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

Pyramidal Orchids

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

This way up

Blackcap ahead

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Seven Sisters

Littleton Down

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Grafham Hill

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Truleigh Hill

Cuckmere Haven

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Selfheal

Littleton Down

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Cuckmere Haven

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

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Descent from Bignor Hill

Beddingham

Beddingham Hill

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Wether Down

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Chalky paths

Above Cuckmere Haven

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Above Newhaven

Gander Down near Cheriton

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Plumpton Bostle

Above Alfriston

Bopeep

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

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

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

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

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

Descent from Littleton Down

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Newtimber Hill

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Rampion

Old Winchester Hill

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Beddingham Hill

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Southease Church

Arun Valley

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Scabious

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

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