New Forest (district) - Definition and Overview

New Forest District
Shown within Hampshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Hampshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 49th 753.21 km²
Admin. HQ:	Lyndhurst
ONS code:	24UJ
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 86th 170,256 226 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.9% White
Politics
New Forest District Council http://www.nfdc.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Julian Lewis, Desmond Swayne

New Forest is a local government district in Hampshire, England. It is named after the New Forest.

It was created on April 1, 1974, and was a merger of the borough of Lymington, New Forest Rural District and part of Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District.

The district is one of the most populated in England not to be a unitary authority. It was recommended by the Banham Commission to become one in 1995, but this case was vetoed by the government of the day.

Parishes and settlements

• Ashurst and Colbury
• Beaulieu, Boldre, Bramshaw, Bransgore, Breamore, Brockenhurst, Burley
• Copythorne
• Damerham, Denny Lodge
• East Boldre, Ellingham Harbridge and Ibsley, Exbury and Lepe
• Fawley, Fordingbridge
• Hale, Hordle, Hyde, Hythe and Dibden, Lymington, Lyndhurst
• Marchwood, Martin, Milford-on-Sea, Minstead
• Netley Marsh, New Milton
• Ringwood, Rockbourne
• Sandleheath, Sopley, Sway
• Totton and Eling
• Whitsbury, Woodgreen
• Godshill

Districts of England - South East England
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Administrative counties with multiple districts: Berkshire - Buckinghamshire - East Sussex - Hampshire - Kent - Oxfordshire - Surrey - West Sussex