 |
Squatter's Cottage, East Boldre - 1912 map *E. W. Haslehust (1866-1949) |
|
|
 |
|
| Squatter settlements on
New Forest common land was a regular feature in the eighteenth century,
the East Boldre settlement had probably grown up
when the ship building industry at Bucklers Hard was flourishing.East
Boldre Website It was stated in the vestry minutes of 1797, that a number of encroachments being made in the forest within the Parish by the erection of mud cottages and the inability to suppress them without the assistance of the parish, it was resolved that a sufficiency of men be hired to aid throwing out the encroachments, at the expense of the poor rate. |
|
| *Haslehust was a keen nature lover and painted fascinating views of the countryside, villages and towns before the First World War. (Detail taken from the painting Squatter's Cottage) | |
| Site Map |