In 2005, a special exhibition was installed at the Beaulieu Estate, with a video showing photographs from that era as well as voice recordings of former SOE trainers and agents.

[4][5] The village has remained largely unspoilt by industrial progress and is a favourite stop for tourists in the area, as well as birdwatchers seeking local species like the Dartford warbler, European honey buzzard, and Eurasian hobby.

It has been the ancestral home of a branch of the Montagu family since 1538, when it was seized from the monks and sold during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.

It contains an important collection of historic motor vehicles, including four world land speed record holders: Sir Malcolm Campbell's 1920 Sunbeam 350hp, his son Donald Campbell's 1961 Bluebird-Proteus CN7, the 1927 Sunbeam 1000hp (the first motor car to reach 200 miles per hour (322 km/h)), and the 1929 Irving-Napier Special 'Golden Arrow'.

Camping overnight, a rural invasion, eccentric dress, wild music and sometimes wilder behaviour; these now familiar features of pop festivals happened at Beaulieu each summer, culminating in the so-called 'Battle of Beaulieu' at the 1960 festival, when rival gangs of modern and traditional jazz fans indulged in a spot of what sociologists went on to call 'subcultural contestation'.