Rockford Common Sand Pit

Nearby to Rockford Farm is the Rockford Common Sand Pit. It’s a fantastic place to have a picnic and for the kids to play on and slide down.

From the New Forest National Park website:

In the 1950s, sand was extracted from this enormous pit by the cart load by Bert Shutler. Richard Deacon, a local Commoner, remembers watching the Ruston Bucyrus front shovel excavator at work in his childhood. There is a Scheduled Ancient Monument above the sand pit and ongoing erosion of the sand is putting this monument at risk, so please do not access the pit.