Forest Park Hotel was originally a vicarage, built on a forest site granted by the Crown, and paid for by John Morant, whose family once owned 425 acres around Brockenhurst in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Part of the Forestdale Hotel Group. Forest Park became a hotel in 1902 and, apart from being used as a military hospital in World War One, has remained as a hotel to this day. Robin Collins has owned Forest Park Hotel since 1968 and has made many alterations and additions during this time.