Some of the beautiful countryside we walked through (click on any picture to enlarge):

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Southease Church

Beddingham Hill

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Chalky paths

View from Beacon Hill across the Meon Valley towards Old Winchester Hill

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Cuckmere Haven

Descent from Bignor Hill

Blackcap ahead

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Above Newhaven

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Grafham Hill

Old Winchester Hill

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Typical chalky flinty Downland path – the descent from Chanctonbury towards Upper Beeding

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Seven Sisters

Cuckmere Haven

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Plumpton Bostle

This way up

Wether Down

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Beacon Hill at Exton across the Meon Valley (Julian Arkell)

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Ouse Valley from the Juggs Track with Mt Caburn (left) and Firle Beacon in distance

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

Above Alfriston

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Scabious

Selfheal

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Bopeep

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Littleton Down

Littleton Down

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

Newtimber Hill

Truleigh Hill

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Pyramidal Orchids

Beddingham Hill

Above Cuckmere Haven

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Beddingham

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Arun Valley

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

Descent from Littleton Down

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Gander Down near Cheriton

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Rampion

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