Ascent/Descent: 385 m
Net Walking Time: ca. 5 ½ hours
Toughness: 7 out of 10
or longer (with a loop through Petworth Park)
Length: from 26.5 km (16.5 mi)
Net Walking Time: from ca. 6 ¼ hours
or shorter (finishing in Petworth)
15 ¼ to 18 km (9.5 to 11.2 m)
Take the 09.36 Southampton
Central & Bognor Regis train from Victoria (09.43 CJ, 09.53 EC),
arriving Pulborough at 10.51. [Train splits at Horsham.]
Return trains: xx.24
and xx.55.
Return buses from
Petworth to Pulborough (Line 1 from Midhurst to Worthing): 14.44, 15.49,
16.54, 18.04, 19.14, 19.44 [Note: the buses do
not leave from the Market Square anymore (apart from the last bus of the day),
but ‘On A283 Angel Street, near Sheepdown Drive’. You may have to ask locally
where that is…]
Across the Arun valley and Greensand Hills to an
attractive town with one of the National Trust's finest properties, Petworth House.
Back to Pulborough on a more southerly route between the A283 and the Rother
valley, with views of the South Downs along the way. This is a mixed landscape
of farmland and wooded commons, with Hesworth Common being particularly
attractive. The route passes two fine old churches at Fittleworth and Stopham,
and crosses back over the River Arun on the medieval Stopham Bridge.
Lunch: Angel Inn (food served
all day) or The Star (food
served all day) in Petworth.
Tea: Plenty options in Petworth and The White Hart in Stopham (2.3 km from the end). T=swc.128.a
Tea: Plenty options in Petworth and The White Hart in Stopham (2.3 km from the end). T=swc.128.a
3 comments:
I Thought you take the Train from London Waterloo to Southampton. On that way?
Hi Marc, this one goes via the slower line to Southampton, from Victoria. The faster one from Waterloo does not go via Pulborough...
N=19 on this delightful walk. 18 were counted at the station and one joined us in the woods to do a circular walk from Fittleworth. Weather was w=cloudy-then-sunny.
Some people had lunch in Petworth Park, others in the Star, and at least one walker had lunch in the Angel Inn. Quite a few enjoyed a lovely drink at the White Hart at the end of the walk in mellow evening sunshine.
This lovely walk was enlivened by encounters with live stock – to wit a horse chewing away at a signpost, a bellowing bull and cows crossing from one field into another.
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