Lyndhurst Through the Beer Glass Pt 5 - The Swan

As excitement reaches fever pitch on other pub blogs following the 'unlocking' of pubs, I'm still opting for the Covid free past with last September's pub walk.   If I make it last I might just get to the end of the second wave....  Anyway in the previous post we had left the New Forest Inn and now headed back on the short walk to Lyndhurst...

...which soon hove into view, and there without further ado, was the next pub, The Swan....

...hardly far enough to walk off the last pint.

Despite the temptations of the Ferrari/Maserati garage just down the road in Lyndhurst town centre, the pub car park boasted one of Elon's chariots (space trip on a Space X Falcon Heavy rocket not included).

Inside the pub, there was a strange, even eerie, feeling of the emptiness of space.  We stood at the bar, and waited...no member of staff appeared....a couple of other tourists wandered in....still no bar staff appeared.  So after a few minutes in the Heart of space the New Forest, we decided to forego the wait for the solitary Ringwood Razorback cask, and we wandered out again....

As we headed down Lyndhurst High Street there was the famous church of St Michael and All Angels, a beautiful brickwork design by that prolific church architect, William White and completed in 1869. 

Other well known designers such as William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones were responsible for the stained glass windows....  

..and of course its other claim to fame is that it is the last resting place of Alice in Wonderland,...

...aka Mrs Reginald Hargreaves.