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The car park is a turning left (when heading south from South Harting) off the B2141 road. |
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Head east from the car park on the South Downs Way
over Harting Down and down between bushes, passing through a gate at the
top and one at the bottom. |
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Continue up to Beacon Hill, follow the track
over Beacon Hill and down to where a path head off to the right
(south) towards Hooksway. (photo: Early morning view south before going on to Beacon Hill) |
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Follow this enclosed path on a track between fields,
eventually arriving at a track coming from the left (old Buriton Farm) and a
track from the right (down from Telegraph House area). (photo: Looking down the track from The Royal Oak at Hooksway) |
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Continue straight on going south
through the middle of the field. Pass through the gate and continue on to
reach The Royal Oak pub at Hooksway. (photo: Farmer's work is never done .... near Staple Ash Farm) |
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At the pub, go down the path opposite the pub
entrance, which passes down the side of a garden. When a fingerpost is
reached (on the right) go off left and follow the path up though the woods.
Soon at a clearing, cross over the wide track and go down the path. Cross
the next field, over a stile and up alongside the right-side of the next
field. (photo: Looking back down the track before the woods at Westdean Woods) |
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The path leaves the field and becomes enclosed by
hedgerows, eventually exiting on the access road to Brooms Farm up from
Chilgrove. Go right, then left at the junction and continue for about a mile
on the lane around to Staple Ash farm. (photo: South Downs east from Cocking Down) |
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Keep left up the road after the farm, and where the
road bends left, go straight up onto a footpath. Follow the footpath to the
next narrow lane. (photo: Long and windy road ... the South Downs Way) |
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Go right at the lane, and once around the bend off
left on the wide track leading up to Westdean Wood. Follow the track into
the wood, the middle of the three, and continue up passing a charcoal
burning area. (All tracks are marked with ‘no entry’ signs other than
where the footpath is.) On reaching a clearing, go left then on the footpath
right passing down back into the woods. (photo: A view west towards Beacon Hill from near old Buriton Farm) |
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The path eventually leaves the wood and goes down the
side of a field outside the Westdean Wood. The path soon passes down between
hedgerows ... and is very overgrown with nettles ... to reach the A286
Chichester to Cocking road. (photo: Looking back east along the South Downs from Beacon Hill) |
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Go left up the road for a short distance to reach a
small car park on the South Downs Way. Go left onto the South Downs Way,
following it over Cocking Down, Linch Down, Didling Down and Treyford Hill
then down to join the track leading to old Buriton Farm. Continue straight on, still on the South Downs Way,
passing over Pen Hill then on to Beacon Hill ...... having left the South
Downs Way. (Here, for some reason it skirts around Beacon Hill.) Pass over
Beacon Hill to below Harting Down, now back. (photo: And the view west from Beacon Hill) |
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