Vandals have removed a third of the parking signs from Ashdown Forest, East Sussex near Forest Row after conservators voted to charge motorists in a bid to keep the forest clean.
A row has erupted over car parking charges at the forest which inspired the Hundred Acre Wood in Winnie-the-Pooh.
The parking charges were met with anger from local residents and visitors to the Forest when they were introduced last year - with one person branding the fees as a 'disgusting money-making scam'. 'We thought long and hard before introducing parking charges and a lot of thought has been put into it to make it fair.
As well as the 18 signs which have been torn down and thrown aside, others have been defaced and scrawled on. Managers say the attacks are 'eroding' funds aimed at maintaining the forest and its facilities. 'It's really well-managed and we don't want it to turn back into a wilderness that no-one can access.
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