Ebernoe Common
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"Stroll through centuries of fascinating landscape history now being restored by the enterprising Sussex Wildlife Trust."
Walk directions
From the car park head down the track to the left of the churchyard and a Sussex Wildlife Trust sign. Continue along the track, passing through a gate beside a cattle grid to continue ahead (not right), through old hazel coppicing amid the oak, beech and ash trees. You pass a brick kiln, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and cross a causeway past a pond. The path ascends again. At a fork bear left. The ground levels and continues to a gate by another cattle grid. Through this continue on the path, and where a grassy area appears on the right, enter it to emerge from the wooded common.
Continue across the grass, a farmhouse with a large pond in its garden to your left. Go along the edge of the woods, on a wide grass strip. Where the hedge goes left continue ahead into the wood and wind through the wood. Bear right along a lane.
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Additional information
Terrain
- Woodland paths and tracks, field paths and tracks
Landscape
- Heath and wood and former iron industry hammer ponds
Dog friendliness
- Cattle have been introduced to graze part of the common
Parking
- Car park by Ebernoe parish church
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
In 1980 the Sussex Wildlife Trust bought 185 acres (75ha) of Ebernoe Common, where woodland was under threat. It now owns more, much of which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The Trust has a very carefully thought-out management plan to return the common back to wood pasture and...
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About the area
Divided from East Sussex back in 1888, West Sussex has a variety of landscapes and coastal scenery, but it is the spacious and open South Downs with which the county is most closely associated. There are plenty of walking routes in the South Downs National Park, cycling routes by the sea or visitors can explore the pretty town of Arundel with its historic castle and buildings.
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