Walk! the
South Downs with Martin Simons ISBN 978-1904946144 £12.99 160 pages in full colour with 40K scale OS mapping.
GPS navigation files available - see GPX Downloads Custom Maps for Garmins
Walk! the South Downs isbn 1-904946-14-3 £12.99
160 pages in full colour with 40K scale OS mapping plus Wire-O spiral binding.
Each walking route itinerary includes:-
- walking route summary
- ratings for Effort, Time, Distance, Ascents/Descents, Refreshments and Vertigo risk
- fully detailed walk description, including frequent timings to aid navigation and check your progress
- GPS Waypoints at every key point on every route for pin-point navigational accuracy
- full colour 1:40,000 scale OS map of the route
- short walk and stroll alternatives
There are some easy routes. There are some challenging routes for fit experts. With Martin's excellent walk descriptions you’ll know which routes are for you - and all of them are a true adventure.
Slip Cover and AWBB (All Weather Book Bag) available, send SAE to Discovery Walking Guides Ltd. 10 Tennyson Close. Northampton NN5 7HJ.
Amazon Reader Review: A more than excellent walking guide to the South Downs. Each walk I have sampled has explored the Downs via wonderfully enjoyable and less well trodden routes. Although I know the South Downs quite well, having walked over the area for years, Martin Simons has taken me through woods I never knew where there and around brows of hills into peaceful valley bottoms that I have never walked through before. Taking different pathways, off the main drag, means that you have to sure of your turnings and each of Martin Simmons markers have been spot on so far. His useful illustrations assist routing confidence and his accuracy so far prompts me to suggest that if you don't find the gate or the way marker he mentions you've gone the wrong way.
Wonderful walks and a thoroughly recommended guide. As another reviewer states as soon as you get back from one walk you are picking out another one to try.
Contents - Walk! the South Downs see Updates South Downs for Walk 31 Newburgh Arms is now a house not a pub!
The Author. Acknowledgements.
Introduction: The creation of the Downs. Man and the Downs. Churches. Flora & Fauna. The Walks. Equipment.
Map Information: Walk Location Maps. Symbols Rating Guide. Ordnance Survey Mapping. Using GPS on the South Downs.
THE WALKS
1 Lighthouse Family: 3 walker, 3 hours 10 mins, 7 miles/11.3km, ascents & descents 365 metres, vertigo risk, 2 refreshments (circular).
2 Crapham Bottom: 3 walker, 2 hours 10 mins, 6 miles/9.6km, ascents & descents 245 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
3 Seven Sisters: 4 walker, 3 hours 5 mins, 8.2 miles/13.2km, ascents & descents 480 metres, vertigo risk, 4 refreshments (circular).
4 The Long Man of Wilmington & Banofee Pie: 3 walker, 3 hours 25 mins, 8½ miles/13.6km, ascents & descents 340 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
5 Lullington Heath National Nature Reserve: 3 walker, 3 hours 35 mins, 9½ miles/15.2km, ascents & descents 260 metres, 4 refreshments (circular).
6 Alfristone & Bishopstone: 4 walker, 3 hours 40 mins, 10 miles/16.1km, ascents & descents 460 metres, 4 refreshments (circular).
7 Bopeep & The Cuckmere: 3 walker, 3 hours 5 mins, 7.8 miles/12.6km, ascents & descents 250 metres, 4 refreshments (circular).
8 Firle Beacon: 2 walker, 2½ hours, 6.6 miles/10.6km, ascents & descents 220 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
9 The Bloomsbury Set: 3 walker, 3¼ hours, 9.4 miles/15.1km, ascents & descents 320 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
10 Mount Caburn & Saxon Down: 4 walker, 3 hours 10 mins, 6.9 miles/11.1km, ascents & descents 415 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
11 Three Stations: 4 walker, 4 hours 20 mins, 12 miles/19.3km, ascents 440 metres, descents 500 metres, 3 refreshments (Linear).
