In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described No Mans Land like this:

NO-MANS-LAND, an extra-parochial tract in the district of New Forest and county of Wilts; 10½ miles S E of Salisbury. Acres, 620. Pop., 149. Houses, 33.

No Mans Land through time

No Mans Land is now part of NEW FOREST District. Click here for graphs and data of how NEW FOREST has changed over two centuries. For statistics about No Mans Land itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of No Mans Land, in New Forest and Wiltshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12033

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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