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Alice Holt Forest
Alice Holt Forest is a royal forest in Hampshire, situated some south of Farnham, Surrey. Once predominantly an ancient oak forest, it was particularly noted in the 18th and 19th centuries for the timber it supplied for the building of ships for the Royal Navy. It is now planted mainly with conifers. The Forestry Commission took over the management of the forest in 1924, and a research station was set up in 1946 in the Alice Holt Lodge, a former manor house. The forest is now part of the South Downs National Park, which was established on 31 March 2010, and it forms the most northerly gateway to the park.
==Toponymy==
The first part of the name, ''Alice'', is believed to be most likely derived from Ælfsige, Bishop of Winchester in AD 984, whose See (or Diocese) had rights over the forest, and was responsible for the land on behalf of the king. It is suggested that the name then became corrupted, with the name ''Alfsiholt'' being found in documents before the Norman Conquest (and later in 1169), followed by ''Alfieseholt'' in 1242, ''Halfyesholt'' in 1301, ''Aisholt'' in 1362/63〔This particular form of the name is noted by Gilbert White (1789) in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, ''Letter 9 also to Thomas Pennant, Esq.'' He cites ''Rot. Inquisit de statu forest in Scaccar. 36 Edward III'', which covers the year 1362/63. According to White, ''Ayles Holt'' also appears in old records.〕 and finally ''Alice Holt'' in 1373.〔(Forestry Commission web-page, 'History of Alice Holt Lodge', from which this sequence of place-names, apart from ''Aisholt'', is taken. Retrieved 2011-10-13 )〕 The second part of the name is derived from the Old English ''holt'', a wood or thicket, usually a managed wood of a single species.
Other, less plausible, suggestions have been made that Alice could be a corruption of ''alor'', Old Englisn for alder, or ''ysel'', Old English for ash, referring to the ashes left in the woods by the once numerous Romano-British pottery kilns.〔(Forestry Commission website, 'About Us'. Retrieved 2011-10-13 )〕 It was called Alder Holt Wood on the Ordnance Survey Maps Series 1 map 8 of 1 May 1816〔(OS Map Series 1 Map 8 Surrey )〕
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