12 Rodmell and Virginia Woolf: 3 walker, 3¼ hours, 8 miles/12.8km, ascents & descents 180 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
13 Kingston Spectacular: 3 walker, 2 hours 35 mins, 7.1 mile/11.4km, ascents & descents 340 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
14 Wolstonbury Hill: 3 walker, 2 hours, 5½ miles/8.9km, ascents & descents 230 metres, 1 refreshments (circular).
15 Battle of Lewes: 3 walker, 2½ hours, 7.8 miles/12½km, ascents & descents 305 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
16 Buckland Bank: 3 walker, 2 hours 40 mins, 6.3 miles/10.1km, ascents & descents 325 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
17 Stanmer Park & Ditching Beacon: 3 walker, 3 hours 20 mins, 8 miles/12.9km, ascents & descents 230 metres, 1 refreshments (circular).
18 Chattri & Windmills: 3 walker, 2 hours 25 mins, 6.9 miles/11km, ascents & descents 230 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
19 Devil’s Dyke & Castle Rings: 4 walker, 3 hours 25 mins, 8 miles/12.9km, ascents & descents 390 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
20 Thunderbarrow Hill: 4 walker, 3 hours 40 mins, 9.1 miles/14.6km, ascents & descents 430 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
21 Bramber Castle Family Walk: 1 walker, 1½ hours, 3½ miles/5.6km, ascents & descents 15 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
22 Chanctonbury Ring: 3 walker, 3¼ hours, 8.3 miles/13.4km, ascents & descents 320 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
23 Cissbury Ring: 3 walker, 3 hours 25 mins, 8.9 miles/14.3km, ascents & descents 360 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
24 Sullington & Storrington: 3 walker, 3¾ hours, 7½ miles/12km, ascents & descents 350 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
25 Harrow Hill & The Fairies: 3 walker, 3 hours, 8.2 miles/13.2km, ascents & descents 320 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
26 Rackham Mill & Parham Park: 3 walker, 2 hours 35 mins, 6½ miles/10½km, ascents & descents 250 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
27 Alfred the Great & Burpham: 2 walker, 2hours 50 mins, 6.3 miles/10km, ascents & descents 195 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
28 Arundel Park & Amberley: 4 walker, 4 hours 25 mins, 11.7 miles/18.8km, ascents & descents 400 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
29 The Arun Valley: 4 walker, 4½ hours, 12½ miles/20.1km, ascents 200 metres, descents 220 metres, 3 refreshments (linear).
30 Bignor, & Stane Street: 3 walker, 2 hours 55 mins, 7.9 miles/12.7km, ascents & descents 320 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
31 Slindon, & Rewell Woods: 3 walker, 3 hours 10 mins, 8 miles/12.9km, ascents & descents 330 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
32 Duncton & Barlavington: 3 walker, 2 hours 50 mins, 7½ miles/12km, ascents & descents 300 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
33 East Dean: 2 walker, 2 hours 5 mins, 4.9 miles/7.9km, ascents & descents 210 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
34 Singleton & Levin Down: 3 walker, 2¼ hours, 5.6 miles/9km, ascents & descents 280 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
35 Heyshott Escarpment: 4 walker, 2¾ hours, 6 miles/9.7km, ascents & descents 290 metres, 2 refreshments (circular).
36 Kingley Vale: 4 walker, 3¾ hours, 9.7 miles/15.6km, ascents & descents 470 metres, 4 refreshments (circular).
37 Two Mardens: 3 walker, 2 hours 50 mins, 7½ miles/12.1km, ascents & descents 330 metres, 1 refreshments (circular).
38 Harting Downs & The Devil’s Jumps: 4 walker, 3½ hours, 8.8 miles/14.2km, ascents & descents 480 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
39 Earl Godwin’s Chapel & The Red Lion: 3 walker, 3¼ hours, 8.8 miles/14.2km, ascents & descents 310 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
40 East Meon: 3 walker, 3¼ hours, 8.6 miles/13.8km, ascents & descents 370 metres, 3 refreshments (circular).
41 Old Winchester Hill: 3 walker, 1 hour 50 mins, 5 miles/8km, ascents & descents 220 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
42 Cheesefoot Head: 3 walker, 2 hours 55 mins, 7.2 miles/11.6km, ascents & descents 270 metres, 0 refreshments (circular).
