There's a kind of irony seeing this sunset in The New Forest. The first house that my new wife and I purchased was in The East London district known as Forest Gate. It was so named because it was the location of a gate erected in the 17th century to control cattle, preventing them from straying from Epping Forest. Nowadays as much as fifty percent of Epping Forest has been lost to urban development and an ever expanding London.
The New Forest, on the other hand, has protected it's 140,000 acres of heathlands and woodlands, it's still much the same size it was centuries ago.