Slow Sussex and the South Downs

Tim Locke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2011
Bradt Travel Guides (Verlag)
978-1-84162-343-6 (ISBN)

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Slow Sussex and South Downs National Park Travel Guide - Holiday tips and advice including Brighton and Winchester highlights, national parks, reserves and walks. This guide also features Hampshire and Lewes Downs, coastal activities and routes, suggested itineraries, characterful accommodation and local food, Eastbourne, Hastings and High Weld.

Straddling the Hampshire Downs and the distinctive countryside of Sussex, the South Downs is Britain's newest and most visited national park, and is abutted by a long coastline and the surprisingly remote landscapes of the Weald. Slow-travel enthusiast and Sussex resident Tim Locke takes a close-up look at the best of the countryside and places in his back yard, and celebrates what makes the area so distinctive. This is not a book of dry practicalities. Locke's local knowledge leads the reader to his favourite walks, pubs and and places to stay, while his colourful interviews with local craftsmen and characters give visitors a personal acquaintance with the region. Sussex boasts a huge variety of landscapes and architecture, from the chalk South Downs to the salty marshes at Chichester Harbour. The ways of enjoying it are just as diverse, and could include foraging for fungi on the Wealden heaths, watching the unique Sussex pastime of stoolball, paragliding over the Downs or sampling a locally produced wine.

Tim Locke is a freelance travel writer with special expertise on England and Wales.

CONTENTS
GOING SLOW IN SUSSEX AND THE SOUTH DOWNS
NATIONAL PARK iv
1. WINCHESTER AND THE HAMPSHIRE DOWNS 1
Getting around 1, Accommodation 2, Winchester 4,
Into the Hampshire Downs 12
2. CHICHESTER HARBOUR TO THE ARUN 35
Getting around 36, Accommodation 38, Chichester Harbour and Chichester 40,
Sussex's westernmost Downs 54, The Rother Valley and the north 68,
Into the Low Weald around the upper Arun 81, The lower Arun Valley 83
3. BRIGHTON AND ITS HINTERLAND 97
Getting around 97, Accommodation 99, Worthing and the west 100,
Brighton and Hove 104, East of Brighton 121, Away from the coast 124
4. LEWES DOWNS TO BEACHY HEAD 137
Getting around 137, Accommodation 139, Lewes and the lower Ouse Valley 141,
From the Ouse to the Cuckmere 156, Cuckmere Valley: from Hailsham to the sea 166
5. THE EASTERN HIGH WEALD 185
Getting around 185, Accommodation 186, Wealden gardens and the Forest Ridge 188,
Ashdown Forest and around 204, Towards the Kent border 215
6. EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS AND 1066 COUNTRY 223
Getting around 223, Accommodation 224, The 1066 coast 226, Into the Weald 249
INDEX 256

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2011
Verlagsort	Buckinghamshire
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
ISBN-10	1-84162-343-1 / 1841623431
ISBN-13	978-1-84162-343-6 / 9781841623436
Zustand	Neuware