Wealden Walks

Abbots and Artists

5 Miles

3 Hours

Start: Alfriston Church, The Tye, Alfriston, BN26 5TL

Alciston village forms a lasting memorial to the medieval village. The church, manor house, dovecote, fish ponds and tithe barn, once owned by Battle Abbey, still dominate the village. By contrast, Berwick church contains a ...

The enigmatic long man

3 Miles

2 Hours

Start: Wilmington Car Park, Wilmington, Polegate, BN26 5SW

“The Long Man of Wilmington looks naked towards the shires” wrote Kipling of the enigmatic hill figure on the Downs. In the absence of much real information, speculation about its origins and what it represents ...

On the trail of the polished axe

3.5 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Jevington Car Park, Jevington, Polegate, BN26 5QJ

The earliest settlement in Sussex was on the chalk soils of the South Downs which were the easiest to work and farm in the county. The subsequent use of much of the downland as sheep ...

Yeoman and capons

4 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Hartfield Church, Church Street, Hartfield, TN7 4AG

The Buckhurst Terrier was not a small Tudor dog, but a survey of land (in Latin “terra”) in the Withyham and Hartfield area made for Lord Buckhurst in 1598. Four hundred years later much of ...

A vision of hell

4.5 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Mayfield Church, High Street, Mayfield, TN20 6AB.

“A Vision of Hell” would not be most people’s description of the area east of Mayfield today. However, in Tudor times this area was the iron-making, industrial capital of England, with the night sky lit ...

All at sea

4 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Pevensey Castle car park, High Street, Pevensey, BN24 5LE.

Prior to the Norman Conquest, the area now known as the Pevensey Levels, was a part of the sea, at least at high tide. Today the Pevensey Levels are now a wetland of international importance. ...

The defense of the realm

3 Miles

2 Hours

Start: Pevensey Castle car park, High Street, Pevensey, BN24 5LE

Although the exact line of the coast has moved through time, this coastline has been at the forefront of every invasion threat to England from Roman times to World War II. It is also the ...

Mansions and parks

2.5 Miles

1.5 Hours

Start: Hartfield Church, Church Street, Hartfield, TN7 4AG

The Buckhurst Terrier was not a small Tudor dog, but a survey of land (in Latin “terra”) in the Withyham and Hartfield area made for Lord Buckhurst in 1598. Four hundred years later much of ...