Some of the beautiful countryside we walked through (click on any picture to enlarge):
Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington
Pyramidal Orchids
O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)
Newtimber Hill
Chalky paths
Approaching Chanctonbury Ring
Look Out! (julian Arkell)
Old Winchester Hill
Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister
Early Mist in Ouse Valley
Above Cuckmere Haven
Blackcap ahead
Above Newhaven
Climbing up out of Saddlescombe
Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)
Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill
Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill
Arun Valley
Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)
Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy
Cuckmere Haven
Littleton Down
Misty Ashcombe Bottom
Southease road, rail and river crossing
Approaching the Devil’s Dyke
Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon
This way up
Truleigh Hill
Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting
Rampion
A soggy Cuckmere Valley
Beddingham Hill
Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm
Firle Beacon rising above Alciston
Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)
The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston
Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley
Gander Down near Cheriton
Beddingham Hill
Above Alfriston
Evening on the Fulking Escarpment
Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)
Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley
View from Beacon Hill across the Meon Valley towards Old Winchester Hill
Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)
Ouse Valley from the Juggs Track with Mt Caburn (left) and Firle Beacon in distance
On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding
Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon
Descent from Bignor Hill
Wether Down
Bopeep
Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill
Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down
Seven Sisters
Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley
Beddingham
Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)
Southease Church
Westwards from Devil’s Dyke
Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)
Littleton Down
Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley
Beacon Hill at Exton across the Meon Valley (Julian Arkell)
Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle
Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill
Selfheal
Plumpton Bostle
On the road together again (Julian Arkell)
Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon
Scabious
Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead
Grafham Hill
Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon
Typical chalky flinty Downland path – the descent from Chanctonbury towards Upper Beeding
Cuckmere Haven
South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down
Descent from Littleton Down
Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)
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