Angmering Circuit. Angmering Estate

A cooler day after the heat of sunny days over the weekend extended through Monday. I had a route planned through the woods of Angmering estate and then back through the fields on the south side of A27.

We parked up the dover lane - beside the Chestnut tree house - as this did not have a barrier. I think that it is little used due to the narrow lane access. We parked in the copse at the end of public access via the lane, and after a little socialising with a lady from the car in front we set off into the woods.

The track through the woods angled up to the tarmacked lane until it turned up towards Angmering Park stud farm. From here it transformed into a wide dirt track just in the edge of the woods. At the next junction we continued in the same direction after a small zigzag

Through the woods of Selden Fields and Surgeon's Fields, where we took a path that went down the side of a ploughed field. This track was partially ploughed over up to a crossroads of paths.

Still int he same direction but now the only faint trace showed where the path should be after the ploughing. Up a steep slope in Jewshead Wood to a path along the side of a vineyard.

Out of the woods into a barley field where the path was not obvious so we followed tractor tracks through it - from the other side we could see the track slightly higher than the one on the map. Then up the road into the village of Patching.

Out the other side and back into the fields dropping down to a small stream, then up the other side to come out at a bus stop on the side of the A280.

Down a lane opposite passing a series of depots - a timber yard and a council one then into the woods turning down to the A27. However the track did not exit onto the road, nor was there an exit opposite as was shown on the map.

So we turned back into the woods following another track angled towards the main road, but this also did not exit, however it circled back into what seemed to be a paintball arena. Luckily this was not in use and we could pass through back towards the depots.

We came out onto the A280 crossing over the A27 via two roundabouts. On the south side down a lane beside horse fields.

The track climbed up gently through Highdown Copse coming out to an iron age fort on the top of Highdown Hill.

Looking over the hill and down to the coast beyond Goring. Turning then up to the top of the fort

In the top of the fort and past the trig point.

Looking west down the far side of the hill towards Angmering and Littlehampton. Then across in front of the windmill (without sails)

Onto Ecclesden lane and around the manor of the same name. Then over the footbridge crossing the A280 into the outskirts of Angmering

Through the village then down a path leading to Ham Manor golf course.

The path crossed a fairway and down an exclusive driveway with residences each side backing onto the course.

The path was kept away from part of the exclusive residential area and we had to continue out the other side before cutting back through a field, just to keep the public off the club house access road. the path did go through a small part before escaping north.

The path passed a sports arena with a huge trampoline area, and back onto the golf course. The path over the course was not well signed and we did deviate as we tried to avoid the players - although we did have a golf ball drop exceedingly close at one point.

Eventually escaping the busy course into the fields beyond. This path ended at Piling going through the churchyard.

Past the manor house - not huge but did have a haw-haw - then down the back road that mutated into a farm track. Eventually leaving this to cross a barley field now heading back to the A27.

Now parallel to the main road through a field and then a separated and very overgrown path past some hen houses. We failed once again to cross the A27 at the point shown on the map and needed to take an alternative.

This involved dropping back to the farm drive and along it to the A284

Up the A284 to the junction at the end of the A27 dual carriageway. then over it to the Beefeater restaurant and then down the back road passing a convent and several residences. We turned into the woods on a muddy path.