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Lyndhurst pubs

Crown Hotel (A)
The Crown, Lyndhurst

Location: Almost opposite the parish church, at the top of Lyndhurst High Street

Postcode: SO43 7NF (for Sat Nav and Google Maps users)

Food: Yes - Bar and Grill

Garden: Yes

Accommodation: Yes

The Crown Hotel, Lyndhurst - historical image
A glimpse of the past - The Crown Hotel
as it was in the 19th century

At the bar:

Flack's Double Drop
Peroni Nastro Azzurro Lager
Corona Lager

(All details as at May 2017)

Fox and Hounds (B)
Fox and Hounds, Lyndhurst

Location: Mid-way along Lyndhurst High Street

Postcode: SO43 7BG (for Sat Nav and Google Maps users)

Food: Yes

Garden: Yes

Accommodation: No

The Fox and Hounds, Lyndhurst - historical image
A glimpse of the past -
a Lyndhurst street scene featuring the
Fox and Hounds and also, on the right,
the now defunct Volunteer Arms

At the bar:

Fuller’s London Pride
Gales HSB
Gales Seafarers
Amstel
Heineken
Peroni
Fuller’s Frontier
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Camden Brewery Gentleman’s Wit
Guinness
Fuller’s Organic Honeydew
Aspall’s Cyder
Cornish Orchard’s Gold

(All details as at March 2015)

Mailmans Arms (C)
Mailmans Arms, Lyndhurst

Location: At the bottom end of Lyndhurst High Street

Postcode: SO43 7BE (for Sat Nav and Google Maps users)

Food: Yes, including all day availability on Saturdays and Sundays, and cream teas in season.

Garden: Yes

Accommodation: Yes

The Mailmans Arms and The Stag Hotel, Lyndhurst - historical image
A glimpse of the past -
The Mailmans Arms and The Stag Hotel

At the bar:

Abbot Ale
Greene King IPA
Bolton's Bench Forest Bitter
Guinness
Stella Artois
Foster's
Staropramen Lager
Budweiser
Strongbow
Thatchers Gold Cider

(All details as at May 2017)

Stag Hotel (D)
Stag Hotel, Lyndhurst

Location: At the bottom end of Lyndhurst High Street

Postcode: SO43 7BE (for Sat Nav and Google Maps users)

Food: Cream teas, and a full menu available all day from 12.00 noon.

Garden: Yes

Accommodation: Yes

The Stag Hotel, Lyndhurst - historical image
A glimpse of the past - The Stag Hotel
during the great blizzard of 1908

At the bar:

Abbot Ale
Greene King IPA
Old Speckled Hen
Guinness
Stella Artois
San Miguel
Carlsberg
Peroni Nastro Azzurro Lager
Aspalls Suffolk Cider
Thatchers Gold Somerset Cider

(All details as at May 2017)

Waterloo Arms (E)
Waterloo Arms, Lyndhurst

Location: Pikes Hill, off the A337 Cadnam road, 0.75 kilometres from Lyndhurst centre

Postcode: SO43 7AS

Food: 12.00 noon - 9.00 pm (9.30pm on Friday and Saturday)

Garden: Yes

Accommodation: No

At the bar:

Ringwood Fortyniner
Ringwood Best
Sharp’s Doom Bar
Sharp’s Pilsner
Guinness
Carling
San Miguel
Aspalls Suffolk Cider
Addlestones Cloudy Cider
Magners Original Irish Cider
Rekorderlig Dry Apple Cider
Thatchers Gold Somerset Cider

(All details as at May 2017)

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** New Forest ponies and other animals**
The New Forest
Commoners' ponies, cattle, pigs, sheep and donkeys are a popular part of the New Forest scene, but during 2019 agisters attended 159 road traffic accidents involving these animals, a small but disappointing increase on the 154 accidents attended in 2018.

Sadly, 58 animals were killed - 35 ponies, 13 cows, 8 donkeys and 2 sheep, whilst a further 32 were injured - 3 pigs, 9 donkeys, 11 cows and 9 ponies.

(Forty-three accidents occurred in daylight, 15 at twilight and 101 in the dark. Twenty-seven accidents were not reported by the driver involved).

Here's just one horrific example - Three donkeys killed in collision with van at notorious New Forest blackspot (Advertiser and Times)
** Always take care when driving **
New Forest seasonal highlights
March
Lesser celandine blooms illuminate woodlands, and heathland edges.
Fallow deer remain in single sex herds, the bucks at this time always separate from the does.
Curlews return from the coast to breed in and around the New Forest's wetter areas.
Red admiral butterflies are increasingly seen on bright, sunny days.

April
Redstarts are amongst the first returning long-distance migrant birds that arrive in April.
Large red damselflies take to the wing, the first of many such species that will soon be seen in the New Forest.
Bluebells blossom, sometimes in good numbers in ungrazed woodlands.
Badger cubs usually first appear above ground towards the end of the month.
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