Forest that inspired Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood hit by fire

Andrew Mepham/iStock(LONDON) — Firefighters in England battled a blaze that broke out in the forest that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood, the setting for the Winnie the Pooh books. Fire crews from several departments worked in “arduous conditions” Sunday night to put out the fire in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, Hannah Scott-Youldon, assistant director …

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