Brockenhurst is a village located in the New Forest in the county of Hampshire of England. The area is very popular amongst tourists who are visiting the national park of the New Forest. In spite of her small size of the village, Brockenhurst also has its own college with as many as 8000 adult learners coming to the town each year to study. This is about the same number as the people who actually live there which is also about 8000.
The exact time the town was established is uncertain, but signs of habitation of the area dates back as far as 4000 years during the Bronze Age. There are many burial mounds scattered around the area which show signs of this. The town was mentioned in the Domesday Book which recorded four Saxon man is in the surrounding area at the time. The town was particularly hard hit by the plague, when a third of the country’s population perished.
The town rapidly grew in the end of the 18th century when the town of Lymington nearby started to become a significant town in the a salt industry. Tourism started to come to the town with the arrival of the railway in the 19th century and at this time the population also boomed. The town also played an important role during the First and Second World War wars. A number of meetings between Eisenhower and Montgomery took place here and this is where the D-day landings were planned as well.
Today, the village continues to grow and there are a number of housing developments under construction around the village. There are frequent trains going all the way to London, Southampton and Weymouth.
Some areas of interest to visitors to the town include the Brockenhurst College, the Lymington Flyer and saint Nicholas’s church amongst others. The town is twinned with a small commune in France called Pont St Martin.
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