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

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Above Alfriston

This way up

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Littleton Down

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

Beddingham Hill

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Plumpton Bostle

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Chalky paths

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Descent from Bignor Hill

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Southease Church

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Beddingham

Cuckmere Haven

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Cuckmere Haven

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Pyramidal Orchids

Bopeep

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

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

Arun Valley

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Gander Down near Cheriton

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Descent from Littleton Down

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

Above Cuckmere Haven

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

Blackcap ahead

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Littleton Down

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

Truleigh Hill

Selfheal

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Scabious

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Beddingham Hill

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Grafham Hill

Rampion

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Wether Down

Newtimber Hill

Above Newhaven

Old Winchester Hill

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Seven Sisters

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