Minstead is a small village and civil parish in the New Forest, Hampshire, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Lyndhurst.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's grave is under a large tree at the back of the 13th-century All Saints' church.

The majority of the parish area is a complex of woodland, heathland, acid grassland, scrub and valley bog, supporting a great richness and diversity of wildlife.

There is also a gallery, open to the public from March to October, as well as a tree house and play area for children.

[4] It was on or near this hillfort that a medieval beacon was situated, receiving signals from Marchwood and from Freshwater on the Isle of Wight.

[8] Henry Compton was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1758 and was a noted racing man, being an original member of the Jockey Club founded in 1753.

His son Henry became Sheriff of Hampshire in 1819 and took a prominent part in suppressing the 1830 Swing riots at Fordingbridge.

[6] Minstead Lodge was built in about 1830 by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Pery Buckley and is today used to provide training in hospitality and catering for people with learning disabilities.

On the 26 March 1936 an Commercial Air Hire, De Havilland Dragon (G-ACAP) crashed near the town following engine failure, killing all five on board.

Commercial Air Hire had a contract to fly at night to give searchlight crews practice at locating aircraft.

[12] The village pub is called The Trusty Servant and has an unusual sign of a man with a donkeys ears, a pig's snout and a stag's feet.

[13] The grave of the novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for his Sherlock Holmes books, is under a large tree in the churchyard.

Sir Arthur was originally buried in a vertical position in Crowborough in East Sussex, and was re-interred in Minstead by the family of his deceased first wife after the death of the second Lady Conan Doyle.

The Hall is the largest of its kind in the New Forest and is used for auctions, dances, theatrical productions, an annual Flower Show, a bridge club, pre-school play group and many other events organised both from inside and outside the village.