D This leaflet aims to encourage car-free travel from Lewes. It is T L E ra I 6 produced by the Lewes Town Partnership, which is supported F AD MALLING HILL in 2 RO s S ILL I SOUTH MALLING A M by Lewes Town Council. to T L P LEWES o BARCOMBE CROSS O on H d T a R M on PLUMPTON GREEN T m I A 2 lewestownpartnership.wordpress.com P o s V L 8 S e E LI a y R N 2 n o , G 9 d u B O S E th a U TR 2 B Company no. 04779872 D WILLEY’S OM PLUMPTON Sta. i D rc S E 9 CO tc o o E MALLING E B E h w m T TH l BRIDGE 1 BARCOMBE MILLS in n b g s e BROOKS 2 W a With support from our partners B n 5 DITCHLING e a d LANDPORT a y I 1 HASSOCKS c P LANDPORT sfi Lewes District Council and MUSEUM P o e 4 STREAT A BARCOMBE BOTTOM n ld BUS STATION 2 PELLS 3 South Downs National Park OF ART + EAST CHlLTINGTON 7 DITCHLING 5 B OF POOL buses 28, 29, 29B KEYMER 9 FH CRAFT 2 AM HI 123, 125, 143, 167 P P LL R RO A O A Y AD D A 2 1 W 7 6 P Y 5 E BROYLE SIDE L 7 L P 167 A CUILFAIL COOKSBRIDGE V NEVILL N WALLANDS C E P P H E A COOKSBRIDGE Sta. P V 1.St S I H P P FE S E U 143 L LIF L 29B L P C O WESTMESTON O 9 H LEWES U I X 2 R ILL L H T L PLUMPTON E 6 O L 1a CLIFFE Golf Course VICTORIA P P OO H S 2 A CASTLE CH S P HAMSEY S A HOSPITAL D S T T 16 167 U P E 7 E R S RINGMER P R T E S H R E 3 G T P P D I P IV 4 THE GALLOPS A H P O RAILWAY E JACK AND JILL HAMSEY 1 R R P LAND O DITCHLING BEACON OFFHAM RN U WINDMILLS CHURCH E . Black Cap T T S S E S E D O W 5 W . H N S W A Y S Mt. Harry 12 H. M. PRISON T 1 B H U O 9 ANNE OF LEWES STATION 2 G P O 6 U 8 S 2 I 7 CLEVES HOUSE T LEWES 1 H H 2 5 9 R GLYNDEBOURNE 2 VE CONVENT D SEE INSET 7 O 7 TH FIELD O 8 2 OU RUINS OF W 2 P A S ST PANCRAS PRIORY AD N HOUNDEAN O R SOUTHERHAM S BOTTOM S 9 GG 1b 7 W JU A 1 Y GLYNDE PLACE MACHINE Lewes Town Council CHATTRI 1a BY-PASS BOTTOM WAR B GLYNDE 29 7 A 2 A 2 3 7 MEMORIAL LEWES Sta. 2 29 1b 2 8 MT. CABURN 1 BROOKS 2 GLYNDE Sta. 3 STANMER S SOUTH DOWNS 7 U A2 S HOUSE S UNIVERSITY E P A27 3 X 2 O 125 Arlington ARLINGTON NATIONAL PARK 27 OF SUSSEX ASHCOMBE 1 U A S P WINDMILL SPRING BARN E Reservoir STANMER P V A FARM L L 5 PARK E 12 FIRLE PLACE FALMER P Y BEDDINGHAM CHARLESTON BERWICK Sta. For more ideas on car-free days out see AM 2b KINGSTON W A27 EX A FA S Y 4 P P LME TAD 125 R IU www.travelloglewes.co.uk Sta. M E FIRLE HOLLINGBURY SWANBOROUGH IFORD G S R B O HILLFORT 9 THE KEEP U E T For more on what to see and do in the Lewes area, visit T 2 8 T ra 2 S in 9 East Sussex H s 7 2 D W P to www.staylewes.org O 4 E Record Office A 1 a 8 W TITHE st Y 25 bo 2 N 1 5 ALCISTON u S RODMELL BARN rne Details correct at time of going to print. We do not accept any 23 and W P Hasting responsibility for loss, damage or injury, however caused, arising directly or A P MONK’S O W N S W A Y 47 s Y H D A27 indirectly from use of this leaflet. HOUSE SOUTHEASE U T FIRLE BEACON BERWICK DRUSILLAS BRIGHTON MOULSECOOMB Sta. O P YOUTH HOSTEL S BOPEEP BERWICK R Text and walks research: Tim Locke 3b E WILMINGTON CHURCH V Design and artwork: Andy Gammon Art & Design, Lewes 2a 6 I MILTON SOUTHEASE Sta. R STREET RESTON P 5 E P WOODINGDEAN 2 PARK Sta. SOUTHEASE R 1 E M 7 K 4 LONDON ROAD Sta. C 47 Exploring the R U The Long Man I ALFRISTON C V E P (chalk figure) places and R BRIGHTON Sta. O P P CAR-FREE U landscapes 1 S CHURCH AND LULLINGTON COURT 2 E BRIGHTON OVINGDEAN 3 CLERGY HOUSE around Lewes buses 12, 28, 29, 29B, 79 PIDDINGHOE on foot and by DAYS OUT SOUTH HEIGHTON LITLINGTON ROEDEAN P a public transport FROM LEWES in ar ROTTINGDEAN M n to NEWHAVEN BISHOPSTONE gh BISHOPSTONE ri SALTDEAN TOWN Sta. CHURCH B 12 7 3 4 A259 PEACEHAVEN NEWHAVEN 7 HARBOUR Sta. 4 NEWHAVEN 1 12 2 WESTDEAN TIDE MILLS EXCEAT BRIDGE NEWHAVEN SEAFORD EXCEAT FORT 1 P BIS2HOPSTONE Sta. 47 A25 12 9 5 12 SEAFORD Sta. EAST DEAN MARTELLO THE