Like many visitors to a new place, you may want to negotiate with a map. The first one to pop to mind may be Shepard’s beautifully hand-drawn Hundred Acre Wood, with treehouses, rivers, and woods. I am often asked if these two places are one and the same. Can Shepard’s map be used as a guide to Ashdown Forest? Though charming, that map is fictional but based on real places in the landscape – some of which we can visit today.
Christopher Robin’s House
The first stories in Winnie-the-Pooh were inspired by places at home where Christopher Robin played. A key feature at the entrance to Cotchford Farm was an old walnut tree with a deep crevice. It stood for more than 200 years and came down in the early 1970s. Either an English or black walnut tree, it was the original tree where the real Christopher Robin played and inspired his father to write stories in which treehouses are so prevalent.
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