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Clive Aslet explores East Sussex's Ashdown Forest, the setting of A.A. Milne's famous stories about Christopher Robin and his toys, Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger and Pooh bear.
Go on an 'expotition' to find the North Pole... in East Sussex.
This week I explore a five-part series on compliance as seen through the lens of Winnie the Pooh and the characters who live in the Hundred Acre Woods: Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga &...
Go on an 'expotition' to find the North Pole... in East Sussex.
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 Co...