As we descended from the Devil’s Dyke, we found ourselves on the Dyke Railway Trail, with views of the countryside and farm animals, out to the English Channel and Hove on the coast.
Descent
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Descending to Rottingdean
“Rottingdean is a village in the city Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. It borders the villages Saltdean, Ovingdean and Woodingdean, and has a historic centre, often the subject of picture postcards.” Some of its more renowned residents include Rudyard Kipling, Enid Bagnold, and Edward Burne-Jones.
But You Can’t Make Me Drink
Off to the Races
A Horse is a Horse, of Course, of Course
Horse on the Horizon
Horse Portrait
Foggy Morning
Deep fog a couple of weeks ago – continued even as I took the train in to London later that morning (see images below).
Upper Illium?
We walked up to the Upper Hale (one of Farnham’s villages) to see how they’d integrated the dilapidated chapel into the landscaping design of the cemetery (the work in this article has been completed.) Emerging into the Upper Hale we saw this house with its equine wooden sculpture (we didn’t check inside for Greek soldiers).
Muddy Horses
From our walk through Dora’s Green on Christmas Day, to Dippenhall.
Horse Portraits
From the same walk along the North Downs Way about a week ago. Happy New Year!
Log, Pond, and Horse
More from last week’s walk on the North Downs Way, which starts a few minutes’ walk from our flat.
Horses
One of our walks takes us past a horse (and donkey) farm. There were some new residents this time.
Horses
Close to Land’s End
In the distance of the first picture you can see some white buildings. That’s as close as we got to Land’s End, the most westerly point in the country. Somewhere along the way we passed a Bronze Age barrow cemetery but it wasn’t tremendously apparent where it began and ended. If you click to enlarge the picture of the beach (click the post title first if you’re seeing this in an email), you can see a couple of people down there to provide some sense of scale and distance. As we walked back from almost-Land’s End to Nanjizal we came upon the same herd of horses who again tried nibbling at my clothes (while one napped).
Nanjizal
On Thursday 25 May, the penultimate of our walking group tour, we started out from Nanjizal. The horse below (click to see it larger) came right up and started chewing on my shirt, then my jeans and then started nuzzling my backpack. It either was smelling my lunch in there or was merely hoping for some food, I think. The long straight line in the map is us driving from Nanjizal up to Botallack. More about that anon. If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.
Walkhampton Common, 3
On the same 10-mile hike shown in the last 2 posts we also came upon horses in the trail. I thought one of the colts was about to come right up to me but at the last moment it shied away. If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.
Merrivale Stone Circle
After leaving the prison museum we went up to have a look at the neolithic Merrivale Stone Circles and Rows. While the pictures are not particularly impressive, the sight of these ancient mysterious constructions fills one with awe. If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.
Driving South
Next we took a combination of A3x roads towards our destination of Lyme Regis and I managed a few snaps out the window as we went (I wasn’t the one driving). As we grew closer to Lyme Regis we passed through thick fog, or maybe a cloud.
A Very Large Statue
