Gills Lap

Ashdown Forest

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

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ViewpointTime here: 45 min – 1.5 h

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Kidd's Hill, Upper Hartfield, TN7 4EU

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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