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

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Scabious

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Cuckmere Haven

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

This way up

Chalky paths

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

Beddingham Hill

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Above Alfriston

Pyramidal Orchids

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Littleton Down

Beddingham Hill

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

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Descent from Littleton Down

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Plumpton Bostle

Wether Down

Above Cuckmere Haven

Beddingham

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Above Newhaven

Selfheal

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

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Arun Valley

Gander Down near Cheriton

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Old Winchester Hill

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

Blackcap ahead

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Littleton Down

Newtimber Hill

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Rampion

Truleigh Hill

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Grafham Hill

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Seven Sisters

Southease road, rail and river crossing

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Cuckmere Haven

Southease Church

Bopeep

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Descent from Bignor Hill

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

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

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

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