Foxbury

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Pricing details

No admission charge is published. The site has no regular public access and opens for special events and pre-arranged educational groups; individual events may be ticketed separately.

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The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

The Trust's sat nav note: 'Input postcode SO51 6AQ and look out for our National Trust car park just off Blackhill Road, with a sign for Half Moon Common.' By bus: alight at East Wellow Whinwhistle Corner, head west along the A36 towards Wellow, turn left over the cattle grid into the New Forest on Blackhill Road and continue 1 km; the entrance to Foxbury is on the left through Half Moon car park. No charge or tariff is published.

The map pin is the Trust's own point, which sits within 35 metres of geograph photos of the Trust's car park and the gate into Foxbury off Blackhill Road, so it marks the car park rather than the estate centre.

Foxbury is a fragile conservation site with no regular public access; the car park serves events and pre-arranged educational visits. By road: 7 miles north of Lyndhurst via the A337, 7 miles north-west of the M27/A31 junction via the A36, 15 miles south-east of Salisbury via the A36, 13 miles east of Fordingbridge via the B3078.

About

Foxbury is a 150-hectare heathland restoration project on the northern edge of the New Forest near East Wellow, bought by the National Trust in 2005 after years as a commercial conifer plantation. The conifers are gradually giving way to lowland heath and native broadleaved woodland, and the site is already home to nightjars, Dartford warblers, glow worms, bats, deer, reptiles and insects, with Belted Galloway cattle and New Forest ponies grazing beneath newly exposed oaks. In summer the ground is coloured by gorse, heather, orchids and foxgloves. This is a fragile conservation site with no regular public access: it opens for special events and for educational groups by prior arrangement, when visitors explore from a basecamp along miles of all-weather gravel tracks suitable for buggies and motorised wheelchairs, with den building and bug hunting for children. One tip: access is through the Trust's Half Moon Common car park off Blackhill Road, so check event details first. Dogs on leads are usually welcome at events, with some exceptions.

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Foxbury is a fragile conservation site with no regular public access. It opens for special events and for educational groups by prior arrangement; the Trust publishes no opening calendar and no events were listed on 15 October 2026.

During events visitors explore from a basecamp along all-weather gravel tracks suitable for buggies and motorised wheelchairs, used for family walks, running, cycling and horse riding; outdoor seating at basecamp and log seating beside the tracks.

An all-access compost toilet is at basecamp. Contact the Mottisfont office on 01794 340757 or mottisfont@nationaltrust.org.uk to hire the site for recreational or educational use.

Dogs on leads are usually welcome, but check the specific event information for any exceptions.

Photo: Large pond at Foxbury, framed by oak branches with rushes in the foreground. David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Large_pond_at_Foxbury_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6182695.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.

Dogs at the location: Allowed with restrictions. Dogs on leads are usually welcome when the site is open for events, but individual events may exclude them; there is no general public access.

Dog walks in the grounds: Allowed with restrictions. Dogs on leads can walk the gravel tracks during events or arranged visits only; cattle and ponies graze the site and the heath holds ground-nesting nightjars and Dartford warblers.

Leads: On leads at events; grazing cattle and ponies and ground-nesting birds on the heath.