I normally do this on a Sunday, but there was a lot to squeeze into the past seven days, so today’s Catch UP in on the Monday (or whenever you happen to watch this, really). The Catch Up is where I look at the week’s videos and projects and bring you up to speed with […]

This is a footnote to my main feature visiting Poynings and seeks the source of the spring that led to the village’s founding in earlier times. In this episode I take a circular walk around the environs with the intention of ending up by the second, and northerly watermill. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORERMy videos […]

I was once asked by a viewer, ‘how do you plan your walks?’. The answer is I look at maps. The best map in the UK is the Ordnance Survey map in paper form which you take with you. But there are other maps to use while planing a route. Maps mentioned in the video:Side […]

I am following in the footsteps of Arthur Stanley Cooke, author of Off The Beaten Track, a book about Sussex published a hundred years ago. In this episode I am approaching the rural village of Poynings from Devil’s Dyke. I seek out the source of its water, look for the old water mill and mill […]

As a footnote to the main video in which I recently visited the beauty spot on the Sussex South Downs known as the Devil’s Dyke, I take a walk along the Victorian built Dyke Railway Trail. There is a path, now tarmacked, along which steam locomotives and carriages full of day trippers, once travelled up […]

This is Part Two of my Hangleton to Edburton walk. Chapter 4 from Off The Beaten Track by Arthur Stanley Cooke, that I am following in my In Search for Sussex series. In this episode I have left Hangleton behind and I’m climbing the Sussex South Downs to Devil’s Dyke, a well known beauty spot […]