Whitsbury is a part of a group of villages on the edge of the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

[4] The land rises generally from south to north, reaching a height of 120 metres at Whitsbury Castle Ditches, and Iron Age hill fort.

[5] The main employment is based upon the very successful equine and agricultural industry, comprising 4 major yards of racing stables, stud.

[6] Consequently, the people-intense nature of these businesses has allowed Whitsbury to retain a charm that has been lost in many other villages and communities.

[3] Another slightly later source states that Henry I had given the manor to Godfrey de Vilur, and it was he who transferred it to the abbey.

[3] In 1222 the Abbot of Reading obtained a grant of twenty oaks in the New Forest for mending his houses at Whitsbury.