GODALMINGING TUNBRIDGETUNBRIDGEN GEE National ParkWELLSWE AreaS SOUTH DOWNS Railway SOUTH DOWNS WALKS WINCHESTER Station NATIONAL PARK PETERSFIELD STANMER PARK MIDHURST PULBOROUGH From rolling hills to bustling market towns, the SOUTHAMPTON STANMER & THE CHATTRI LEWES AND THE CHATTRI South Downs National Park’s landscapes cover CHICHESTER 1,600km² of breathtaking views, hidden gems BRIGHTON & HOVE PORTSMOUTH BOGNOR EASTBOURNE and quintessentially English scenery. A rich REGIS tapestry of wildlife, landscapes, tranquillity and visitor attractions, weave together a story of FIND YOUR WAY people and place in harmony. Follow the arrows on waymarkers. For your guide to everything there is to Footpath see and do in the National Park visit southdowns.gov.uk/discovery-map Bridleway Restricted byway Byway Open access land National Trail Acorn

TAKE THE LEAD For a safe and fun visit with your dog please remember to keep them on a lead around livestock and wildlife. Always bag and bin your dog poo – any public bin will do!

GETTING HERE CONTACT By bus: There are South Downs National regular services to Falmer Park Authority: and Patcham, 01730 814810 YOUR COUNTRYSIDE CODE: visit traveline.info/se @SDNPA RESPECT. PROTECT. ENJOY. By rail: The Stanmer route /SDNPA Respect other people is close to Falmer station. • Leave gates and property as you fi nd them Visit nationalrail.co.uk • Keep to the paths unless on Access Land SOUTHDOWNS.GOV.UK Protect the natural environment • Take your litter home All uncredited photos © SDNPA/Mischa Haller. Printed on FSC certifi ed paper. Details correct at time of going to print. Please be aware that routes are shared • Keep dogs under effective control with other users (vehicles, pedestrians, dogs, horses etc.) and users of this route do so at their own risk. We do not accept any responsibility for loss, damage Please Enjoy the outdoors or injury, however caused, arising directly or indirectly from use of this leafl et. recyclePlease me Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2013. afterrecycle use me • Plan ahead and be prepared after use • Follow advice and local signs SDNPA/The Way Design/March ‘15. © SDNPA Crown copyright CHATTRI Bottom you will see the ancient fi eld systems MEMORIAL called lynchets. These During World ‘terrace’ platforms were War I (1914–18), created by Iron Age Indian soldiers were ploughs some 2,500 hospitalised in the Royal years ago. Pavilion in Brighton. The Hindus and Sikhs who DEW PONDS died were cremated on All across the South the Downs and in 1921 Downs you will fi nd the Chattri memorial large circular ponds was built on the called dew ponds. cremation site. The word They were built to Chattri means ‘umbrella’ provide water for in Hindi, Punjabi and the large fl ocks of Urdu, symbolising the sheep that grazed the protection offered to the downland from the memory of the dead. 17th century onwards. These ponds are fi lled LYNCHETS by rainwater, rather 7,000 years ago this than dew. Many ponds whole area around the fell into disrepair in the Chattri was covered in 1900s due to a decline trees before Neolithic in sheep grazing and © Andy Flowerday/SDNPA people cleared the the introduction of woodland to start mains water, however, STANMER PARK working the land. You due to their wildlife and can still see signs of how landscape value many The Stanmer estate covers approximately 5,000 acres the landscape in this ponds are now being area has been shaped restored. with a pretty village, manor house, farm, church and café. by farming. Above Ewe The park has a wealth you can still see a stony In 765 AD, Stanmer was Pelham purchased it in of history to discover. It pond. Archaeology shows given to the Canons and 1712 for £7500. It was is thought that the word that Stanmer Park has Monks of St Michael, South the Pelham family that Stanmer comes from the had human activity since Malling by King Aedwulf. redeveloped Stanmer to Anglo-Saxon words ‘stan’ Neolithic times with the It belonged to the Church the version we see today. and ‘mere’ which mean Great Wood containing until the dissolution of the The church, the village and ‘stone’ and ‘pond’. To the Bronze Age barrows, monasteries when the manor house stand east of the church, which tumulus and a cross it became property on sites of much earlier was built in 1838 on the ridge dyke (a prehistoric of the Crown. versions of themselves, foundations of a 14th land boundary). with some of the building century building, The estate changed hands materials being reused in frequently until Sir Henry the current buildings.

