Directory

Pooh Country - Ashdown Forest

Address

Pooh Corner, Hartfield, TN7 4AE

Telephone

01892 770456

E-mail

Website

http://www.poohcountry.co.uk

Visited

168

This is the place for you if you love Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger too or Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Roo. The timber framed building is some 300 years old, dating from around the 1690’s. It has low ceilings and you may have to duck your head to cross the threshold. Once inside, you can browse amongst the largest selection of ‘Pooh-phernalia’ to be found anywhere in the world. When Christopher Robin Milne remembered his childhood in his book ‘The Enchanted Places’ he recalled his weekly trips to the village with his nanny ‘Alice’ and their visit to the shop for bulls-eyes which were their favourites. They lived a mile up the road so his Nanny would bring the young Christopher Robin on the back of their family pet – a donkey called Jessica! Before you start YOUR ‘Expotition’ into Pooh Country, collect your free map from the shop and find all ‘The Enchanted Places’, including the famous Poohsticks Bridge. And, if you take the 50p ‘Expotition’ guide with you, you can return to Pooh Corner, have it endorsed and become ‘Certified’. Pooh Corner is open: Monday - Saturday 9am - 5pm. Sunday & Bank Holidays 11am - 5pm. Closed 25th/26th December and 1st January. Situated: where the B2119 and B2026 join and cross over in Hartfield village.