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Sunday, 15 January 2023

Sunday walk - Lewes to Saltdean

This posting is predicated on a current forecast of dry and reasonably bright weather on Sunday, hoping it might dispel the blues forecast for Monday.  The walk follows the South Downs over a chalk ridge in the morning before descending to Rodmell for lunch, then goes over the downs again and down to Saltdean where hardy folk may swim in the sea and others may have tea and cake in the beach cafe.

Length: 15.5km(9.6 miles). Shorter options are outlined in the walk directions.

Difficulty: 4 out of 10

Trains: Catch the 9.46 Ore train from London Bridge to Lewes, arriving 10.50.
Return: From Saltdean, you can catch a bus to Brighton station from the bus stop next to the beach or you could walk along the undercliff path to Brighton. There are frequent trains from Brighton back to London.
A return ticket from London to Lewes will be valid for travel from Brighton.

Lunch: The Abergavenny Arms in Rodmell, tel 01273 472416. Other options in directions.

Tea: The aforementioned beach cafe in Saltdean. Other options in Brighton

Direction, map a nd GPS here

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1 comment:

Wanderer said...

N=8 set off from Lewes in w=bright_sunshine-and-a_bracing-breeze-turning-to-hail-showers-and-more-prolonged-rain-in-the-afternoon. One fast walker soon left the rest of us behind. We seven had a picnic lunch outside Southease church in pleasant sunshine, sheltered from the wind. As we got up to leave, a bank of grey cloud was rising from the south and 2 decided to head for Southease station. Five continued to Saltdean and rainwear was soon donned and put to the test as wind and rain battered us. On reaching Saltdean,four jumped on a bus to Brighton and one went to the beach cafe to look at the swollen sea pounding the shore. The cloud has now lifted and I'm watching the sunset.