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Mind your language: Top 10 Forest words
The New Forest has a strong heritage of Romany and dialect words
Sucker = foal
Fuzz acker = Dartford warbler
Cackleberry = hen's egg
Fire bladder = pimple on the face
Wossett = small, ill-favoured pig
Bunny = culvert
Stoachy = muddy ground
Blackjack = burnt gorse stems
Zoomi = broth, soup
Crink-crank = long words not understood properly

Nominal interest: Top 10 place-names
(All genuine)
Sandy Balls near Fordingbridge and Godshill
Anthony's Bee Bottom near Burley
Little Stubby Hat near Lyndhurst
Slap Bottom near Burley
Stinking Edge Wood not far from Bolderwood
Mouse's Cupboard not far from Picket Post
Dunces Arch near Lyndhurst
Custards on the outskirts of Lyndhurst
Wood Crates near Millyford Bridge
Freeworms Hill near Fritham

Tales of the unexpected: Top 10 unlikely features of the New Forest
A theme park - Paulton's Park near Ower
A history of witchcraft - Burley
A power station and oil refinery - Fawley
The National Motor Museum - Beaulieu
A former nuclear bunker - Lepe
HQ of one of the world's largest chemicals companies - INEOS, Lyndhurst
A sales yard for ponies - Beaulieu Road
A motorway - a small section of the M27
A tide mill - Eling
Place where some of Nelson's ships were built - Buckler's Hard

Wild things: Top 10 Forest flower-names
Mouse-ear hawkweed
Glandular eyebright
Sneezewort
Pignut
Lesser skullcap
Nit-grass
Bastard balm
Suffocated clover
Bristle bent
Corky-fruited water-dropwort

Exotic locations: Top 10 improbable places in the Forest
Canada
Bohemia
Nomansland
Portuguese Fireplace
Spaniard's Hole
Newfoundland
Normandy
Lover
Bank
Tiptoe

Named spaces: Top 10 Forest car parks
Smuggler's Road
Moonhills
Pig Bush
Standing Hat
Shatterford
Shave Wood
Horseshoe Bottom
Shepherd's Gutter
Godsill Pit
Goatspen