A. A. Milne set his famous Winnie the Pooh stories in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England. In this beautiful forest you can still find the Enchanted Places mentioned in the books. During your visit you may also spot some Fallow deer which roam freely in the forest.

This site is called Gills Lap after a real place on the top of Ashdown Forest. A. A. Milne renamed this enchanted place Galleons Lap, in his books.

" Being Enchanted its floor was not like the floor of the Forest, gorse and bracken and heather but close-set grass, quiet and smooth and green. It was the only place in the Forest where you could sit down carelessly without getting up again almost at once and looking for somewhere else. Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky, and whatever there was all the world over was with them in Galleons Lap"

In 1979 The Conservators of Ashdown Forest agreed to the placing of a memorial dedicated to Milne and Shepard in the forest. To visit the memorial, park in Piglet's Car Park, and walk up the steep pathway. When you reach the top, turn left and you should see the memorial in the distance. Print out my hand drawn Pooh Places Map

You can obtain more information from

The Ashdown Forest Centre
Wych Cross
Forest Row
East Sussex
RH18 SJP