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Woodgreen is a village and civil parish within the New Forest district of Hampshire in England.
The village has one pub called The Horse and Groom. The Horse and Groom In 2006 the village shop and post office was threatened with closure, but the village pulled together and acquired the lease for five years. History | Woodgreen Community Shop, retrieved 2 October 2011 On 14 May 2011 a new Woodgreen Community Shop was opened after more than four years of campaigning and fundraising by the local community. Woodgreen Community Shop, retrieved 2 October 2011
Two thirds of the parish is an area of woodland, heathland, acid grassland, scrub and valley bog, supporting a richness and diversity of wildlife. Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest) Page 323, retrieved 2 October 2011
One mile to the south of the village are the earthwork remains of Castle Hill, comprising an oval ring Motte-and-bailey. Godshill Castle Hill, Woodgreen at Gatehouse, retrieved, 2 October 2011 The castle may have been a siege castle recorded in 1148.
When the village hall was built in 1930–1, two students from the Royal College of Art (Robert Baker and Edward Payne) were commissioned by the Carnegie Trust to decorate the walls entirely with murals, depicting village life as it was then. Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest) Page 324, retrieved 2 October 2011 The mural shows poachers looking down from Castle Hill; the Sunday School in the Methodist Church; folk dancing; fruit picking; the Horse and Groom; the village flower show; making cider; and the caretaker lighting the stove.
The building that is now the village church dates from 1913 and was originally a church reading room. St Boniface, Woodgreen, Avon Valley Partnership, retrieved 2 October 2011 In 1949, it was dedicated as a church with the name of Saint Boniface and was extended to its present size in 1963. Since 1927, Woodgreen has been part of the ecclesiastical parish of Hale and Woodgreen, sharing the same clergy and with shared services.
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