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