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  1. On now to 31 Oct Nerine Exhibition Exbury Gardens
  2. On now to 31 Oct Pumpkin Time at Sunnyfields Farm Sunnyfields Farm · From £7.50
  3. On now to 31 Oct Witchville at Picking Patch Fordingbridge Picking Patch
  4. Wed 7 Oct Ringwood Charter Market Market Place
  5. Thu 8 Oct St Barbe Quiz Night 7pm · St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery · From £15

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Events What's On in the New Forest: Half Term, Then Fireworks on 1 November Lyndhurst's scarecrow trail is 10 and 11 October, pumpkin picking runs every weekend, then Ringwood and Fawley fireworks on 1 November. 50 dates checked. · 11 min read Remembrance Remembrance Sunday in the New Forest 2026: Sunday 8 November Remembrance Sunday is 8 November 2026. Ringwood's parade is at 11.30am; Lyndhurst's service is 10.45am with the parade at noon. Lymington times from 2025. · 6 min read Christmas Father Christmas in the New Forest 2026: Exbury, Beaulieu, Grottos Exbury's Meet Father Christmas runs 28 to 29 November and 5 to 6 December 2026 at £12 a child. Beaulieu has no Santa. Ringwood and New Milton are 29 November. · 7 min read Beaulieu Beaulieu This Winter: Alice's Christmas Wonderland, Hours, Prices Beaulieu opens 10am to 5pm all winter except Christmas Day. Alice's Christmas Wonderland runs 21 November to 3 January, adults £27 off-peak advance to £33 peak. · 4 min read Water Pennington sewage works spilled for 922 hours before its £17m fix Pennington's storm overflow discharged for 922 hours in 2025, the longest of any New Forest works. Southern Water began a £17m upgrade on 15 September. · 7 min read House prices New Forest house prices July 2026: £94 higher than a year ago The district average was £384,977 in July, up £94 on a year earlier and still 8.1% below the 2022 peak. Flats fell 3% and are back at 2020 prices. · 6 min read Crime New Forest Fire Stations Burgled: Burley and Fordingbridge Rescue equipment was stolen from Burley and Fordingbridge fire stations overnight on 5 September. Police want footage from between 4.30am and 5am. · 11 min read Parking New Forest Parking: Council Asks for £24 to £48 Local Pass Councillors want a New Forest residents' parking pass at £24 to £48 against the £96 national rate. Forestry England stopped adding local schemes in 2024. · 6 min read Planning Totton Masterplan: 1,000 Homes and a New Civic Square The draft Totton masterplan sketches around 1,000 homes, a civic square on Library Road and a relocated station. Councillors saw it on 10 September. · 7 min read Licensing Dibden Purlieu Wetherspoon: last orders 12.30am, not 1am The Heath Hotel at Dibden Purlieu is open as a Wetherspoon. Councillors capped alcohol sales at 12.30am every night, not the 1am asked for, after 43 objections. · 8 min read Licensing Sandy Balls licence granted: poolside bar and 4 film nights Away Resorts got everything it asked for at Sandy Balls, Godshill: a poolside bar until 10pm and outdoor films four nights a week, with no season limit. · 7 min read Planning New Forest planning: councillors lose call-in on 31 October Six of the seven cases before the planning committee on Wednesday are there only because a town or parish council objected. That trigger goes on 31 October. · 8 min read
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The New Forest is a working landscape with towns around its edges. Lymington sits on the water with the ferry to Yarmouth, Ringwood is out west on the Avon, New Milton and Totton are at either end of the district, and Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst are inside the forest itself, along with the ponies and the commoners whose animals have the right to be there.

New Forest Daily reports what the public record shows. Two authorities matter here and people mix them up constantly: New Forest District Council runs bins, car parks, licensing and housing, while inside the national park boundary planning applications are decided by the New Forest National Park Authority. We name which one made a decision, every time, and link to its own record.

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  • House prices: the district average is £375,728 and still 10 per cent below its 2022 peak. Every town, with the gap between Brockenhurst and Totton set out.
  • Trains to London: Brockenhurst to Waterloo in 1 hour 32 at best, £7,988 for an annual season, and the times and fares from every station on the line.
  • Roads, parking and travel: what is closed now, the forest car park charges that started in April, and the 40mph limit that exists because the animals are loose.
  • Things to do: twelve days out with prices checked this month, from a £5 forest walk to Beaulieu.
  • Planning: the district can show 1.53 years of housing land against the five it needs, and two Local Plans are being rewritten at once.

Every fact carries a link to the document behind it.