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

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Newtimber Hill

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Old Winchester Hill

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Arun Valley

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

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

Rampion

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Cuckmere Haven

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Chalky paths

Cuckmere Haven

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

Descent from Littleton Down

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Plumpton Bostle

Grafham Hill

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Above Cuckmere Haven

Above Newhaven

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

Gander Down near Cheriton

Littleton Down

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Bopeep

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Southease Church

Beddingham

Wether Down

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

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Selfheal

Pyramidal Orchids

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Scabious

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Beddingham Hill

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

This way up

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Descent from Bignor Hill

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Littleton Down

Blackcap ahead

Seven Sisters

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Truleigh Hill

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Above Alfriston

Beddingham Hill

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

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