Others who have found inspiration roaming Notes on the walk ’ ’ the whale-backed Downs around South Downs Walks with more info at: www.kiplingfestivalrottingdean.co.uk Rottingean include writers Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, DH Lawrence, Oscar Bazehill Road 2 was the route Wilde, Enid Bagnold and Angela Thirkell, taken by the Kiplings in their pony cart ’ artists William and Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash, up to the motherly Downs for ’ Aubrey Beardsley and William Morris - while jam-smeared picnics . ROTTINGDEAN movie stars like Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Cary The lost village of Balsdean 4 was Grant and Julie Andrews enjoyed stays at 800 years old when Canadian soldiers the Tudor Close Hotel. Following in their used it for target practice in WW2, footsteps with the wide sky above and the in the footsteps leaving little to see today except a pewter sea below may bring to mind , , plaque marking the chapel s altar. Kipling s personal tribute to the Downs: , of A Rifle Range at Lustrell s Vale 6 God gives all men all earth to love, Kipling was started during the Boer War by but, since man's heart is small, Kipling who was concerned about the ordains for each one spot shall prove lack of training and preparedness of beloved over all. and Company local youth. Each to his choice, and I rejoice Whiteway Lane 8 was once The lot has fallen to me the route for 17th and 18th century In a fair ground - in a fair ground - smugglers whisking their goods out of Yea, Sussex by the sea! , the village and inspiring Kiplin g s TRANSIT INFORMATION The Smuggle r,s Song: buses.co.uk nationalrail.co.uk Five and twenty ponies , Parking, W.C s, and refreshments in trotting through the dark, Rottingdean Village and on the seafront Brandy for the Parson, 'baccy for the Clerk. Please follow the A 2 3 coutryside code at Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, LO N D O N 6 R 2 all times. O L South Downs National Park A A O 6 D N 2 6 A 2 D A Watch the wall, my darling, 6 This map may be used O N Lewes 2 R Lewes A in conjunction with O Patcham A DA A Patcham 2 27 Falmer 3 A Falmer while the Gentlemen go by! 27 OS Explorer 122 L A O 2 B 7 N 7 27 2 3 A2 B 2 D 7 A 2 2 7 A A A A O 1 2 2 N 2 1 7 D 3 A D 2 A27 LO 3 O A Beddingham R N O R O Beddingham D A R A27 O S D A E S N A W E 2 E W was home to the artist 2 L The Grange 9 R 3 E O 3 L A W D O F 6 WODIN DEA RD O G F O N A D 6 DIN GDEA R 2 Hove N A L Hove M 2 L E M A A R B 259 E A R B William Nicholson 1909 to 1914. R A259 Brighton 2 R 2 Brighton O A 1O A D 2A 1 2A D 2 529 3 59 3 7 SalStdaeltadn ean NNewewhhaavveen n 9 Rudyard Kipling first stayed in A 8 25 9A2S5 O9 S Peacehaven 1 UT OU Peacehaven9 H C TH 5 O 9 ROTTINGDEAN s C 2 ROTTINGDEAN ASTOA A A ROST 2 5 AD RO Rottingdean with his aunt Georgiana and AD e n o J - Edward Burne-Jones at Prospect Cottage as e n r u a boy and his own son John was born there B p i l i in 1897. The young family then rented The h Elms until 1902 before moving to Burwash. P Well known pieces written while Kipling lived www.rottingdeanpreservationsociety.org.uk SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK in the village include The Just So Stories, Kim, Recessional and Stalky and Co. www.southdowns.gov.uk m o c . l i TRAIL : 3 miles ALLOW : 2 hours a m g @ h c PATH : Mix of Road, Track and Grassland i n m 5 l u a p : Easy with moderate inclines, rolling Downs, N O I T A muddy in places N I G I R O DIRECTIONS AND POINTS OF INTEREST m o c . l i a 1 From the War Memorial and Village Green m g , @ n o cross the road to St. Margaret s church , turn s d i v a d left and walk two streets up to s a d n a 4 m a 2 Bazehill Road . Turn right and follow uphill as : N O I T the road becomes a single lane and leads to A R T S U L Panoramic views of the open downland, L 3 I coastline, racecourse, windmill and the English Channel . 4 The route dips, revealing the beautiful Balsdean Valley , then halfway down 3 5 Take a right turn, through a gate opposite a farm track. Go south along the grass path, through a second gate, and along the edge of the field, on the far side of the Balsdean Farm buildings. Go through a third gate, walk straight through more open farmland with views toward Saltdean . 6 2 7 6 At the bottom of the fields the path cuts 8 between two houses and out onto Bishopstone Road . , 7 Look left down into Lustrell s Vale where 10 Kipling set up a training rifle range in 1898. 8 1 Turn right onto Whiteway Lane leading 9 back down to the village and at the bottom turn right 9 at The Grange , once the vicarage, now the _ _ _ Footpath Library, Art Gallery and Museum with Kipling ; Room, and Visitor Information Point, turn Park right to p ; Toilets , p 10 Return to the War Memorial , facing Kiplng s p Parking house, The Elms . Look left across The Green Bus stop to Prospect Cottage and Aubrey House ; , where Kipling s aunt Georgiana and Edward Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter, lived, worked and first welcomed Kipling to the village..