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 […]

In today’s episode, I thought I would go in search of the author that I have been following of late. One hundred years ago he wrote Off The Beaten Track, a celebration of walks in his beloved county of Sussex. But who was the man? How much do we know? And what tragedy befell him […]

In today’s episode, I continue to explore the ‘Port’s Road’, the ancient track that passes through Hangleton and Portslade. The Iron Age trackway passes Hangleton Manor, where Arthur Stanley Cooke, the author of Off the Beaten Track, started his walk in Chapter 4 of his book that I am following. To understand the area better […]