Around Ashdown Forest

"Forest" originally meant a place where deer could be hunted and people are often surprised to find that the 6,500 acres of Ashdown Forest is 60% heathland and scrub, and only 40% woodland. Much of the outer limit of the present day Forest boundary still follows the ancient pale whose stake-lined bank and ditch were built to allow deer to enter the Forest but not to leave it. The heathland has been created bycenturies of grazing, woodland clearance and other forms of interference by man. There have been hunting and grazing, the felling of timber and the production or iron. Over the years the Commoners have fiercely defended their rights to the Forest heathland and woodlandresources and today their rights are defended by the Conservators of Ashdown Forest who manage the Forest in accordance with the Ashdown Forest Act of 1974.

For further information about Ashdown Forest contact, or visit,the Ashdown Forest Centre, Ridge Road, Wych Cross. Tel: 01342 823583
e-mail conservators@ashdownforest.fsnet.co.uk

The following are within a short drive of the Llama Park.

Ashdown Forest Centre & Information Barn, Wych Cross. Tel: 01342 823583 www.ashdownforest.org
Barnsgate Manor Vineyard, Herons Ghyll. Tel: 01825 713366 www.barnsgate.co.uk
Bluebell Railway, Sheffield Park. Tel: 01825 720800 www.bluebell-railway.co.uk
Groombridge Place, Groombridge. Tel: 01892 861444 www.groombridge.co.uk
Hammerwood Park, East Grinstead Tel: 01342 850594 www.hammerwoodpark.com
Heaven Farm, Danehill. Tel: 01825 790226 www.heavenfarm.co.uk
Hever Castle, Edenbridge. Tel: 01732 865224 www.hevercastle.co.uk
Nutley Windmill, Nutley Tel: 01435 873367/01825 762969
Pooh Country & Pooh Corner, Hartfield:Tel 01892 810479 www.pooh-country.co.uk
The Priest House, West Hoathly Tel 01342 810479 www.sussexpast.co.uk
Sheffield Park Garden, Sheffield Park. Tel: 01825 720800 www.bluebell-railway.co.uk
Standen House & Gardens, East Grinstead. Tel: 01342 323029 www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Wakehurst Place, Ardingly. Tel: 01444 894066 www.kew.org
Wych Cross Garden Centre & Rose Nursery Tel: 01342 822705 www.wychcross.co.uk

For further information about other attractions/accommodation around Ashdown Forest contact the Sussex Country Tourist Information Centre which is based in the Park’s Visitor Centre and open daily between 10.00am & 4.00pm.
Tel:01825 712040