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The Buckler’s HardStory and Maritime Museum is charming and well preserved. In the shop, there,you’ll see a huge figurehead from HMS Gladiator, which was launched atBuckler’s Hard in 1782. You’ll also find reconstructed 18th-century cottageinteriors which shed light on the history of the village and the river on whichit stands. It’s not so much a step as a long jump back in time. Very little haschanged here since 1800 when this was a shipbuilding centre. Three of the shipswhich fought under Nelson at Trafalgar were built here, and the Maritime Museumrecreates the lives of the shipbuilders of the time through the use of dummiesand soundtracks. Beyond the museum are twin rows of shipbuilders cottages,beautifully preserved, as well as a chapel and a pub. If you can spare thetime, it’s worth taking a walk along the river, into the hamlet of Beaulieu.When we got there, we rewarded ourselves with tea at the Montagu Arms Hotel. Itcosts £5.50 per head, and you have your tea in a lovely conservatory, lookingout onto the terrace and gardens. You can drink Russian Caravan loose-leaf tea,and enjoy a full complement of sandwiches, scones and shortbread. There’snothing more English. The B3054 road leads back to Lymington, where there’sparking available at Gasport Street and Cannon Street. Once a prosperous townthanks to its spa and seaport, there are many charming houses, and cobbledstreets. Nowadays, it’s a popular yachting centre, and the Lymington River iscrowded with sails. Milford on Sea is a further three miles away. You can parkright next to the seafront there and take a swim or a clifftop walk. It’s oneof few remaining coastal villages on the south coast today. Some five milesnorth on the B3058 brings you to Burley Villa School of Riding from where youcan ride out into the New Forest on western or English saddles. The school hasbeen run for 25 years. English riding, known as ‘hacking’, costs £25 perhour. A two-hour forest trail ride costs £45, with the option of awestern-themed ‘sunriser’ trail (with cooked breakfast) or a ‘sundowner’ trail(followed by a barbecue). “We also do a ‘dude day’,”  “where we ride out to Rhinefield OrnamentalDrive and have a barbecue there. It’s always popular.” The B5038 meets the A35again in another two miles. Join this eastbound and turn immediately left ontoan unclassified road for Burley, which you’ll enter in a further two miles. Thecar park there is the only one we came across with a height barrier, but aroundthe back of the coach park is another, informal car park on an open field whichwill accommodate motorhome hire. Take a Burley Wagon ride to explore the area.It departs from the Queen’s Head pub car park, and the short trail lasts 20minutes (£5), the long trail one hour (£12). Within a few minutes, on bothrides, you’re going through ancient woodland past the church and onto the quietlanes around the village. In town, you’ll probably bump into Daisy and Dawn,the village donkeys, who are often guilty of holding up traffic trying to windthrough the narrow little village, but no-one minds. The story of the Burleywitch, a white witch who arrived in Burley during the 1950s, has seen twovillage shops spring up opposite each other, with tales of her doings and anarray of charms for sale. After another mile of unclassified road, turn west on the A31 for Ringwood, whichlies on theAvon, just beyond the Forest’s National Park Boundary. Trout fishing is a bigdraw and this busy market town is full of Georgian and Queen Anne houses. In1685, after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the Duke of Monmouth7illegitimate son of Charles II, was captured and held near here before beingtaken to London and executed. Six miles further along the A338 isFordingbridge, also on The River Avon. It used to be the only exit route to thewest from the New Forest, and during the time of William the Conqueror a guard was posted on the old bridgehere to arrest deer poachers before they could escape. Head east for 12 mileson the B3078 through the expanses of the New Forest’s heath and (which turns a beautiful purple colour in latesummer when the heather blooms and the green bracken is high) then turn right ontoan unclassified road at Brook and you will arrive at Stoney Cross, home to theRufus Stone. The Stone marks the spot where King William II, who was alsocalled Rufus because of his ruddy complexion, was killed by an arrow whilehunting here in 1100, Who shot the arrow, and whether it really was anaccident, has all descended into myth and allegation, but tradition says it wasSir Walter Tyrell who, probably wisely, fled to France. This seemed like afitting place to complete my tour - right at the heart of the New Forest, onlythree miles from where I’d began it at Ashurst a number of nights previously. Although the likes of Beaulieu and Milford on Sea are great reasons to head outbeyond the park’s perimeter, it is here in the middle, with all the forest’swild diversity, that you find the essence of the place.