ENGLISH CHANNEL MUSEUM P n S O U ve T H D ad 4 a O W e H N H re T S W rd e H E A Y fo km S E ea c V S Cu E N S I S T E R S p Ditchling Museum. Photo: Brotherton and Lock. Cuckmere Haven. Photo: Tim Locke. a G g lin ir B Key to map Sundial on Bishopstone church porch. Photo: Tim Locke. Walk featured in day out 1 Physical terrain, high to low 2a Walk featured in day out 2 Urban space 2 Walk featured in day out 3 A2 Road 2 7 SOUTH DOWNS Walk featured in other days out Railway station NATIONAL PARK Other walk P Place of interest / Pub Featured cycle path 167 Featured bus route PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFORMATION For information about public transport including bus DAY OUT 1 DAY OUT 2 DAY OUT 3 OTHER DAYS OUT routes and timetables visit www.traveline.info/se . RODMELL AND MONK’S HOUSE GLYNDE, FIRLE, CHARLESTON AND BERWICK CHURCH PLACES OF INTEREST SEAFORD AND THE SEVEN SISTERS PANORAMA The Discovery Ticket gives unlimited travel across the South Along the River Ouse, or over the Downs, to visit the Woolfs’ A wonderful blend of scenery, historic houses and unspoilt Mount Caburn One of Sussex’s most impressive hillforts, with By train to Lewes’ nearest stretch of coast, to see the DITCHLING BEACON AND DITCHLING VILLAGE Downs and beyond in the south of England. Sussex home. Walk from Lewes or take the train. Optional villages, including places closely associated with the visible Iron Age and Saxon ramparts and views down the Ouse atmospheric remains of a huge tide mill, Bishopstone’s Saxon Walk via South Downs Way from Lewes, along Spital Road and www.southdowns.gov.uk/discoveryticket. circular walk from Southease railway station. Bloomsbury Group. Although the whole route involves a full Valley. A national nature reserve, where a range of species thrive church, Seaford’s unique museum, and a walk over Seaford alongside the prison wall, then right at bridleway signpost, left day’s walk, it can be divided into short sections by using bus on the south-facing grassland slopes, including orchids and rare Head to get the classic view of the Seven Sisters, one of Eng - at stables and buildings, later keeping forward on South Downs National rail enquiries Tel: 03457 484950, BUS No.123 and train, with several pubs and tea rooms to wait in until your butterflies. A popular haunt of paragliders. land’s great coastal highlights. Optional extension along the Way (5 miles, 8km, 2hr 30min, hilly), or take the infrequent bus www.nationalrail.co.uk. Lewes–Newhaven (Monday–Saturday). Alight Abergavenny bus or train is due. There’s also an optional diversion to Cuckmere valley for a return by bus. No.167 from Lewes to Ditchling; walk from Ditchling to Ditchling Arms, then a 5-minute walk along The Street (on the right-hand Glyndebourne opera house. Glynde An estate village built for Glynde Place, ( Tel: 01273 858224, Beacon. Return by bus No.79 (hourly at weekends and bank BUS COMPANIES side of the pub). www.glynde.co.uk ) the Elizabethan house at the north end, BUS No.12 Cuckmere Haven to Seaford and Bishopstone holidays only) to Brighton, for frequent trains and buses back to BUS No.125 from Lewes to Glynde, Firle, Charleston (entrance Brighton and Hove (routes 12, 28, 29, 29B, 79; Saver adjacent to the classical chapel is home to the VIIth Viscount and stations, for return leg. Option to extend walk to Alfriston, then Lewes. TRAIN Southease then circular walk (2.5 miles, 4km, 1 hour). road at A27), Alciston, Berwick Church and Alfriston. Cuckmere tickets, cover all-day travel) Tel: 01273 886200, Viscountess Hampden and is open to the public on some days. bus No.125 to Lewes. Leave Southease station on platform 1 side, follow the track, over Valley Ramblerbus 47 (weekends, Easter to October) makes a www.buses.co.uk.