Fordingbridge is on the River Avon (Image: Getty) A tiny town that is full of cosy pubs is sandwiched between two of the UK's best-loved national parks. Fordingbridge in Hampshire sits on the River Avon. Just two miles to its east is the beautiful New Forest, and just a few more miles to its north and west lies the Cranborne Chase National Landscape - the sixth-largest protected landscape in the UK.

Despite being home to just 6,000 people, this charming town is packed with places to stay, and can be an ideal base from which to explore two beautiful parts of England. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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