Ashdown Forest

 Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest is located in East Sussex, England. This massif of High Weald, an area of 2630 ha, looks like a heather moorland dotted with pine, birch and oak.
 This is the familiar landscape of the stories of Winnie the Pooh, designed by the English writer AA Milne. A public debate is engaged to his classification in the national park. Ashdown Forest is a remnant of primary forest Anderida, became the Weald. Films were frequently it turns for television as for the cinema: for example, some scenes from the HBO-BBC co-production entitled Band of Brothers.

Ashdown Forest history

 

Ashdown Forest was reserved for royal hunting from the thirteenth century.

The piles fence that forbade access demarcated an area of about 50 km2, where they hunted deer. The forest was already attended by King Edward II of England for hunting deer. The iron mining has also played an important role in the history of the forest, since they have felled the trees for charcoal needed to develop metals.








But in the 1800s, farmers who live around the forest of Ashdown had become accustomed to graze their cattle in the woods, and harvested bracken, heather and gorse (that is to say, "litter") for heating and thatched roof houses and barns. Case law was constituted on the occasion of the Affair of Ashdown Forest: October 13, 1877, John Miles harvested litter in the Ashdown Forest on behalf of his master, Bernard Hale (lawyer, Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex Ashdown MP in the House of Commons), when William Pilbeam, a forester in the service of the Counts De La Warr, ordered him to leave. Miles refused to comply, triggering a criminal episode fameux3: Reginald Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, Lord of the Manor Duddlewell, lodged a complaint against Hale and Miles because he challenged the Hale rights to exploit the stately forest as we did communaux4 of goods.