I am following the footsteps of Arthur Stanley Cooke in his book Off The Beaten Track. This time I am walking from Devil’s Dyke in West Sussex towards Mile Oak along the Sussex Border Path with the aim to reach Southwick and later Kingston. If you are following the text in the book, it’s Chapter […]
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I have gone for an impromptu walk over the South Downs to the east of upper Beeding. The weather is muggy and the clouds are grey, but the landscape is super and the wild flowers raise my spirits. It is a wonderful place. Even a short walk on the Sussex chalky hills can clear the […]
I am not a historian, and occasionally I make some mistakes in my videos. I don’t mind because my viewers are very good at pointing the errors out. Bless them. However, wouldn’t it be good if I didn’t make quite so many historical blunders. Well, perhaps there are some folk out there who would care […]
This is a footnote video to the previous main feature where I walk to Edburton in West Sussex. I look at the chalky access, avoid some cows, trundle along the South Downs Way before plunging down again to look for the source of the Edburton spring, which probably provided water for the original Saxons when […]
I have been following Arthur Stanley Cooke, the author of Off The Beaten Track, written 100 years ago as he tramps over Sussex. In this four part mini-series, I finally arrive at the tiny downland village of Edburton and end up at St Andrew’s Church. On my route I pass an old manor house, a […]