The Ashdown Forest reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest is a forest in East Sussex in England. It consists of large open area of heathland together with pine, birch and oak woodland in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is famous as the setting for the Winnie the Pooh stories. Poohsticks Bridge, Galleon's Lap, Roo's Sandpit, the North Pole, the Hundred Acre Wood and the dark and mysterious forest can all be found in Ashdown Forest.

Ashdown Forest was once a royal hunting ground and was originally protected by Act of Parliament in 1885.

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This is the "Ashdown Forest" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.