Ashdown Forest

A vast ancient heathland of sweeping purple moorland and twisted oaks — the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood.

From King's Cross St Pancras: 1 h 49 min by train · 2 h 1 min by car

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Time there: 1–2.5 h to see all 2 places

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Must-see places

Poohsticks Bridge

Landmark · The little wooden footbridge where Pooh, Christopher Robin and friends dropped sticks into the stream, and where visitors still do.

Gills Lap

Viewpoint · A pine-crowned hilltop that Milne turned into the Enchanted Place, with wide views over the heath and the Weald.

Quick facts

This is the real Hundred Acre Wood: A. A. Milne walked here with his son Christopher Robin, and Christopher wrote that Pooh's Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical.

Open heath on the highest ridge of the High Weald, rising to 223 m, with long views across the Sussex and Kent countryside.

Over half of the forest is open heathland of heather and gorse, with pine clumps and woodland around it, and walks start straight from the roadside car parks.

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