National parks were established to protect and preserve unspoilt areas and one of those is the New Forest National Park in the United Kingdom. The park is not only home to the lovable New Forest Pony, but also deer and other types of animal and birds.

According to Shoestring Travel, the whole territory of the New Forest National Park used to once be open land.

Centuries and centuries ago The New Forest was to all intents and purposes open land but then one of the kings on of the day decided to make it a royal forest only to be used for the royal pursuit of hunting, and local folk who had lived off the land for centuries found themselves unable to hunt the land for food to feed their family, penalties for contravening the law were severe and in later time fatal.

The New Forest National Park is also a perfect place to spend your time biking, riding a horse or just waking around.

A holiday in the New Forest opens up a wide diversity of activities for those on vacation here from simply going on one of the forest walks to mountain biking (only not too many mountains here so very suitable for younger children) and if you are a horse rider then you will be in seventh heaven as there are no riding restriction across the open country side.

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