As we got closer to Hangleton we were struck by the bright yellow flowers which Google told us (and not for the first time, such is the nature of our online addictions and distractions) was rapeseed.
Rapeseed
Tag: South Downs
Cloud Cover
I liked the way the clouds appeared to follow the line of the Spring blossoms.
Walking Around
From the bus stop and visitors’ centre, we walked around the shoulder of the valley, aiming for a view down into the valley.
Devil’s Dyke
A couple of weeks ago we took the bus up to the Devil’s Dyke and walked home from there.
Devil’s Dyke, just five miles north of Brighton, offers stunning panoramas, a record breaking valley, a curious history and England’s most colourful habitat.
At nearly a mile long, the Dyke valley is the longest, deepest and widest ‘dry valley’ in the UK. Legend has it that the Devil dug this chasm to drown the parishioners of the Weald. On the other hand, scientists believe it was formed naturally just over 10,000 years ago in the last ice age.
With a little exploring the Dyke’s story starts to reveal itself: The ramparts or walls of the Iron Age hill fort can be seen when you walk around the hill and the remains of the curious Victorian funfair can be found just a few minutes from the car park. Venture into the valley and you will discover a living carpet of flowers and a myriad of colourful insects.
When John Constable described the panorama from Devil’s Dyke as ‘the grandest view in the world’, he wasn’t wrong, but there is so much more to discover here than just a beautiful view.
Over the next few days I’ll be posting images from that walk.
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.
More South Downs Landscapes
Don’t Take a Fence
Till the Cows Come Home
Still more from our walk from Falmer to Rottingdean. Beginning to get used to walking through a field of cows.
A View of a Distant Sea
More from the October ramble from Falmer to Rottingdean.
Alone
South Downs
In October we joined the Ramblers for a walk from Falmer to Rottingdean (a little over 7 miles) on the South Downs. I took a lot of landscape pictures of the lovely English countryside along the way (more to come in future posts).
As I’m just getting to mid-October pictures now in December I’ll revert to 2 posts a day until I’m a bit more caught up.
Greatest Of All Time
Landscape with Cows
Vista
Chanctonbury Ring
This was the goal of our ramble. We stopped for refreshment near the tree line, then made our way back down.
Cows
Back in April we took a walk with the Brighton Ramblers from Steyning town up to the Chanctonbury Ring, and unbeknownst to me I was recording images on chip 2 of my camera, where the next few days’ images remained until being discovered a couple of weeks ago,