Editing South East England (section)

===Literature, TV Puppetry & Animation, Cinema, Music and Cuisine===
[[Ashdown Forest]] in [[East Sussex]] was the inspiration for the [[Hundred Acre Wood]] in the [[Winnie-the-Pooh]] stories by [[A.A. Milne]] who also lived in the nearby village of [[Hartfield]] and visited the forest with his son [[Christopher Robin]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ashdownforest.org/winnie-the-pooh/pooh.php |title=About Pooh |website=www.ashdownforest.org |access-date=16 June 2020 |archive-date=16 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616152424/https://www.ashdownforest.org/winnie-the-pooh/pooh.php |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Alice Liddell]], also known as Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for Alice in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'', spent the majority of her childhood living in [[Oxford]], and in her later years lived in and around [[Lyndhurst, Hampshire]] after her marriage to Reginald Hargreaves. She is buried in the graveyard of St Michael and All Angels Church in the town.<ref name="nfp">{{cite web |url=http://www.newforestparishes.com/page8/page2/lyndhurst.html |title=New Forest Parishes |publisher=New Forest Parishes |access-date=22 March 2014 |archive-date=28 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128100032/http://www.newforestparishes.com/page8/page2/lyndhurst.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Roger Hargreaves]] lived in Lower Sunbury on the River Thames on the next to [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames|Richmond upon Thames]] borough boundary, and wrote his ''[[Mr. Men]]'' books. [[Mary Tourtel]] from Canterbury created ''[[Rupert Bear]]''. [[Frank Hampson]], of ''[[Dan Dare]]'', drew all his pictures when he lived in the east of Epsom, off the [[A2022 road|A2022]]. Buckinghamshire's [[E. L. James]] author of the [[erotic romance novels|erotic romance]] ''[[Fifty Shades (novel series)|Fifty Shades Trilogy]]'' has the UK record for the fastest-selling [[paperback]] of all time.

''[[Trumpton]]'' (1967) was based on [[Plumpton, East Sussex]], with other titles in the series based on nearby villages; ''Trumpton'' was actually shot by [[Gordon Murray (puppeteer)|Gordon Murray]]'s company in [[Crouch End]], London. [[Gerry Anderson]]'s [[AP Films]] filmed ''[[Thunderbirds (TV series)|Thunderbirds]]'' on the Slough Trading Estate near to the site's [[cooling tower]]s, being first broadcast in 1965. The [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] woman [[Pocahontas]] is buried at [[St George's Church, Gravesend]] in [[Kent]] and was the inspiration for the popular [[Pocahontas (1995 film)|Disney animated film of the same name]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pocahontas-the-gravesend-connection-1595037.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pocahontas-the-gravesend-connection-1595037.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Pocahontas: the Gravesend connection |date=23 October 2011 |website=The Independent}}</ref>

The first multiplex cinema in the UK was in Milton Keynes, in the mid-1980s.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-38717476 |title=Milton Keynes at 50: Landmark in cinema |work=BBC News}}</ref>

Elgar wrote his [[Cello Concerto (Elgar)|Cello Concerto]] at [[Fittleworth]], West Sussex, in 1919. [[Isaac Watts]], a hymn writer from Southampton, wrote ''[[When I Survey the Wondrous Cross]]'' and ''[[O God, Our Help in Ages Past]]''. [[John Goss (composer)|John Goss]], who wrote the hymn tune for ''[[Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven]]'', came from Fareham. At [[Chalfont St Giles]], [[John Milton|Milton]] finished ''[[Paradise Lost]]''. Olney in Buckinghamshire is known for the ''[[Olney Hymns]]'' - ''Amazing Grace'', and for [[Henry Gauntlett]], the composer of the tune of ''[[Once in Royal David's City]]''.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1= Trolley |first1= Terence |last2= Blizzard |first2= Judith |title= Gauntlett, Henry John |date= 23 September 2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/10462 |freearticle=y}}</ref> The Christian non-profit music festival ''Big Church Day Out'' takes place annually on the last Saturday and Sunday of May at [[Wiston House]], [[Wiston, West Sussex|Wiston]] in [[West Sussex]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bigchurchdayout.com/south |title=Big Church Day Out 2020 |website=bigchurchdayout.com |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=5 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605215621/https://bigchurchdayout.com/south |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Pimm's]] was invented by [[James Pimm]] of Kent in the 1820s.<ref>{{cite ODNB |last= McConnell |first= Anita |title= Pimm, James |date=  22 September 2005 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/92811 }}</ref> [[Banoffee pie]] was invented in 1972 in [[Willingdon and Jevington|Jevington]] in East Sussex. [[Maria Ann Smith]] from Sussex emigrated to Australia and created the [[Granny Smith]] apple. Horticulturist [[Richard Cox (horticulturist)|Richard Cox]] lived in [[Colnbrook]], where he bred his [[Cox's Orange Pippin]], a popular apple. [[Elizabeth David]], a cookery writer who [[Elizabeth David bibliography|revolutionised]] the nation's [[English cuisine|home cooking]] in the 1950s, came from Sussex.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peskett |first=Words Louise |date=2020-09-07 |title=Meet six of Sussex's most iconic cooks |url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/sussex-cooks-from-eliza-acton-to-fanny-cradock-7287322 |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=Great British Life |language=en-UK |archive-date=19 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419130304/https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/sussex-cooks-from-eliza-acton-to-fanny-cradock-7287322 |url-status=live }}</ref>