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

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

This way up

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

Blackcap ahead

Arun Valley

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Descent from Bignor Hill

Littleton Down

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Truleigh Hill

Wether Down

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Pyramidal Orchids

Newtimber Hill

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Scabious

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Cuckmere Haven

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Beddingham Hill

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Seven Sisters

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Grafham Hill

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

Old Winchester Hill

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

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

Above Alfriston

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Chalky paths

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

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Gander Down near Cheriton

Southease Church

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

Cuckmere Haven

Plumpton Bostle

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Littleton Down

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

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Selfheal

Rampion

Bopeep

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

Beddingham

Above Cuckmere Haven

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Above Newhaven

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Beddingham Hill

Descent from Littleton Down

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

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