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