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

Heyshott Down between Cocking and Amberley

The dewpond beside the Juggs Track above Kingston

Bopeep

Stormy Seven Sisters (Julian Arkell)

Looking West from Ditchling Beacon towards Wolstenbury Hill

Gander Down near Cheriton

Descent from Littleton Down

Southease road, rail and river crossing

Above Cuckmere Haven

Above Newhaven

Chalky paths

Beddingham

Selfheal

Early Mist in Ouse Valley

Lunch before Beacon Hill, Harting

Descending from Beacon Hill, Exton (Julian Arkell)

Start of the climb up to Bignor Hill from Littleton Farm

Descent from Bignor Hill

South Harting and the Rother Valley viewed from Harting Down

O’er hill and vale…. (Julian Arkell)

Scabious

Seven Sisters

Pyramidal Orchids

Approaching the Devil’s Dyke

Seaford Head in distance beyond Ouse Valley

Cuckmere Haven

Blackcap ahead

Climbing up out of Saddlescombe

Crossing Rackham Hill before descending to Washington

Firle Beacon rising above Alciston

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

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

Cuckmere Haven

Meon Springs (Julian Arkell)

Descending Littleton Down with Bignor Hill rising ahead

Grafham Hill

Looking westwards towards Ditchling Beacon

Truleigh Hill

Clinging on for dear life on a very windy Seven Sister

Firle Beacon beyond Ouse Valley

Newtimber Hill

A soggy Cuckmere Valley

Ashcombe windmill Kingston, with Lewes beyond (Julian Arkell)

Old Winchester Hill

Wether Down

Birling Gap (Julian Arkell)

Approaching Chanctonbury Ring

Westwards from Devil’s Dyke

Streat Hill looking back towards Ditchling beacon

Beachy Head Lighthouse ahoy

Misty Ashcombe Bottom

Littleton Down

On the trail from Chanctonbury to Steyning Bowl and Upper Beeding

On the road together again (Julian Arkell)

Itford Hill and the Ouse Valley

Old Winchester Hill (Julian Arkell)

Looking eastwards along the SDW from Ditchling Beacon

Evening on the Fulking Escarpment

Littleton Down

Looking westwards from Bignor Hill towards Littleton Down

Look Out! (julian Arkell)

Looking West towards Ditchling Beacon

Early to rise…Plumpton Bostle

This way up

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

Above Alfriston

Beddingham Hill

Looking westwards from Firle towards Beddingham Hill

Looking back towards Ditchling Beacon from Newmarket Hill

Plumpton Bostle

Arun Valley

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

Rampion

Beachey Head (Julian Arkell)

Plumpton Plain with Blackcap ahead (Julian Arkell)

Eastwards to Amberley – descending from Bignor Hill

Southease Church

Beddingham Hill

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