A. A. Milne set. Milne lived on the northern edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm, , and took his son walking there. E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books. The adult Christopher Robin commented: "Pooh's Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical." Popular tourist locations at Ashdown Forest include: "Galleon's Lap", "The Enchanted Place", the "Heffalump Trap" and "Lone Pine", "Eeyore’s Sad and Gloomy Place", and the wooden "Pooh Bridge" where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks. Not yet known as Pooh, he made his first appearance in
Matt Milne Matt Milne Matt Milne (born 1990) is an English actor of stage and screen whose career includes roles in independent and blockbuster films. Milne was born in Hereford, in the West-Midlands of England. In 2010, he filmed Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" based on the book of the same name by Michael Morpurgo playing a character not in the book: Andrew, a farm hand. He graduated from the University of East Anglia with a B.A. in 2011. During Autumn 2011, Milne performed with the National Youth Theatre in James Dacre's reimagining of the ancient legend Orpheus and Eurydice at the Old