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Dist:0.2km<br/>The north-east facing slopes in the north of Gritnam Wood are well-populated with old beech, such as the specimen in this photograph. Note recent growth of smaller branches low down on the trunk.

©Jim Champion

Dist:0.3km<br/>With wooden balustrades over an un-named stream; on the lane to Bank.

©Mike Faherty

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©David Martin

Dist:0.3km<br/>The settlement of Gritnam was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a manor in Brockenhurst. Its name is possibly from the Old English for "estate at the gravelly place". Nowadays it is a tiny hamlet down a tiny lane from the hamlet of Bank, in the sylvan setting of Gritnam Wood.

©Jim Champion

Dist:0.3km<br/>Track through oak and beech woodland, with holly in the under-storey; holly berries showing well.

©Mike Faherty

Dist:0.4km<br/>Forestry practice in open woodland in the Forest calls for fallen trees to be left to decay naturally, giving shelter to countless species of animal and plantlife; this tree shows at least half a dozen species of fungi.

©Mike Faherty

Dist:0.4km<br/>Pinkney Lane takes a right-angled turn at the northwest corner of the Brick Kiln Inclosure, which is bordered by open woodland and a rather soggy hill-top lawn.

©Jim Champion

Dist:0.4km<br/>SW of the village. Pony looking into the house.

©Julian Dowse

Dist:0.4km<br/>Semi-open woodland South of Bank, composed of oak and beech, with holly in the under-storey.

©Mike Faherty

Dist:0.4km<br/>"Lawn" is a New Forest name for expanses of grassland that are kept closely grazed by ponies or other livestock. There are ponies nearby, but not on view here.

©Mike Faherty

Dist:0.4km<br/>On Pinkney Lane, denying livestock from Gritnam Wood access to Bank settlement.

©Mike Faherty

Dist:0.5km<br/>On Pinkney Lane, on the way to Lyndhurst.

©Mike Faherty

Dist:0.5km<br/>At the house, several miles of forest cycle track comes to an end.

©Trevor Harris

Dist:0.5km<br/>Cycleway, footpath and forest road from Gritnam Wood to Whitley Wood.

©Mike Faherty

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©Julian Dowse

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