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
Beacon Hill at Exton across the Meon Valley (Julian Arkell)
Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill
Old Winchester Hill
Beddingham Hill
Pyramidal Orchids
Newtimber Hill
Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill
Gander Down near Cheriton
Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)
Truleigh Hill
Plumpton Bostle
Scabious
Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down
Early Mist in Ouse Valley
Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon
Approaching the Devil’s Dyke
Grafham Hill
Littleton Down
Beddingham
Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)
Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill
Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)
Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley
Misty Ashcombe Bottom
Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley
Firle Beacon rising above Alciston
Beddingham Hill
Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill
Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon
Southease road, rail and river crossing
Cuckmere Haven
Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead
Descent from Littleton Down
Seven Sisters
Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington
Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon
Arun Valley
Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon
Blackcap ahead
Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting
Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle
View from Beacon Hill across the Meon Valley towards Old Winchester Hill
Above Newhaven
O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)
Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister
Approaching Chanctonbury Ring
A soggy Cuckmere Valley
Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm
Evening on the Fulking Escarpment
This way up
Littleton Down
Above Cuckmere Haven
Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley
Selfheal
Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy
Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley
Westwards from Devil’s Dyke
Descent from Bignor Hill
Climbing up out of Saddlescombe
Rampion
South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down
Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)
Ouse Valley from the Juggs Track with Mt Caburn (left) and Firle Beacon in distance
Wether Down
Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)
Typical chalky flinty Downland path – the descent from Chanctonbury towards Upper Beeding
Cuckmere Haven
Southease Church
Above Alfriston
On the road together again (Julian Arkell)
The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston
Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)
Bopeep
Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)
Chalky paths
Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)
Look Out! (julian Arkell)
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