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New Forest

county:


Hampshire
forest, wood

includes New Forest (19th century)
includes New Forest (18th century)
includes New Forest (17th century)
includes New Forest (16th century)
includes New Forest (11th-15th century)

New Forest
otherwise: Nova Foresta, 1086; Noua Foresta; Ytene, 1115; Noveforest, 1154; Nova Foresta Regis, 1231

refce: Coates 1989
NEW FOREST, forest and (within this) a hundred
About 1115 'prouincia Iutarum in Noua Foresta Noua Foresta quae lingua Anglorum Ytene nuncupatur'
Bede, in the Ecclesiastical History puts forward the long accepted idea that there were Jutes in Hampshire at the time when Angles and Saxons were also active in the conquest. This has been disputed on archaeological grounds, but the tradition remains. Florence of Worcester (d. 1118) continues to retail the story, going so far as to call the New Forest by the tribal name 'Ytene'='Jutes'. (Cf Ekwall 1953: 132.)
The forest existed as wasteland before the Conquest. The poor soils rest on Tertiary gravels and sands and can never have supported profitable farming. It was expanded by William I at the expense of more than 20 villages (cf Muir 1981); hence it was 'new' in his time as a single compact area.

New Forest
- forest, royal forest - Hampshire
refce: Colebourn 1995

hearsay
Wood of the Jutes


Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001