest in about 1997, from a mink farm at Crow near Ringwood (about a mile from where I live). However, these were hardly a "programme", but were vandalism done by so-called animals rights activists. Most of the mink actually returned voluntarily to their tiny cages, or provided a slight and temporary deadening effect on local road-noise. There was some effort to kill the survivors, but it was not organised, and so could not really be called a cull. Finally, few people would be at all surprised at mink being devastating to poultry, and indeed to wildlife.
Personally I don't think there is any need to mention mink at all in this article – feral mink are not really any more or less prevalent here than elsewhere in the UK. If it is mentioned at all, I think it should be along the lines of "In the late 1990s Ringwood, on the edge of the New Forest, was the location of an illegal mass release of several thousand farmed American mink by animal liberation activists. Most of the animals were soon recaptured or killed, but some probably strengthened existing populations in the area." Richard New Forest 09:05, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone else think that New Forest (National Park) should be created, and all mention of the national park (apart from a wikilink) moved to the new article? It's a very recent development in the life of the forest, and doesn't have the same boundaries or legal status as the ancient forest. (On the other hand, the forest doesn't have a definite boundary in any case.) -- Northernhenge ( talk) 22:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). The material was copied from: http://www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/index/lookingafter/la-landscape/archaeology/coastal.htm. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:21, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
I've uploaded a location map of the New Forest to Commons (shown to right). I have not created an associated {{ location map}} template, but this can easily be done if desired.
If this is created, it allow enable creation a map of the New Forest similar to the one under construction at Talk:Dartmoor#Location map, and could be used in related articles (see this example). Hope people find it useful.-- Nilf anion ( talk) 22:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
http://www.newforestcentre.org.uk/uploads/publications/65.pdf
may be of some use.© Geni 18:20, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Comments such as "Many houses with common rights are now owned by migrants to the area (largely from cities) who have no interest in keeping the practice going, and are often only there for part of the year anyway." The assertion of new ownership is not backed up by figures and the attitude of the new owners is purely the authors opinion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.224.97.89 ( talk) 09:41, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
In my opinion, the map size needs to be decreased a little on the 'History' section of the article as it has misaligned the text for the section. I feel that this may make the presentation of the article a little unprofessional in my opinion. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 12:19, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
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