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

Descent from Littleton Down

Above Cuckmere Haven

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Newtimber Hill

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Descent from Bignor Hill

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Southease Church

Rampion

Gander Down near Cheriton

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

Cuckmere Haven

Beddingham

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

Old Winchester Hill

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Selfheal

Littleton Down

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Scabious

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Beddingham Hill

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

Above Alfriston

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Pyramidal Orchids

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

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

Bopeep

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Seven Sisters

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

Grafham Hill

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Chalky paths

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

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

Littleton Down

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Arun Valley

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Beddingham Hill

Above Newhaven

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Blackcap ahead

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Truleigh Hill

Plumpton Bostle

Southease road, rail and river crossing

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

This way up

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

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

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Cuckmere Haven

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Wether Down

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