Entrance Charges How to get here ARLINGTON Adults £6.00 Seniors £5.50 Public Transport (60 yrs+) 3 miles (5km) from nearest bus stops at Hailsham or Family £15.00 Children £2.50 Wilmington and train stations at Polegate or Berwick. BLUEBELL WALK (2 adults and up to 4 children) (3 - 16 yrs) Taxis & FARM TRAIL Why not take out a Friends Membership? £22 Hailsham 01323 844464 Polegate 01323 484444 per person, or a Family Membership is £48 and By Car includes two adults and up to four children under 17 Follow the large brown & white signs off the A22 and years old. Visit as many times as you like whilst we are A27, marked Bluebell Walk & Farm Trail to a large free Open Daily open this season. car park. Email: [email protected] or tel: 01323 485151 10.00 am - 5.00 pm 11th April - 19th May Please note you can still visit Bates Green Farm TO UCKFIELD TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS A267 TO BATTLE to support a favourite charity, without having A22 A271 to pay to go on the Bluebell Walk as it is free to B2124 TO LEWES Boship Roundabout visit the Bluebell Barn where you can purchase the Michelham refreshments supplied by the duty charity. Plus you can Priory look round the Plant Stall run by Arlington Church, Old the card & gift stall run by Hailsham Old Pavilion Oak Arlington Church Inn Stadium HAILSHAM Society and browse the second hand bookstall run Arlington and maintained by Action for Medical Research. Also Reservoir Yew Abbots Wood see the Pygmy Goats, Herdwick Sheep and two pigs, Berwick Station Tree Bluebell Walk Inn Bates Green Farm then decide if you want to pay the fee to walk around A22 the Bluebell and Farm Walks. TO LEWES A27 TO EASTBOURNE Daily Menu A27 & HASTINGS Drusilla’s Supplied and served by the Duty Charity Polegate Station Photo: Dixon Chris TO ALFRISTON WILMINGTON (Cash only – Debit card cashback facilities are available at The Gate House) • Delicious cakes, biscuits and buns Bates Green Farm • Variety of drinks Tye Hill Road Arlington, Nr Polegate • Soup, sandwiches, salads and fi lled jacket potatoes East Sussex BN26 6SH • The Duty Charity’s Special Dish of the Day Tel: 01323 485151 • Cream Teas Email: [email protected] Visit us online to see what’s on offer today: www.bluebellwalk.co.uk

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Managing the Walks & Supplying the Refreshments • Free car parking in large 5 • Wheelchair accessible Hailsham Lions East Sussex Foster acre fi eld toilet with modern facilities Thursday/Friday 11/12 April Care Association • Designated parking for • Every day a range of Tuesday/Wednesday 30 April & 1 May Rotary Club of disabled close to farm entrance refreshments provided by the Hailsham Rotary Club of Seaford • All dogs welcomed, but always Duty Charity Saturday/Sunday 13/14 April Thursday/Friday 2/3 May

on leads please • Picnic tables in a sheltered Arlington Friends Park Mead Arlington Village Village Hall and St • A detailed map of the various corner of the Car Park Field Primary School Hall & Church Pancras Church Walks given at The Gate House • Browse the Bluebell Walk Monday 15 April May Bank Holiday 4/5/6 May • One walk is through the Stall run by H.O.P.S. volunteers Demelza Hospice Memory Lane bluebells in a 24 acre ancient • Visit the Book Room managed Care for Children Eastbourne oak wood by Action for Medical Research Tuesday/Wednesday 16/17 April Tuesday 7 May - This walk is gravelled for • A Plant Stall organized by Children with The Salvation Army wheelchairs and mobility Arlington’s Parish Church Cancer Fund Wednesday 8 May Thursday 18 April scooters • The Gate House offers Hellingly Primary - There is seating every 150 cash back as all sales in the JPK Project School PTA yards to rest and admire the Bluebell barn are cash only Eastbourne Thursday/Friday 9/10 May Good Friday/Saturday 19/20 April scenery • Enter our Photographic Canine Partners • Six other walks over farmland Competition to win a cash Hailsham Old Pavilion Saturday/Sunday 11/12 May Society (HOPS) and access to two other farms prize Easter Sunday/Monday 21/22 April NSPCC • See cows being milked • Children’s Quiz available, Monday 13 May Eastbourne 3.00pm to 5.00pm from a viewing answers found on boards around Upper Dicker Samaritans Upper Dicker Village Hall gallery. Walking there and back is the Walks & Holy Trinity Tuesday/Wednesday 23/24 April Church & Village Hall Church nearly 3 miles! • Friends of Arlington Bluebell Walk Tuesday/Wednesday 14/15 May • Petting animals area adjacent season ticket gives unlimited Carriage Driving for the Disabled Cruse to the Bluebell Barn access whilst we are open this Thursday/Friday 25/26 April Bereavement Care • Mobility scooters available season Thursday 16 May Kent Surrey Sussex free of charge (cannot be pre- • Memorial Glade situated in Air Ambulance Rotary Club booked) the quiet area of Beatons Wood, Saturday/Sunday 27/28 April of Eastbourne AM Every spring Beatons Wood, our ancient oak to sit and remember those who Friday 17 May are no longer here Eastbourne Foodbank wood, appears as: Monday 29 April Cancer Research UK • A Memorial Book with entries Saturday/Sunday 18/19 May 1 A fresh green carpet of emerging bluebell leaves about loved ones 2 A white display of wood anemones www.petergoldsmithphotos.co.uk who used 3 A unique view of green, white and blueAnemone as the nemorosa english bluebells to visit Others Hyacinthoides non-scripta Action Medical Research book room - every day 4 Followed by the many vistasemerge of blue when the bluebells are fully out RSPB stall - weekends only The timing of this sequence is dictated by the soil temperature, not by St Pancras Church us! Every Friday we post an update on the home page of Arlington Arlington Church plant stall - every day www.bluebellwalk.co.uk Hailsham Old Pavilion Society (HOPS) stall - every day www.bluebellwalk.co.uk Sussex Wildlife Trust - weekends