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Book 3 will be published on 14th April 2012
Updates for Book 1
• In Lewes, the Priory (page 7) has been completely re-vamped but it is very clear how you walk through the grounds and should not cause any confusion. • As you leave Barcombe Cross (bottom of page 14 and top of page 15) the footpath across the field that is described as “very indistinct” is often, in reality, impossible to make out at all. This makes finding the opposite corner of the field quite difficult. If in doubt, turn right and follow that path for about 200m to the hedge at the edge of the field. Turn left and walk with the hedge on your right for about 100m to the corner of the field. The finger post has gone and the gap in the hedge through which the path goes is hard to see. Being careful to avoid the large rabbit-hole, drop down the bank and find the stile with the footbridge beyond. • The path between Markstakes Lane and Cinder Hill has been subject to a few alterations since the guide was printed. (Top of lower map to bottom of upper map on page 17). The farmer has acquired some llamas which are kept in new enclosures which affect the route slightly. Also, the path now goes to the right of the tennis court not to the left as directed. In the middle of page 16, after turning right down the footpath between hedges, the directions should now be - Cross a footbridge and stile and follow path right. Keep ahead through trees, with the tennis court on your left. Cross stile into field, follow path left along fence and then diagonally right to find a double stile out of the corner of the field. Bear slightly left across the field, to find stile in fence opposite. Cross stile and stream and continue on the same heading with a (new) fence on your right. Enter the woods, cross plank over ditch and follow the fairly clear path to find a bridge over a stream. Leave the wood through the gate and keep ahead across field to what looks like a gate in a fence line, in the middle of the field. (Last time we walked here, the grass was so long that it was easier to walk round the edge of the field to the left.) It is a kiss gate, which you go through to follow a path between fences. After a second kiss gate, stay on path ahead to leave the field over stile into the garden of the house on your right. • The area around the Meridian Marker at Lane End Common has been cleared and the path has been re-instated. The whole Common has been surrounded by a wire fence so as to allow grazing by sheep in order to keep down the scrub. The directions on page 19 and the top of page 20 should now be - At the road turn left, away from Newick, cross bridge over the deep cutting of the old railway line and turn right then, after a few metres, turn left through a gate into woodland. Follow the path ahead, under power lines, for 100m then follow path as it bears right. After 30m a path from the car park joins from the left. Keep ahead for another 30m to an open crossing of grassy tracks. (To find the Meridian Marker, turn right and go along path for about 40m.) Turn left and walk for 50m to where the power lines cross. Just before going under the power lines, turn right through trees along grassy path. Drop down gently and after 100m, as path turns right, keep ahead along narrower path that soon bears left towards trees and becomes less distinct. Walk through the trees to come out onto the busy A275 at a small lay-by. • In the middle of page 26, the directions tell you to “Climb gently then steadily through the trees for about 200m …”. That should be “about 400m”. Oops. • On the same page, the sign telling you that it is Goat Car Park has disappeared. If you have managed to follow the directions, you will be in the right place. • At the bottom of page 27, the entrance to the “narrow path into the woods ahead” is only about 50m beyond the bench by the tree. This is right on the join between the top of the map on page 27 and the bottom of the map on page 28. Most unhelpful of us! Sorry. • We have been alerted to the fact that the orange coloured stream on page 28 is no longer very orange. We have just checked that out and it is, indeed, much less orange than when we first walked by it five years ago. Maybe it has something to do with the dry weather, but the stream is now hardly orange at all. • On the same page, the bridge at (2) which used to go over the (now not very orange) stream, has been removed and the water now flows through a large pipe covered by earth. • On page 38, our attention has been drawn, by the Marshall family, to a path that runs from the entrance to Lingfield Race Course and the railway station. The entrance to the path is directly opposite the entrance to the course and there is a set of lights to help you cross the road safely! Follow the path all the way to the front of the train station then turn left, walk on the left-hand pavement to the road and cross directly into the footpath that leads you to the Star Inn. This is much more pleasant than walking on the road. We are not sure how we missed it. • We are indebted to Elyot Turner for pointing out that in the description of Lingfield on page 38 we should have attributed the praise for the period buildings close to the church to Ian Nairn, not Nikolaus Pevsner. • At the very top of page 40, a clearer way of writing the first sentence is – Cross stile by gate into next field and climb gently up left edge of field to leave over stile on your left in the corner of the field. For your information, there is, in fact, a slight gap between the top of the map on page 39 and the bottom of the map on page 41. This was done in order to squeeze the maps into the available space in the guidebook. • On page 50, “Fair Hilds Avenue” is in fact “Fairchilds Avenue”. Oops again.
Updates for Book 2
• At the very top of page 32, the track going right at Swades Farm is not immediately obvious. This is mostly because the sign for Swades Farm is small and insignificant. Much more obvious, is the new entrance to Newhole Farm, on the right. The track you want is just beyond. • At the top of page 36, please note that The Chequers Inn at Wareside no longer provides accommodation. • They have changed the signposting for paths and bridleways in this part of the world, so they may not agree with the book. For example, as you leave Braughing (top of page 38) the name on the sign is no longer “Bozen Green”. • Just north of Wyddial (directions in the middle of page 42) the farmer who owns the field to the east of Capons Wood rarely bothers to re-instate the footpath across the field. The finger post points across the field in the direction marked by the yellow route line in the lower map on page 43 and this agrees with the only time we have found a reasonably clear path. This differs from the dog-leg marked on the OS map. The last time we walked there the crop was so high and dense it would have been most unpleasant to force our way through. It was much more sensible to follow the gap between the plants, heading more or less north-west. On reaching the edge of the field we turned right and followed the stream on the left, heading due north, to re-join the route. • On page 44, just above the picture, the entrance to the path that passes round the house (The Grange on the map) has been moved. After turning right, you will see the new entrance, on your left, after only 10 or 20m. Go through and follow the path round the house. • On page 52, a walker has reported a problem with directions given on lines 5 and 6. Having crossed the stile under the electricity pole, he turned left as directed but subsequently realised that he should have gone “straight ahead across the field and only turned left once on the far side”. We cannot explain this. We suspect that the stile has been moved so that it now faces ‘left’, as it were. Until we can get up there to sort it out, all we can say is be careful and use your compass if needs be.
Latest updates – March 2012
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