The New Forest

Business events in Lyndhurst

One date coming up, mostly on Saturdays at 18:30, £49.46.

Checked 19 Oct1 coming up

No photograph of Lyndhurst we have checked yet, so its initial stands in.

After work.The one date is Saturday 21 November at 18:30.
£49.46.Every date here has a ticket price, shown on its row.
One room.One organiser runs them, at Minstead Lodge.

What’s on in Lyndhurst

Every date, nearest first.

Saturday 21 Nov

18:30The Lodge After Dark: wedding suppliers' celebrationAfter work in Lyndhurst, 18:30 to 23:30. £49.46, open to all. Checked 19 Oct

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About Lyndhurst

A village in the middle of the New Forest National Park, long called the forest's capital, where the Verderers still have their court. Small, busy with visitors, and surrounded by open forest.

The forest's old capital

Lyndhurst began as a royal manor, and the National Park Authority's history of the village dates its recorded story to 980AD and its name to the Saxon for "lime wood". When William the Conqueror made the New Forest his hunting ground, Lyndhurst became the place kings stayed and the forest was run from, which is why it is still called the capital of the New Forest.

That role has not quite gone. The Verderers, the body set up under the New Forest Act of 1877 to regulate commoning on the forest, still give their address as the King's House in Lyndhurst: the royal manor house that the Park Authority's factsheet, written under the late Queen, calls the Queen's House, and the oldest building in the village.

A small place with a lot of visitors

Lyndhurst is a village, not a town, and its business life looks like it: shops, tearooms, pubs, hotels and places to stay along the High Street and round the edges. The National Park Authority's factsheet describes it as a classic honeypot, popular because of its history and because it sits in the middle of the national park, with open forest coming right up to the village at Bolton's Bench. The centre has been a conservation area since 1977.

That popularity brings traffic. The same factsheet records the highway authority trialling signs on the M27 to send visitors round the High Street at busy times. If you are coming to an event here in summer or at a weekend, allow time for the road in.

Getting here

There is no railway station in Lyndhurst: the Southampton to Bournemouth line, built in 1847, passes to the south of the village. Most people arrive by road. The main car park, behind the High Street, is a large pay and display car park run by New Forest District Council, and the New Forest Heritage Centre stands in it, with several parking spaces for disabled visitors beside the centre.

Events listed here have used rooms such as Lyndhurst Community Centre. For more of the forest, see Brockenhurst, which has a station on the main line, and Cadnam on the M27, or the whole of the New Forest.