Exploring Heritage, Landscape and Nature
A more personal set of videos exploring England, it’s towns, villages and countryside.
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 […]
The lovely Julia and I will be travelling along the busy A24, the London to Worthing road, over the next few weeks and stopping to look at some of the villages that once had the road travel through them, but now have been bypassed. We start with Findon, a large village, three miles north of […]
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 […]
I am out again exploring the Sussex footpaths – but this time I am not sure where I am going. A great big Georgian pile looms out of the miss, but I am not allowed in and a road that goes up a hill but to where? PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORER My videos are […]
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 […]
This is part two of my walk to the Trig Point on the Southdowns over Sompting, in West Sussex. Having left the trig at the top of the chalky hill, I am making my way around the more muddier bottom of the hill and heading back to my car. I am curious to see the […]