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Find out about Ashdown Forest in Art and Literature

Ashdown Forest has inspired and influences many artists and writers:

Ivor Hitchens 1893 - 1979

Donald Ossory Dunlop 1894-1943

Edmund J Niemann 1818-1876

Charles Harrington 1865-1943

John Piper 1903-1992


 
Forest History

Introduction
The history of Ashdown Forest is long and complicated. Artifacts have been found that would indicate that man has occupied the area as far back as the Middle Palaeolithic period (approx. 50,000 years ago). Click on one of the links to the right to find out more about a certain time period.





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Interview with Hugh - a Commoner of Ashdown Forest from the Medieval period