‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ Bridge Seen Selling up to $80,000 at Auction

Silke Lohmann of Summers Place Auctions stands on the original Poohsticks Bridge from Ashdown Forest, featured in A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books and E.H. Shepard's illustrations, near its original location in Tonbridge, Kent, England, on Sept. 30, 2021. Gareth Fuller/PA via AP

LONDON—An old bridge that inspired “Winnie-the-Pooh” author A.A. Milne and was depicted in his much-loved children’s stories about the honey-loving bear is being sold at auction on Wednesday, with a price estimate of up to around $80,000.

Originally known as Posingford Bridge, it was built in 1907 in Ashdown Forest, in southern England, as a river crossing.