I visited the famous forest that inspired Winnie the Pooh — and keeps kids entertained as much as Disneyland
For The Sun, Tracey went home to Ashdown Forest — the real Hundred Acre Wood — to mark 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh. Three-mile Pooh Walk from Gills Lap, Poohsticks Bridge, and the Pooh-seum in Hartfield with cream teas and honey on toast.
Marking a century of Winnie-the-Pooh, Tracey went back to Ashdown Forest — where she grew up playing Poohsticks and where A.A. Milne actually lived, in Hartfield on the fringes of the 6,500-acre ancient woodland. For The Sun she walked the three-mile Pooh Walk from Gills Lap through the Enchanted Place, Galleon's Leap and Eeyore's Gloomy Place, crossed the original 1907 Poohsticks Bridge, and dropped into the Pooh-seum at Pooh Corner (the 18th-century cottage where Milne and Christopher Robin bought sweets). Learned that Winnie was named after a Canadian black bear at London Zoo, Pooh after a local swan. And crucially: still wins at Poohsticks. B&B doubles at The Bear from £120.