Start/finish Stanmer Park, TQ337/096 Total distance 12.2km (7.6 miles) Total ascent 351m (1151ft) Time 1-1.5 hours Map OS Landranger 1:50K No.198 Brighton & Lewes Summary A great introduction to all the ups and downs of the Downs. 1 Turn right out of the car park (opposite the church) and go right again, past the tea room, keeping ahead on the bridleway through a gate. Follow the track uphill, keeping ahead at crosstracks in the trees, bearing left and downhill. 2 Follow grassy track uphill, through a gate to T-junction and turn right, heading downhill to houses (St Mary’s Farm). Turn left and keep left at fork. Follow this bridleway uphill, to a crosstracks at the top shortly past a farm. 3 Turn left along the top on the South Downs Way (SDW), to and over a road, through the Ditchling Beacon car park and continue along the SDW. After 0.3km take the second bridleway on the left (after the beacon) and follow it downhill. 4 At the fork after 1km, where the track narrows and fades, keep left, then bearing right then left to the road. Cross the road into the trees and go left at the junction, following this bridleway track downhill (there is an alternative singletrack trail that runs to the right of this bridleway track). 5 Turn right at the obvious crosstracks, underneath the power cables, and retrace your steps back downhill to Stanmer village, this time stopping at the tea room.by wmbsu
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