Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire "I thought you’d be interested, that we have sighted a family of wild boar on our land which is in the Forest of Dean. Our neighbour has/had a lovely garden until a week ago, where they have systematically dug up the whole of her lawn. Its about two acres!
There appears to be a pair and five young. They have dug up some of our mown paddock that we own and are seen every morning early in our fields just rooting around with their young. Taking a hasty retreat when disturbed and rushing at fences and going thru them, although they haven’t been chased. We have been approached by the forestry commission who monitor their whereabouts."
near Sevenoaks, Kent
Wild boar rooting of a lawn in a residential lawn in Kent, September 2011 
(reproduced with kind permission of P. Baker).
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New Forest, Hampshire
Wild boar rooting of a lawn in a residential area near the New Forest, December 2008 (reproduced with kind permission of B. Luck).
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Wild boar rooting near houses in the Forest of Dean, March 2008 (Martin Goulding).
As always, comments are very welcome - particularly if you have first hand experience of such an event. Please email British Wild Boar.
To wet our appetites of what to expect in extreme cases, here are photos of rooting damage in an urban area of the United States. These rootings are actually from feral pigs, but they give an indication of what may happen in the UK one day?!
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...nice fencing to keep the feral pigs out, not at all unsightly!
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USA (reproduced from 
