Selborne Common (NT)
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Overview
The National Trust manages 267 acres of countryside around Selborne. The largest area, Selborne Common, lies on the hill to the west of the village, while the valley meadows and woodlands of the Lythes lie beyond St Marys Church to the east. The Reverend Gilbert White (1720-1793) was a pioneering naturalist. For most of his life, he lived in a house in Selborne called The Wakes. His book - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne - was first published in 1789, and has been in print ever since. It provides an invaluable record of the landscape and its wealth of wildlife, including descriptions of many now rare plants and animals.
About the area
Hampshire’s varied landscape of hills and heaths, downlands and forests, valleys and coast are without rival in southern England. Hike across the chalk downland of the north Hampshire ‘highlands’, meander along peaceful paths through unspoilt river valleys of the Test, Itchen, Avon and Meon, or explore the lonely salt marshes and the beautiful medieval forest and heathland of the New Forest.
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