New Forest Hotel

The Rufus Stone is one of the oldest monuments of new forests, and a reminder of the origins of the forest itself. The stone, which is clad in iron, which marks the supposed site of King William II (or King William Rufus, he knows it) dead.

In a hunting trip on the 2nd August 1100 William and his men were in the hunt for a deer, when he and Sir Walter Tyrell, King's biggest Archer, was separated from the group. When the King and Mr. Tyrell had deer Sir Tyrell shot an arrow at him, unfortunately, but the arrow struck an oak tree and ricocheted directly into the chest of the king was the arrow, killing him almost instantly. Sir Walter Tyrell, understandably, then fled to France for fear that he would be charged with murder. Supposedly on the way Tyrell was a black horse with a blacksmith and had his back to shoes to the shoe at him confused.

King William's body remained undiscovered until the next morning, when a group of local discovered him in the woods with an arrow in his chest. The nobility had left would lead him to fear that the king's death to a stroke of law and order so afraid of their own products, they fled. It was then passed to a local farmer who has to bear the king's body Winchester Cathedral for the funeral, so the legend.

There is another version of events, however. The option of the story is that Sir Walter Tyrell deliberate killing the king, who was disliked by his own court, his people and the church and was regarded as a ruthless tyrant. Norman's ambition and the general reluctance Rufus create a strong and convincing conspiracy theory, even after hundreds of years and only two witnesses long since dead, perhaps it is a story where we never know the truth.

Although the oak, which now has such a central role in the death of the king no more, put an oak that there is a direct descendant in its place.

After visiting the stone, why not the end of Sir Walter Tyrell pub, where you can enjoy a drink muse, whether it was an accident or not and if the pub was named after a murderer, a liberator, or just a very unhappy person .