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However, visitors are now advised to bring their own sticks, as previous visitors have caused damage to the trees in the vicinity. The game can still be played in Ashdown Forest to this day and the site regularly attracts tourists from as far afield as the United States and Japan. A plaque was also placed to commemorate the occasion and thank those who financially contributed to the project. The newly built and modernised bridge retained its precursor's original style. Partly rebuilt in 1979, the donations from Disney, building firms and members of the public funded its complete reconstruction. The company provided a substantial donation towards the estimated £30,000 needed to replace the bridge. The site was so popular that in 1999 the East Sussex county council made an appeal to Disney as the old wooden bridge had been worn down by an overwhelming number of visitors. The bridge was subsequently reopened by Christopher Robin Milne and officially renamed as Poohsticks Bridge. The bridge maintained the public's interest and a campaign to rebuild it in the late seventies was considered important enough to feature on the BBC Nine O'Clock News.

However, it is uncertain whether the game was first played at the bridge and then written into the story, or vice versa.

Built in 1907 and originally called Posingford Bridge, it is considered to be the bridge on which Milne and his son first played the game. Milne first played the game at a bridge located in Ashdown Forest, close to the village of Upper Hartfield, East Sussex, England. As first depicted, protagonist Pooh accidentally drops a pine cone into a river from a bridge and, after observing how it appeared on the other side of the bridge, devises the rules for Poohsticks, later playing the game with the other characters, Christopher Robin, Tigger, and Eeyore.

The game first came to prominence upon Milne's description in his 1928 book The House at Pooh Corner, as well as the 1983 Disney animated featurette Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. Milne for his son Christopher Robin Milne. Poohsticks was invented by English author A.A. The annual World Poohsticks Championships have been held at Day's Lock on the River Thames in the UK since 1984. It is a simple game which may be played on any bridge over running water each player drops a stick on the upstream side of a bridge and the one whose stick first appears on the downstream side is the winner. Poohsticks is a game first mentioned in The House at Pooh Corner, a Winnie-the-Pooh book by A.A.

Winnie the pooh and the house at pooh corner