Woolmer Forest, Hampshire
Historical Description
Woolmer Forest, a Crown forest chiefly in Hants, but partly in Sussex, extending from N to S, between Selborne and Bramshott, and measuring about 7 miles by 2½. It has belonged to the Crown from a period before the Norman Conquest, is partly enclosed, and figures much in White's " Natural History of Selborne."
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Woolmer Forest are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)