In Constable’s Route Variations Local Information Explorer Walk In Constable’s footsteps To Southwick Downs: If you Distance A wish to visit Southwick Downs, Approximately 10 miles (6.5 miles in 100 yards on your left find bus, 3.5 miles of walking). Returns to footsteps bus stop ‘E’, board a Brighton & Hove the start point. This distance does not Buses bus no. 46 to Southwick, alight include optional trips to Southwick at ‘Top of Overhill’ (about 20 minutes), Downs (6 miles bus, 1 mile walking) Explorer Walk head upwards to the T-junction and or to Devil’s Dyke (6 miles bus, 3 miles turn right into Downsway. In 20 yards walking). turn left onto a grassy strip between properties to take a footpath up into Time fields. After 500 yards look back 3 hours, without stops (2 hours towards the sea or continue left walking, 1 hour on buses) to admire better views. Return to Suggested time to allow is 4 hours. Downsway and take no. 46 bus from Time does not include optional trips the bus stop near the grassy strip and to Southwick Downs (40 minutes bus, alight at ‘George Street’ point 4. 30 minutes walking) or Devil’s Dyke (15 minutes bus, 1 hour 45 minutes To Devil’s Dyke: On reaching walking). B Dyke Road Avenue turn right and walk down for 330 yards. Terrain From bus stop ‘Tongdean Lane’ on Fairly flat in the city. However, includes your right, take a Brighton & Hove a slow ascent and uneven footpaths Buses bus no. 77 to Devil’s Dyke. after West Blatchington Mill. Sturdy John Constable by Daniel Maclise Alight at the last stop ‘Devil’s Dyke’ footwear required. Pencil, 1831 © National Portrait Gallery, London (about 5 minutes). Constable sketched Devil’s Dyke from near the Shepherd Suggested refreshment stops and Dog pub in Fulking about one Hilltop Café, Dyke Road Avenue, Hove; You can see sketches and mile to the north-west. To visit, cafes in George Street, Hove; The paintings that Constable made start with the Devil’s Dyke pub on Devil’s Dyke, Dyke Road, Poynings; of the local area on display in the your right with your back facing the Shepherd and Dog, Fulking. Constable and Brighton exhibition way the bus came, take a footpath left (west) across the top of the Public Toilets at Brighton Museum & Art Downs. Soon views over to the left Southern part of Royal Pavilion Gallery, 8 April – 8 October 2017. feature Shoreham, also captured by Gardens (northern end of Princes This circular sightseeing Constable. In 600 yards, just before a Place); Hove Library, Church Road; Visit our website for further tour explores the artist John gate that joins the South Downs Way, Patcham Library (about 500 yards information Constable’s time in Brighton. veer to the right to take a bridleway along Ladies Mile Road). www.brightonmuseums.org.uk leading to a separate gate on your way Hop on a bus to escape the city Brighton Museum & Art Gallery down the side of Fulking Escarpment. Bus Services All buses referred to are operated by Admission fee payable, members free At a chalky crossroads keep straight centre and walk through some ahead, going down. This will lead Brighton & Hove Buses. Visit of the green spaces that inspired Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton out into the village of Fulking near www.buses.co.uk for full details or him. Take in the landscape he visit 1 Stop Travel, 26 North Street, BN1 1EE Tel 03000 290900 the Shepherd and Dog pub which captured and visit a historic church has a natural spring next to it on the Brighton BN1 1EB. Open Tue – Sun 10am-5pm, roadside. Return to the Devil’s Dyke and two windmills on the way. Closed Mon (except Bank Holidays pub the way you came, board bus no. Places to visit 10am-5pm) 77, alight at ‘Tongdean Lane’ and turn West Blatchington Windmill, Holmes Perhaps bring a sketchbook along right to return to point 8. Avenue, Hove BN3 7LE. Open May- and capture your own views September on Sundays and Bank of the scene today. It's also a Holidays only, 2.30-5pm. Charges great opportunity to explore the apply. outskirts of Brighton and Hove. Useful local information Brighton & Hove City Council: Much has changed over the www.brighton-hove.gov.uk last 200 years – so use your imagination to capture the scene. Constable's Right: Shoreham Bay, near Brighton, paint box, 1824 by John Constable. c1824-1837 The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University Image © of Cambridge Gainsborough's The Barleycorn House Society Cover: Cornfields with windmills near Trust Brighton, c1824 by John Constable. Private collection In Constable’s footsteps 7 In 300 yards reach a mini-roundabout crossing with Goldstone Crescent. Opposite on the left Explorer Walk take a public bridleway up a bank between gardens to Three-Cornered Copse. Follow the All the paintings on this map were painted bridleway and carry on up as the ground opens by John Constable during his stays in Coney Hill up into a wide grassy area. After following the Brighton from 1824 to 1828. path for three-quarters of a mile, you reach Dyke Places in bold italic eg St Andrew’s Waterhall Mill Road Avenue. If you wish to take a trip on the Church, indicate a building/site/scene bus (Saturdays, Sundays, Public Holidays only) to Devil’s Dyke see B (overleaf). that Constable used as a subject 9 for his artwork.
