![Ashdown Forest, the Real Hundred Acre Wood](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe0b144d610986319793717/a2a8454f-1bfa-4214-83da-745ef790a667/2020-08-16_14-55-38_523etd_ST.jpg)
Ashdown Forest, the Real Hundred Acre Wood
When I visited Ashdown Forest, the real Hundred Acre Wood of A.A. Milne’s beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, in August 2020, I was on a quickly executed and minimally planned trip across the English Channel from France just before the borders closed again due to rising cases of COVID-19. Years earlier I read online that it was possible to play Poohsticks on the very bridge (albeit rebuilt in the pattern of the original) where A.A. Milne played with his son, Christopher.
![The Peak District](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe0b144d610986319793717/1611064304809-1UJ74MP3NANDL250CABI/The+Peaks+2_FB.jpg)
The Peak District
…this feels like an ideal place to walk, forget about your family troubles, and reconsider the character of the man whose proposal you refused.