Setting off from home on a frosty Sunday afternoon with no particular route in mind, I found myself doing my regular saunter southbound on the Downs Link from Southwater. However, instead of following the usual route of the railway, I deviated off the main drag via a bridleway just past Read More
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High Weald Hike: Slaugham & Staplefield
Kept it nice and easy and very local for the first hike of 2021, venturing just a 15-min drive from Horsham to the High Weald. I parked in Staplefield (more about the village and its famous residents later), just by the cricket pitch, which proved to be a good starting/finishing Read More
Findon, Clapham Woods & The Long Furlong
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve driven the stretch of the A280 known as ‘The Long Furlong’. The single carriageway road cuts through a beautiful valley and is the most direct route connecting the A24 London to Worthing road with routes to the coast and the A27. Read More
Ghost Train to West Grinstead
Murder on the Orient Express, The Ghost Train, The Wheel Spins, 4.50 From Paddington, Strangers on a Train… who doesn’t love a good train mystery!? I certainly do… and what’s more, I’m lucky to have a ghost railway on my doorstep! Yes, my little village, Southwater, once had its own Read More
Harting Down, Kingley Vale & The Old Admiralty Semaphore Line
Fresh from some fantastic hikes of epic distances in the Peak District, I was compelled to push myself even further distance-wise, and devised an ambitious 26km (that’s a shade over 16 miles in old money) perambulation on the South Downs just north of Chichester. A route that would take in Read More