The Hundred Acre Wood (also spelled as 100 Aker Wood, Hundred-Acre Wood, and 100 Acre Wood; also known as simply "The 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

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, 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 (see the map in the book, as well as numerous references in the text to the characters going "into" or "out of" the Hundred Acre Wood as they go between Owl's house and other Forest locations). However, in the Pooh movies, 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 is in actuality Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in

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, England, where the ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' stories were set. A. A. Milne's country home at Cotchford Farm, Hartfield was situated just north of Ashdown Forest, and ''Five Hundred Acre Wood'' is a dense beech wood that

Christopher Robin Milne Christopher Robin Milne (21 August 1920 – 20 April 1996) was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories a ...

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 remains privately owned, being part of Buckhurst Park estate,Buckhurst Park website
/ref> and is not therefore generally accessible to the public, though two footpaths which are public rights of way, one of which is part of a long-distance footpath, the Wealdway, cross through the wood and may be used by members of the public. 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 (the Galleon's Lap of the Pooh stories) 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. For example, 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,

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, lies away. Five Hundred Acre Wood lies a short distance to the north-east.

Places in the Wood

The following places are shown on

'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 in the books, but not shown on the map include: * The House at Pooh Corner * The Poohsticks Bridge * The Stepping Stones * A Gravel Pit * Pooh's Thoughtful Spot * Galleon's Lap

Residents of the Wood

* Eeyore * Kanga * Lottie * Owl * Piglet *

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* Tigger * Winnie-the-Pooh * Heffalumps

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* Squirrels * Turtle * Woodpecker

In other media

In the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series, the Hundred Acre Wood is located within a book found at Merlin's house (which is in Traverse Town during ''

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'',

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in ''

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'', and Twilight Town in ''

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''). In the games, the main character, Sora, gathers pages of a Winnie-the-Pooh storybook after it is destroyed, affecting the inhabitants. The Hundred Acre Wood is unique in being a totally optional world to visit and entirely lacking in combat, rather being made up of several minigames which reward the player with experience and items.

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