New Forest District

Coordinates: 50°52′44″N 1°37′59″W / 50.879°N 1.633°W / 50.879; -1.633

New Forest New Forest District
Non-metropolitan district
New Forest shown within Hampshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South East England
Non-metropolitan county	Hampshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Lyndhurst
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	New Forest District Council
• Leadership	Leader and Cabinet (Conservative)
• MPs	Julian Lewis Desmond Swayne
Area
• Total	290.8 sq mi (753.2 km²)
Area rank	47th (of 326)
Population (mid-2014 est.)
• Total	178,907
• Rank	99th (of 326)
• Density	620/sq mi (240/km²)
• Ethnicity	94.9% White British 2.67% White Other 0.94% Asian 0.35% Black 1.14% Other
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
ONS code	24UJ (ONS) E07000091 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SU2581608959
Website	www.newforest.gov.uk

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

It was created on 1 April 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

Ceremonial county of Hampshire

Hampshire Portal

Unitary authorities	City of Portsmouth City of Southampton

Boroughs or districts	Borough of Basingstoke and Deane District of East Hampshire Borough of Eastleigh Borough of Fareham Borough of Gosport District of Hart Borough of Havant District of New Forest Borough of Rushmoor Borough of Test Valley City of Winchester

Major settlements	Aldershot Alton Andover Basingstoke Bishop's Waltham Blackwater Bordon Eastleigh Emsworth Fareham Farnborough Fleet Fordingbridge Gosport Havant Hedge End Hythe Lee-on-the-Solent Lymington New Alresford New Milton Petersfield Portsmouth Ringwood Romsey Southampton Stockbridge Tadley Totton and Eling Waterlooville Whitchurch Winchester Yateley See also: List of civil parishes in Hampshire

Rivers	Avon Beaulieu Hamble Itchen Meon Test Wallington Wey

Topics	Parliamentary constituencies Places SSSIs Country houses Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings South Coast Plain South Downs History Schools Further education Museums Lord Lieutenants High Sheriffs

Districts of South East England

Berkshire	Bracknell Forest Reading Slough West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham

Buckinghamshire	Aylesbury Vale Chiltern Milton Keynes South Bucks Wycombe

East Sussex	Brighton and Hove Eastbourne Hastings Lewes Rother Wealden

Hampshire	Basingstoke and Deane East Hampshire Eastleigh Fareham Gosport Hart Havant New Forest Portsmouth Rushmoor Southampton Test Valley Winchester

Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight

Kent	Ashford Canterbury Dartford Dover Gravesham Maidstone Medway Sevenoaks Shepway Swale Thanet Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells

Oxfordshire	Cherwell Oxford South Oxfordshire Vale of White Horse West Oxfordshire

Surrey	Elmbridge Epsom and Ewell Guildford Mole Valley Reigate and Banstead Runnymede Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tandridge Waverley Woking

West Sussex	Adur Arun Chichester Crawley Horsham Mid Sussex Worthing

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