Life moves as slowly as cold honey in the New Forest, where wild ponies trot through picturesque woodland, while farm-to-table restaurants draw in frazzled Londoners looking for a countryside escape.
Encompassing parts of Hampshire and Wiltshire, stretching out towards east Dorset, the national park in England’s southeast is home to 193,000 acres of woodland, 40 miles of sun-speckled coastline and charming villages such as Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst, which offer up some of the finest spa hotels around.
