Highwood is a hamlet in the
New Forest
The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, fea ...
National Park of
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
, England. According to the Post Office the population of the hamlet at the 2011 Census was included in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of
Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley is a civil parish in the west of the English county of Hampshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 1,171.
The civil parish was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of the three titular village ...
. Its nearest town is
Ringwood, which lies approximately 1.5 miles (2.2 km) south-west from the village.
Hamlets in Hampshire
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