Alice Holt Forest
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Alice Holt Forest is a royal forest in Hampshire, situated some 4 miles south of Farnham, Surrey. Once predominantly an ancient oak forest, it was particularly noted in the 18th and 19th centuries for
Rural scenery in the Alice Holt Forest
Lodge Pond, Alice Holt Forest
Roman cinerary urn of Alice Holt ware, 2nd century AD, excavated from near Farnham station in 1902.
Western Weald
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The western Weald is an area of undulating countryside in Hampshire and West Sussex containing a mixture of woodland and heathland areas.
Alice Holt Forest
…Romano-British pottery kilns. It was called Alder Holt Wood on the Ordnance Survey Maps Series 1 map 8 of 1 May 1816. The Forest is situated in the western Weald. It lies in the Gault clay vale that separates the chalk ridge which runs between Farnham and Alton from the malmstone (Greensand) hills or "hangers…
The Western Weald seen from Didling Hill
View across the western Weald to Blackdown (centre) and Marley Heights (left).
The historic market town of Midhurst, now to be included in the national park.