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