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Lagoons at Rye Harbour

Rye Harbour

Difficulty - Easy

Wide skies, lonely seas and lagoons form the backdrop to this remote coastal walk, which is excellent for birding.

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Great Dixter's gardens

Great Dixter

Difficulty - Easy

A pleasant walk on the Sussex/Kent border, highlighting the skill and creativity of a famous architect and a gifted gardening writer.

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Winchelsea's land-locked port

Monks Walk, Winchelsea

Difficulty - Medium

Explore a Cinque Port with a record of bad luck before following an historic line of defence.

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Hastings Old Town and Hill

Hastings

Difficulty - Hard

Follow cliff-side trails and travel by cliff railway on this spectacular coastal walk.

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Battle – Britain's most famous battlefield

Battle

Difficulty - Medium

Take a walk into history and visit the field where two men famously fought each other for the English crown.

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Burwash – Rudyard Kipling's Home

Burwash

Difficulty - Medium

Visit the National Trust home of one of Britain's most celebrated writers on this lovely walk in the Dudwell Valley.

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Brightling's folly trail

Brightling

Difficulty - Easy

Step into the colourful world of 'Mad Jack' Fuller on this wonderfully varied exploration of the High Weald.

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History and science at Herstmonceux

Herstmonceux

Difficulty - Easy

A wooded walk passing a medieval castle and a 20th-century observatory.

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Romans and Normans at Pevensey Levels

Pevensey

Difficulty - Easy

Visit a Norman castle within a Roman fort and experience the atmosphere of the eerie Pevensey Levels on this fascinating walk.

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Birling Gap to Beachy Head

Birling Gap

Difficulty - Medium

A magnificent clifftop walk exploring a scenic stretch of the Sussex coast.

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The Snake River and Cuckmere Haven

Cuckmere Haven

Difficulty - Medium

Follow a breezy trail beside the Cuckmere River as it winds in erratic fashion towards the sea.

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Alfriston and Berwick

Berwick

Difficulty - Medium

Beginning in the Cuckmere Valley, this breezy walk climbs high on to the Downs before visiting a church renowned for its wall painting.

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Wilmington's Long Man

Wilmington

Difficulty - Medium

This magnificent downland walk visits a legendary chalk figure which has baffled archaeologists and historians for hundreds of years.

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Arlington's lakeside trail

Arlington

Difficulty - Easy

Combine this delightful walk with a little birding as you explore the banks of a reservoir by the Cuckmere River.

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Downland views over Firle

West Firle

Difficulty - Medium

Climb high about a sprawling estate and look towards distant horizons on this superb downland walk.

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By the Bluebell Railway at Horsted Keynes

Horsted Keynes

Difficulty - Easy

Recapture the golden age of steam from a classic Wealden village on this fascinating walk beside the Bluebell Railway.

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Around Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest

Difficulty - Medium

Exploring the haunts of AA Milne's much-loved character, Winnie-the-Pooh

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On Ditchling's downs

Ditchling

Difficulty - Hard

A bracing walk exploring some of the best scenery on the South Downs.

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A Brighton stroll

Brighton

Difficulty - Easy

A fascinating and diverse trail around one of England's newest cities

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The Villages Around Rottingdean

Rottingdean

Difficulty - Medium

Visit a picturesque village famous for its artistic and literary associations on this exhilarating coastal and downland walk.

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Neolithic downlands around Jevington

Jevington

Difficulty - Medium

A bracing downland walk, to a partly Anglo-Saxon church and New Stone Age earthworks.

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Rodmell and Virginia Woolf

Rodmell & Southease

Difficulty - Easy

Where the River Ouse cuts through the Downs, through two beautiful villages with important literary associations.

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Barcombe Mills

Difficulty - Easy

Walk amid echoes of long gone watermills and along the banks of the winding River Ouse.

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Forest Row and Ashdown Forest

Forest Row

Difficulty - Easy

Explore the village of Forest Row, walk an old railway line and see a splendid 17th-century ruined mansion.

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On the South Downs Way to Blackcap

Lewes

Difficulty - Hard

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Firle Tower and Beyond

Firle

Difficulty - Hard

A walk from the centre of Firle village past Firle Beacon and Charleston Farmhouse