Ashdown Forest
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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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» Pre-Roman » Roman to 1300 » 1300 to 1700 » 1700 to 2000 » Scheduled Monuments on the Forest Interview with Hugh - a Commoner of Ashdown Forest from the Medieval period |
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