Southdowns Way – Jack and Jill Windmills to Ditchling Beacon

Southdowns Way - Jack and Jill Windmills to Ditchling Beacon

I am exploring the Southdowns Way and in this video I take a short walk from the jack and Jill windmills above Clayton in East Sussex to wonderful beauty spot, Ditchling Beacon. It’s a cold, reasonably bright winter’s morning and the walk is probably only a mile and a half, but there is plenty to […]

Terrapins the Size of Dinner Plates and Family Graves

Terrapins the Size of Dinner Plates and Family Graves

The plan was to take a walk from Ditchling in East Sussex to a secret bunker hidden in the countryside, but the weather has defeated us. However, we shall do the walk later in the Spring – meanwhile, Darren tells me about the peculiar giant terrapins in the local pond and of his ancient family […]

In Search of Hawkesbourne Castle near Horsham

In Search of Hawkesbourne Castle near Horsham

In today’s video I am treading in the footsteps of one of my viewers, Glen Johnson, who stalked the woodland above Horsham in search of Hawkesbourne Castle – a fortified moated manor house built, apparently, BEFORE the Motte and Bailey Castle a mile to the south. I have trouble keeping the woodland path marked on […]