The Chattri © Richard Reed KEY: SOUTH DOWNS WAY DITCHLING Point of interest BEACON Pub Refreshments Toilets

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C PIDDINGWORTH STANMER Woodland T CHATTRI I DOWN D PLANTATION O pen access land (in shaded area) 7 Buildings Dew pond MILLBANK 7 WOOD TEGDOWN HILL 8 0 ¼ mile 5 Tumulus 5 STANMER PARK ½km EWE 9 A UPPER 2 BOTTOM LODGES 4 3 10 STANMER Tumulus 8 11 3 27 A N 4 3 STANMER 2 2 12 HOUSE GREAT WOOD 1 START START BRIGHTON PATCHAM &HOVE STANMER PARK

1 FALMER STATION THE CHATTRI STANMER PARK TRAIL: ALLOW: PATH: A mix of roads TRAIL: GRADIENT: MAP: 2 hours and grassy tracks. Steep in places OS Explorer 122 DISTANCE: MAP: DISTANCE: GRADIENT: 3.75 miles (6km) OS Explorer 122 5.5 miles (8.5km) PATH: A mix of quiet Steep in places roads, uneven tracks and ALLOW: 3 hours forested paths.

Explore rolling open access land and Discover the beautiful woodland walks breathtaking views to the sea. and extensive open land of Stanmer Park. From the bus stop outside Enter the Chattri through Retrace your steps From the Stanmer Park At the end of the village, Plantation. Go through the 1 the Ladies Mile pub, 6 the gate. From the Chattri 12 back to the bus stop 1 bus stop at Stony Mere 4 with the pond on your gate, past the dew pond walk up Vale Avenue which head back in the direction opposite the Ladies Mile Pub. Way follow the tarmac road left go through the gate and and through another gate takes you to Horsedean you came but skirting the between the two white lower follow the bridleway past the under the power lines. Recreation Ground. woodland on your left. ALTERNATIVE lodge houses into Stanmer barn and wood on your left. Follow the open fi eld LONGER ROUTE Park. Continue through the towards Upper Lodges. Turn right and follow At the end of the trees, At the junction take the To visit Ditchling Beacon, park following the tarmac the track up to the right follow the small ridge on path on your right and Go through the gate 2 7 continue along the road for 700 metres. 5 keeping between the trees your left down to the gate follow the bridleway up the following the path bridleway at route point 6 7 and fence at the back of the keeping the rifl e range on At the fork in the road hill until you come to the through the woods. At the on the Chattri walk (Sussex houses. Take the fi rst left your left. Pass through the bear right and follow the electricity wires at Millbank. tarmac road turn left and Border Path) with the Chattri 2 across the footbridge, over gate onto the tarmac road. road until you reach Stanmer Turn left and follow the follow it back to Stanmer on your right. Follow the the bypass, and turn left. Church on your left. bridleway towards High Park Village. dotted route on the map Cross the tarmac road Farm and head towards up to Ditchling Beacon and Follow the concrete road 8 and go through the At the T-junction take Highpark Corner. From the pond follow 3 up to the other side of opposite gate. Pass under then make your way round 3 the tarmac road on your 8 your original route the valley where you come the power lines and head to join up with the Stanmer right and follow the route Turn left just before the through the village and to a junction. towards the next gate at the Walk at route point 6. through Stanmer Village, 6 Ditchling Road, follow the park back to the Lower top of the hill. passing the Long Barn and the path through the woods Lodges and bus stop. Alternatively, follow the Turn right and pass Café on your right and the with the road on your bridleway at route point 4 through a small gate to Go through the gate and toilets on your left. right towards Piddinghoe the left of the track into the 9 head diagonally left across number 9 across the Open fi eld. Keep to the left as you the fi eld to the next gate. Access Land that will take you cross the fi eld and head up to Stanmer Park (see dotted As the map shows, BREEZE UP TO THE DOWNS the ridge until you come to Go through the gate and route on map). Pick up the much of the area south of a gate directly under the 10 head up the hill towards Stanmer Walk at route point the Chattri is Open Access The Brighton area has week and Ditchling Beacon electricity pylons. the A27 to the next gate. 7 (Upper Lodges) to make land . Wherever you see this excellent bus services at weekends. your way to the entrance of symbol you are free to leave with double-decker Go through the gate and Keeping the caravan See brighton-hove.gov.uk/ the park for the A27, bus stop the footpath to walk and Breeze buses serving the head up to the Chattri. 11 site below you to the and Falmer train station. breezebuses 5 right, head towards the foot picnic within the mapped popular Devil’s Dyke and or traveline.info/se bridge that you crossed over area. Please be aware of Stanmer Park seven days a for timetables and on the fi rst part of your walk. livestock and wildlife. more information. THE CHATTRI STANMER PARK TRAIL: ALLOW: PATH: A mix of roads TRAIL: GRADIENT: MAP: 2 hours and grassy tracks. Steep in places OS Explorer 122 DISTANCE: MAP: DISTANCE: 3.75 miles (6km) GRADIENT: OS Explorer 122 5.5 miles (8.5km) PATH: A mix of quiet Steep in places roads, uneven tracks and ALLOW: 3 hours forested paths.

