The Royal Oak

Fronted by a white-painted picket fence, this well renovated pub on the edge of the New Forest is a mile from the beach at Lymington, from where you can look across the Solent to the Isle of Wight and its famed Needles. With Ringwood's Best Bitter, the stronger Fortyniner or a weekly guest ale, the food changes daily on the chalkboard - traditional ploughman's or sandwich; local crab, lobster or fresh fish; steak or game in season; sausages from a butcher's in Sway; or a Sunday roast.