Hundred Acre Wood


The Hundred Acre Wood is a part of the fictional land inhabited by Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Winnie-the-Pooh series of children's stories by author A. A. Milne. The wood is visited regularly by the young boy Christopher Robin, who accompanies Pooh and company on their many adventures.
In A. A. Milne's books, the term "Hundred Acre Wood" is actually used for a specific part of the larger Forest, centred on Owl's house. However, in most of the adaptations, and in general conversation with most Pooh fans, "The Hundred Acre Wood" is used for the entire world of Winnie-the-Pooh, the Forest and all the places it contains.
The Hundred Acre Wood of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories was inspired by Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England. A. A. Milne's country home at Cotchford Farm, Hartfield was situated north of Ashdown Forest, and Five Hundred Acre Wood is a dense beech wood that Christopher Robin Milne would explore on his way from Cotchford Farm onto the Forest. Five Hundred Acre Wood is long-established, having been originally sold off from the Forest in 1678. The wood is part of the Buckhurst Park estate, is privately owned, and is not therefore accessible to the public. Two footpaths, including the Wealdway, cross through the wood and are available for public use.
Milne was inspired by the landscape of Ashdown Forest to use it as the setting for his Winnie-the-Pooh stories, and many features from the stories can be identified with specific locations in the forest. The car park at the hilltop of Gills Lap in Ashdown Forest,, contains a display panel with a map of the surrounding area and the features from several of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories marked on it. Five Hundred Acre Wood lies a short distance to the north-east, while the "Enchanted Place" is a small wooded area to the north. A memorial plaque dedicated to A. A. Milne and his illustrator, Ernest H. Shepard, lies away. Five Hundred Acre Wood lies a short distance to the north-east.
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Places in the Wood

The following places are shown on Ernest H. Shepard's map at the beginning of the Winnie-the-Pooh book:
  • Pooh Bear's House
  • Kanga's House
  • The Sandy Pit Where Roo Plays
  • A Nice Place for Picnics
  • The Bee Tree
  • The way to the North Pole
  • An area with Big Stones and Rocks
  • Rabbit's House
  • An area for Rabbit's Friends-and-Relations
  • Christopher Robin's House
  • The Six Pine Trees
  • The Pooh Trap for Heffalumps
  • Piglet's House
  • Where the Woozle Wasn't
  • A Floody Place
  • Owl's House
  • Eeyore's Gloomy Place
Additional places mentioned and shown in the books, but not shown on the map include:

Residents of the Wood

Original Milne books

Disney materials only

  • Beaver
  • Buster
  • Darby
  • Gopher
  • Stan
  • Heff
  • Wooster
  • Kessie
  • Lumpy
  • Porcupine
  • Raccoon
  • Skunk
  • Squirrels
  • Turtle
  • Woodpecker

Other works

  • Lottie

In other media

The Hundred Acre Wood appears as a recurring location in the Kingdom Hearts video game series, where it is located in a book owned by Merlin. The Hundred Acre Wood does not have any enemies, with its gameplay largely consisting of minigames. Introduced in Kingdom Hearts, the Hundred Acre Wood makes subsequent appearances in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, and Kingdom Hearts III.

Twisted Childhood Universe

The Hundred Acre Wood is featured in the Twisted Childhood Universe.
  • In Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood suffer from a famine shortly after Christopher Robin leaves for college. Pooh, Piglet, Owl and Rabbit consume Eeyore to survive, although the trauma causes them to revert to their animalistic instincts and develop a hatred towards Christopher and the rest of humanity. They begin committing murderous acts towards anyone who stumbles upon the woods.
  • In Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, the Hundred Acre Wood makes a return, while also highlighting the origins of Pooh and his friends. They are revealed to be kidnapped children who were experimented on by a mad scientist before having their bodies buried in the woods, only for them to resurrect as feral creatures.