Explore rolling open access land and Discover the beautiful woodland walks breathtaking views to the sea. and extensive open land of Stanmer Park. From the bus stop outside Enter the Chattri through Retrace your steps From the Stanmer Park At the end of the village, Plantation. Go through the 1 the Ladies Mile pub, 6 the gate. From the Chattri 12 back to the bus stop 1 bus stop at Stony Mere 4 with the pond on your gate, past the dew pond walk up Vale Avenue which head back in the direction opposite the Ladies Mile Pub. Way follow the tarmac road left go through the gate and and through another gate takes you to Horsedean you came but skirting the between the two white lower follow the bridleway past the under the power lines. Recreation Ground. woodland on your left. ALTERNATIVE lodge houses into Stanmer barn and wood on your left. Follow the open fi eld LONGER ROUTE Park. Continue through the towards Upper Lodges. Turn right and follow At the end of the trees, At the junction take the To visit Ditchling Beacon, park following the tarmac the track up to the right follow the small ridge on path on your right and Go through the gate 2 7 continue along the road for 700 metres. 5 keeping between the trees your left down to the gate follow the bridleway up the following the path bridleway at route point 6 7 and fence at the back of the keeping the rifl e range on At the fork in the road hill until you come to the through the woods. At the on the Chattri walk (Sussex houses. Take the fi rst left your left. Pass through the bear right and follow the electricity wires at Millbank. tarmac road turn left and Border Path) with the Chattri 2 across the footbridge, over gate onto the tarmac road. road until you reach Stanmer Turn left and follow the follow it back to Stanmer on your right. Follow the the bypass, and turn left. Church on your left. bridleway towards High Park Village. dotted route on the map Cross the tarmac road Farm and head towards up to Ditchling Beacon and Follow the concrete road 8 and go through the At the T-junction take Highpark Corner. From the pond follow 3 up to the other side of opposite gate. Pass under then make your way round 3 the tarmac road on your 8 your original route the valley where you come the power lines and head to join up with the Stanmer right and follow the route Turn left just before the through the village and to a junction. towards the next gate at the Walk at route point 6. through Stanmer Village, 6 Ditchling Road, follow the park back to the Lower top of the hill. passing the Long Barn and the path through the woods Lodges and bus stop. Alternatively, follow the Turn right and pass Café on your right and the with the road on your bridleway at route point 4 through a small gate to Go through the gate and toilets on your left. right towards Piddinghoe the left of the track into the 9 head diagonally left across number 9 across the Open fi eld. Keep to the left as you the fi eld to the next gate. Access Land that will take you cross the fi eld and head up to Stanmer Park (see dotted As the map shows, BREEZE UP TO THE DOWNS the ridge until you come to Go through the gate and route on map). Pick up the much of the area south of a gate directly under the 10 head up the hill towards Stanmer Walk at route point the Chattri is Open Access The Brighton area has week and Ditchling Beacon electricity pylons. the A27 to the next gate. 7 (Upper Lodges) to make land . Wherever you see this excellent bus services at weekends. your way to the entrance of symbol you are free to leave with double-decker Go through the gate and Keeping the caravan See brighton-hove.gov.uk/ the park for the A27, bus stop the footpath to walk and Breeze buses serving the head up to the Chattri. 11 site below you to the and Falmer train station. breezebuses 5 right, head towards the foot picnic within the mapped popular Devil’s Dyke and or traveline.info/se bridge that you crossed over area. Please be aware of Stanmer Park seven days a for timetables and on the fi rst part of your walk. livestock and wildlife. more information.