Phil and Jo Fletcher-Lee

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Walks at the moment: We are trying to finish the Birketts, just 30 left out of 541 including Pillar Rock as the finale. Finished the Wainwrights in 2013, last one Slight Side. We enjoy walking in the Yorkshire dales, having done most of the 2,000ers in the old boundaries that was once North Riding and interested in the Nuttalls - keep adding the lists. Welsh 3,000 also lots of good stuff to do in Scotland - plenty of summits2do MAIN BLOG PICTURES PLEASE CLICK TO ENLARGE ALSO CLICK OLDER BLOGS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR PREVIOUS YEARLY POSTINGS

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

SOUTH DOWNS WAY


Having moved on from Essex we travelled down to Sussex to walk part of the South Downs way, again taking our lead from Robert MacFarlane and walking the stretch from Beacon Hill eastwards towards Storrington. The sustained ridge of chalk runs through beautiful countryside which was awash with butterflies, pink clover and orchids and again another beautiful sunny day.

We walked pass Bronze Age Burial mounds, Neolithic long barrows and even a wayside shrine to a German airman killed in 1940. With the grass flickering in the wind we walked leisurely until we decided to head back to Beacon Hill, more by accident than intent we came back a different way, passing a sign posted by Jumbo Olphert to beware of the bull and sheep grazing – we saw the bull and made a wide detour.

Finished the day off with a couple of pint of Fuller’s London Pride -  beautiful countryside, great pubs, fantastic weather and not many people – bonus!
 



 
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