Gills Lap
A pine-crowned hilltop that Milne turned into the Enchanted Place, with wide views over the heath and the Weald.
From King's Cross St Pancras: ~1 h 51 min by train · 2 h by car
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Time there: 30 min – 1.5 h
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Quick facts
Milne renamed it Galleons Lap in the Pooh stories, where it is the Enchanted Place.
A memorial plaque to A. A. Milne and the illustrator E. H. Shepard stands on the hilltop.
The open ground around it looks out over gorse-covered heath to the distant Weald.
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