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

Pyramidal Orchids

Beddingham Hill

Chalky paths

Rampion

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Plumpton Bostle

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Seven Sisters

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

Descent from Littleton Down

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Above Newhaven

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Beddingham

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

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

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Littleton Down

Bopeep

Truleigh Hill

Grafham Hill

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Arun Valley

Scabious

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Southease Church

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Newtimber Hill

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Selfheal

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

Wether Down

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Cuckmere Haven

Above Cuckmere Haven

Old Winchester Hill

Above Alfriston

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

Beddingham Hill

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Descent from Bignor Hill

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Blackcap ahead

Gander Down near Cheriton

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

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

Littleton Down

Cuckmere Haven

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

This way up

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

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

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