Here is another week behind the scenes of the Bald Explorer. I am running about as ever trying to get the videos made. I am in Fishbourne with the Lovely Julia, the Devil’s Jumps with the wonderful Cynthia and on my tod just north of Lewes on muddy paths. My videos are funded 100% by […]
The Gallery Show today comes from Boxgrove Priory near Chichester in West Sussex. A Saxon church had existed on the site before the Conquest. The Priory was founded for three Benedictine monks in the 12th century, and was owned by the Lessay Abbey in Normandy. The Bald Explorer has a page on Facebook. Attached to […]
This is the second part of my walk that started along the Sussex Ouse Valley from Hamsey in East Sussex. I paused in Barcombe before I decided to return along another route. However immediately I have problems because the farmer, whose land the path runs across, decided to bar the way with an electric fence! […]
I am in Hamsey, a tiny village just north of Lewes in East Sussex. I am exploring a section of the Sussex Ouse Valley Way, a beautiful 42 mile journey that broadly follows the river Ouse from its source close to Lower Beeding in the High Weald to the sea at Seaford Bay. I am […]
Today I am walking near Eartham Wood, through Gumber Farm and back along Stane Street. I am close to Slindon in West Sussex and taking a stroll with The Friends of the Southdowns. My guide is John Mayes. At Gumber farm there was once a decoy airfield that served to divert enemy planes during the […]
Part Two of the walk up to Chanctonbury Ring with Julia and her son and myself. The famous ring of trees were planted by Charles Goring in 1760 on the iron age hill fort on the Southdowns in West Sussex is interesting. As a boy, it is said, he carried buckets of water up the […]