Ashdown Forest - Notable People

Notable People

  • A.A. Milne, author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, lived at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield, having bought the old farmhouse, situated about a mile from the ancient Forest entrance at Chuck Hatch, in 1925.
  • Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones also lived at Cotchford Farm, and died there in 1969.
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, lived at Crowborough, on the eastern edge of the forest. Locations around the Forest found their way into his stories.
  • Richard Jefferies, nature writer, lived at Crowborough for a period while he wrote some of his most famous essays.
  • Harold Macmillan, former British Prime Minister, lived at Birch Grove, near Chelwood Gate; the Macmillan Clump of trees is named in his honour.
  • Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, best friend and equerry of Edward VIII, lived in a grey stone house in the forest.

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