The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery
by John R. Wise
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Chapters (44)
- THE NEW FOREST: ITS History and its Scenery.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
- CHAPTER II. ITS SCENERY.
- CHAPTER III. ITS EARLY HISTORY.
- CHAPTER IV. ITS LATER HISTORY.
- CHAPTER V. CALSHOT CASTLE AND THE OLD SOUTH-EASTERN COAST.
- CHAPTER VI. BEAULIEU ABBEY.
- CHAPTER VII. THE SOUTH-WESTERN PART—BROCKENHURST, BOLDRE, SWAY, HINCHELSEA, AND BURLEY.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE CENTRAL PART—LYNDHURST.
- CHAPTER IX. MINESTEAD AND RUFUS’S STONE.
- CHAPTER X. THE NORTHERN PART.—STONEY-CROSS, BRAMBLE HILL, FRITHAM, BENTLEY, EYEWORTH, SLODEN.
- CHAPTER XI. THE VALLEY OF THE AVON.—FORDINGBRIDGE, CHARFORD, BREAMORE, IBBESLEY, ELLINGHAM, RINGWOOD, SOPLEY.
- CHAPTER XII. THE VALLEY OF THE AVON CONTINUED.—TYRREL’S FORD, SOPLEY, AND WINKTON.
- CHAPTER XIII. CHRISTCHURCH.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE OLD SOUTH-WESTERN SEA-COAST—SOMERFORD, CHEWTON GLEN, MILFORD, HURST CASTLE, LYMINGTON.
- CHAPTER XV. THE GIPSY AND THE WEST-SAXON.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE FOLK-LORE AND PROVINCIALISMS.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE BARROWS.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE ROMAN AND ROMANO-BRITISH POTTERIES.
- CHAPTER XIX. PARISH REGISTERS AND CHURCHWARDENS’ BOOKS.
- CHAPTER XX. THE GEOLOGY.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE BOTANY.—THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS.
- CHAPTER XXII. THE ORNITHOLOGY.
- APPENDICES.
- APPENDICES. APPENDIX I. A GLOSSARY OF SOME OF THE PROVINCIALISMS USED IN THE NEW FOREST.
- APPENDIX II. THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE NEW FOREST DISTRICT.
- APPENDIX III. LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE NEW FOREST DISTRICT.
- APPENDIX IV. THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE NEW FOREST.
- RHOPALOCERA.
- SPHENGINA.
- BOMBYCINA.
- NOCTUINA.
- GEOMETRINA.
- PYRALIDINA.
- TORTRICINA.
- PTEROPHORINA.
- Postscript.
- INDEX.
- FOOTNOTES
- MR. RUSKIN’S WORKS.
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