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

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

Arun Valley

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

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

Beddingham Hill

Rampion

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Newtimber Hill

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Beddingham Hill

Scabious

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Chalky paths

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

This way up

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Descent from Littleton Down

Above Newhaven

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Cuckmere Haven

Pyramidal Orchids

Truleigh Hill

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Blackcap ahead

Above Cuckmere Haven

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Grafham Hill

Littleton Down

Bopeep

Beddingham

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Cuckmere Haven

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Seven Sisters

Selfheal

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Old Winchester Hill

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Gander Down near Cheriton

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Littleton Down

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Above Alfriston

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

Plumpton Bostle

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

Descent from Bignor Hill

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

Southease Church

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

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

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Wether Down

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

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

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