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'... there are several ways of approaching Beaulieu, but perhaps none is more pleasant than across Beaulieu Heath, a stretch of about three miles from Boldre. Southward lies the cultivated and rich valley land, northward and at your back the forest, and you traverse a wild and picturesque heath that might well belong to Scotland, instead of to the southernmost corner of England.'
Horace G Hutchinson, The New Forest, pages 127-8