Sat25Aug - BRIGHTON - Action4Access walk

[Tony Gosling]

Sent out by Action 4 Access (based in Brighton area):
email: <action4access at gmail.com>

Saturday 25th August

This month we repeat a walk which Dave Bangs led in May 2009 to look 
at some Access Land which is very near to built up areas and is 
therefore truly accessible and has lots of lovely sites.

Meet at Foredown Tower (Grid ref TQ 256073) at 11am  Bus no 6 leaves 
Brighton Station at 10 18 (stop C) and Churchill Square 10 23 Get off 
at Foredown Road and it's a 5min walk to Foredown Tower.

We will walk north over Mount Zion and down to the Access Land on the 
east slope of New Bank Farm. Dave's notes of the original walk say 
that although this has been abused in the past it has a long history 
of grazing management.There are certainly lots of downland flowers 
and Blue butterflies in a continuous mile-long strip with good stiles 
and notices. Then over Fulking Tenantry Down where there are remains 
of the medieval field system where the Sussex Border Path and the 
South Downs way go through more Access Land on Fulking Hill and the 
scarp slope..Then we turn south towards Perching Barn and onto Access 
Land at Tenant Hill. Next over Southwick Hill which Dave says is "the 
best managed site on the Brighton urban fringe and the best place to 
get some sense of what the Downs were like in Victorian times".  From 
here we can drop down into Mile Oak to get a (very frequent) no 5 bus 
back to Brighton or continue down the Sussex Border path which slips 
quietly between houses to the noisy Old Shoreham Road.

  It's an walk with very little cover and no refreshment (or any 
other) facilities so remember to bring water, lunch and suncream in 
case we get one of our occasional hot and sunny days.

Sussex Downlanders Access Walk
http://stravaigerjohn.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/sussex-downlanders-access-walk/
Saturday 25th August
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