Patcham By-Pass Old London Rd 8 Cross over Dyke Road Avenue and turn left. Just 6 beyond Hilltop Café go through a gate on your In 320 yards (when right and enter a grassy area (signposted Green Nevill Road bends 8 Ridge). Carry on walking for half a mile until you right) turn left downhill reach Waterhall Mill, now a private residence. This into Woodland Drive in Dyke Road Avenue did not exist in Constable’s time but gives an idea of front of the Engineerium how local windmills may have looked. Continue past museum. Hove Park will the mill and in 50 yards take a footpath left through appear on your right, a a gate with breathtaking views of the South pleasant detour if time Downs ahead. Make your way down to another allows. gate and follow the fenced-in path to the right.
Three-Cornered Copse
Woodland Drive
9 Exit via a gate into woodland and stay on the main path through the woods for about half a mile as you go down Coney Hill. Emerge and make your way down a bank to the Patcham By-Pass. Cross over using the traffic island and turn Goldstone Cresc 5 Court Farm Rd left. In 200 yards take a sharp right turn back on yourself onto 7 Old London Road, Patcham. In 150 yards turn left into Ladies Mile Road and there on your right is a bus stop ‘Patcham Old Village’. Board bus no. 5A to return to the city centre. West Blatchington Nevill Rd Windmill 6 On your way back, the bus goes by Preston Park, the Blatchington Mill, near probable location of Constable’s 1824 ‘Trunk of an Elm Tree’ The Engineerium Brighton, 5 November 1825 by oil painting. John Constable. Private collection.
5 Preston Park In 120 yards turn left 10 Alight at ‘North into Holmes Avenue to Street’, cross the see West Blatchington road at pedestrian London Road
Windmill, painted by Road Sackville crossing, turn right Constable in 1825 (for and follow road opening times see over). past the Chapel Return to Court Farm Road, Royal, turn left into turn right back towards the the Royal Pavilion bus stop and continue on Gardens and this past it. The pavement merges will take you back to with Nevill Road which you Cornfields with windmills Brighton Museum. near Brighton, c1824 by John keep following. Constable. Private collection.
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St Andrew’s Church George Street 3
1 2 MAP KEY 10 Explore by bus Western Road North Street Explore on foot 1 The Gothic House, (Sillwood Footpath Place with Western Lodge), 1824 by John Constable. 2 Private collection.
4 3 2 Recommended start At the top turn left into Blatchington Road Walk back to the In 160 yards at bus stop ‘Y’, catch 1 With your back to and at bus stop ‘George Street’ (stop F) take pedestrian crossing and a Brighton & Hove Buses bus nos. 1, the outside entrance a bus no. 5B (to Hangleton) and get off at the over the main Church Road 1A or 49 and alight at ‘George Street’ of Brighton Museum, stop ‘Court Farm Road’ (a travelling time of (B2066). Turn left to find (approximately 15 minutes). turn right and make your approximately 10 minutes). To travel up onto the St Andrew’s Church, Along the route, look out for Sillwood way across the Royal Downs above Southwick from where Constable restored since Constable Road on your left after the stop ‘Clarence Pavilion Gardens and onto may have viewed Shoreham Beach see A sketched its ruins. Return Square’. This is where Constable rented North Street. Turn right (overleaf). Other views of Shoreham are also back towards the road No.11. In front of the next stop ‘Waitrose’ is and cross at pedestrian available later from B (overleaf). Continue on crossing and turn left up the Gothic House which he painted. crossing. foot up Court Farm Road. George Street.