An Afternoon walk this week, as there was only a video call for the band, and it finished early, Picnic packed and off to the south downs again .. this time on the road to Arundel, stopping near where the south downs way crosses. The idea was to park at the Whiteways carpark and head up to Bignor hill and back via the south downs way.
The walk started off along the byway heading West and North-West through the forest. There were a large number of people in the carpark .. huge number of bikes, and biers doing what they do when congregating in large numbers, off road cyclists darting around and families both and off bikes, It was two kilometers before we got away from the mass and just had the occasional walker to contend with.
Lunch stop, we had escaped from the forest, and finally could look over to the coast. Bertie of course wanted his and ours.
After lunch, there was a short path to the carpark above the Bignor roman villa. The signpost here shows the roman road to London and Chichester.
then a long pull up the rolling hill to Bignor hilltop a chalk road cut into the hillside.
The views from the top were all around
Now some significant down ... first gentle then steeper
You could see the rise on the other side as well - did not help the motivation.
The stretch up the other side .. not a steep but we gained almost all the height we had lost.
It was good to look back at Bignor hill and the way we had come.
Around here the GPS device ran out of batteries .. but we were on the last lap, just back down the side of the forest
Back to the van, and the masses ... was good to leave. If we come back - there is a section of the south downs way to Amberley from here .. then we should do so at a quieter time.
