South Downs Way: Rodmell to Alfriston
From Rodmell, the route follows the road south towards Newhaven, turning into Southease; a village with a green, some 17th-century cottages, and a round-towered Norman church, which has some 13th-century murals.
The route passes Southease railway station and then crosses the A26 by a footbridge, to connect with the chalk track up the side of Itford Hill near to Itford Farm. This track curves its way up the hillside to head east past Red Lion and White Lion ponds. These are dried-up dewponds, in an area where a complete Bronze Age farming settlement was discovered.
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