Start/Finish Rottingdean long stay car park, TQ370/021 Total distance 25.1km (15.6 miles) Total ascent 788m (2585ft) Time 2-3.5 hours Map OS Landranger 1:50K No.198 Brighton & Lewes Summary Travel far and wide, along the coast and through the valleys on this big, but easy to navigate and fast paced route. 1 Go left out of the car park, to lights/crossroads left on High Street, keeping right on slipway to seafront. Go right on concrete track below the cliffs, all the way to the start of the marina and bear right, uphill, to the A259. Go right beside, then left over this road to join the B2066. 2 Turn right at the golf club, joining the bridleway, uphill, keeping right at the top, then downhill and sharp left at T-junction before Ovingdean. Continue uphill, keeping left at a fork, past the golf then race courses to a road beyond the car park. Go left on road then right on byway (Drove Road) when road bears left. 3 Follow this track ahead and right at a fork, between the houses and fields, over the B2123 and right at the next fork. Bear left at a fork 100m before the radar mast. Follow this downhill to a crosstracks at the bottom by some trees. Turn left. 4 Bear right by old barns on faint bridleway, becoming uphill and more obvious, then better track by farm buildings and bearing right over cattle grid. Join the South Downs Way (SDW), following the signposts until the bottom of a steep grassy field, after a lone (gated) house, at farm track T-junction. 5 Head right, leaving the SDW, through farm, following the track left through gate then bearing right uphill, to a road. Go right on the road, through Telscombe, uphill, over cattle grid at the top and keep ahead, and stay ahead off-road as road bears left. 6 Continue downhill, to and over the A259, then right for 1km. Cross the roundabout before turning left. Keep left to head to the seafront. Turn right along the seafront, back to Rottingdean and turn right by the White Horse Hotel. Turn right at the crossroads/lights to head uphill to the car park.by wmbsu
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