New Forest District

New Forest
Non-metropolitan district
The Redbridge Bridge in Totton
Motto:  "Old yet ever new"
New Forest shown within Hampshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South East England
Non-metropolitan county	Hampshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Lyndhurst
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	New Forest District Council
• MPs	Julian Lewis Desmond Swayne
Area
• Total	290.8 sq mi (753.2 km2)
• Rank	43rd (of 296)
Population  (2022)
• Total	175,942
• Rank	119th (of 296)
• Density	610/sq mi (230/km2)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 96.8% White 1.3% Mixed 1.2% Asian 0.4% Black 0.4% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 51.1% Christianity 40.9% no religion 6.1% not stated 0.6% Islam 0.5% other 0.3% Buddhism 0.3% Hinduism 0.2% Judaism 0.1% Sikhism
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	24UJ (ONS) E07000091 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SU2581608959

New Forest is a local government district in Hampshire, England. Its council is based in Lyndhurst, although the largest town is Totton. The district also includes the towns of Fordingbridge, Lymington, New Milton and Ringwood. The district is named after and covers most of the New Forest National Park, which occupies much of the central part of the district. The main urban areas are around the periphery of the forest. The district has a coastline onto the Solent to the south and Southampton Water to the east.

The neighbouring districts are Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, Wiltshire, Test Valley, Southampton and Eastleigh (across Southampton Water). The district also faces the Isle of Wight across the Solent.