Hundred Acre Wood

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The Hundred Acre Wood (also spelled as 100 Ackere Wood, Hundred-Acre Wood, and 100 Acre Wood; also known as simply "The Wood") is 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 (or imagines through make-believe) Pooh and company on their many adventures. (One hundred acres is 0.4 square kilometres or 0.15625 square miles.)

In A. A. Milne's books, the term "Hundred Acre Wood" is actually used for a specific part of the larger Forest, centered around 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 is based on Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England. The car park at Gills Lap, TQ 467 315 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. The "Enchanted place" is a a small wood 200 m to the north. A monument to A.A. Milne stands 100 m further on.

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[edit] 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
  • The spinney 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
  • Galleons Lap

An illustrated map of the Hundred Acre Wood can be found here:

[edit] Residents of the Wood

[edit] The Hundred Acre Wood in Kingdom Hearts

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 Kingdom Hearts and Hollow Bastion during Kingdom Hearts II). In the games, the main character, Sora, gathers pages of a Winnie-the-Pooh storybook after it is destroyed. The Hundred Acre wood is made up of several minigames which serve to level the player up and award items.

[edit] Fauna