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Burton Park walk on 1st April 2024

Jay and Lindsey had organized the walkers to convene at the Cricketers to place their food orders before heading off. 

The first stop was Duncton Mill Fishery and its 4 fishing lakes. The nursery lake was stocked with Trout and recent scrub clearance gave us a good view of the old water wheel. From the fishery we headed up to Fountain Copse and made our way to Burton Park with its 19th century Greek inspired country house and Norman church. Burton Park Estate, which dates from the 13th Century and the Grade 1 listed mansion has a chequered history. Once home to a Baronet, then an MP, it became an Army Camp, a girls school, a police dog-training centre and is now split into flats. Then it was onwards to Burton Mill and Burton Mill pond where we stopped for coffee before completing a loop of the pond and heading back via the West Sussex Literary Trail to the Cricketers where we enjoyed a nice lunch. 

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East Dean walk on 25th March 2026

Despite some rain early in the morning, no rain fell on Jennifer's walkers as they climbed up and down around the Charlton Forest and Eastdean Woods.  After gathering together at the Star and Garter and placing our food orders, we walked past All Saints Church and headed uphill towards Court Hill. After a short diversion into Wood Lea we emerged taking the footpath down North Down. It wasn't all that easy to follow as a tractor was busy chewing up the whole hillside but we found our way eventually down into North Lane and up to our coffee stop at the base of Wood Lea. When sufficiently refreshed we climbed up into Wood Lea and turned north along the West Sussex Literary Trail. This trail from Horsham to Chichester lets you walk in the footsteps of Shelley, Belloc, Blake, Keats and Galsworthy but is not guaranteed to improve your English!  After 1/2 a mile we turned sharply south and headed back to the Star and Garter for a very welcome lunch. The walk was about 5.3 miles

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Graffham walk on 18th March 2024

Sally and Robert enticed a good size group for their 4.2 mile walk in the balmy sunshine.  We made our way from the National Trust Car park across Lavington Common onto Duncton Common through woodland and heath on the Serpent Trail.  Leaving the trail to head north west on the footpath closer to the River Rother where the rainwater saturation of the soil over the past two months necessitated us making local diversions to keep our feet dry.  Skirting fields we came to the track leading to Fitzlea Farm and the bridleway into Fitzlea Wood where we stopped for our coffee break.  Crossing the Selham to Heath End road we continued the gentle climb onto Graffham Common with a steeper climb to reach the Serpent Trail again.  On reaching Gallows Hill, we thought the miscreants probably had  other things occupying their mind than the scenic views as we wandered past Bronze Age barrows (dating back to the period 2400-1500 BC), down the hill to the road at Barnett’s Bridge.  Reaching Lavington Common, the path was very muddy until we got to the sandy elevated section and back to the car park.  We drove around the corner to the Badgers pub for a lovely lunch.

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Grayshott Walk on 11th March 2026

Tim and Jane assembled us in The Fox and Pelican car park in Grayshott for our 4.5 mile walk in dry but cloudy weather.  We started towards Whitmore Vale Road passing the WWII building that housed the Air Raid Wardens and the historic Primary School before taking a footpath on the left through a housing estate and along the top of Whitmoor Bottom.  A southerly footpath took us through another estate, across Headley Road onto Ludshott Common along the old roads that formed the WWII Canadian Superior Camp.  We headed across the Common where trees have grown since the tank training had flattened them all 80 years ago, over Summerden Footbridge where we stopped for coffee beside one of the Waggoners Wells lakes.  Following the south bank of the ponds we entered the wooded valley before climbing back up Headley Road and to The Fox and Pelican where we all enjoyed an excellent lunch.

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Easebourne walk on 4th March 2026

Isabel lead our 4.5 mile walk from Cowdray Café across the road onto The Race for a short time before cutting across to Easebourne Street and into Glaziers Lane, passing the cemetery to pick up the pathway to the right that led between the fields. A shallow hill brought us to the remains of Wick Lane where we encountered a fallen tree.  Magically Tim produced an assortment of tools from his rucksack to clear a route through with other members demonstrating their forestry skills.  Entering Whitters Copse we stopped for our coffee break at the picnic hut, availing ourselves of the long benches under the cloudy sky.  Carrying on up the hill to a lane, we turned right enjoying a short lived downhill section, crossed Easebourne Street again rising into the woodland of Grevatt’s Common.  Reaching the farm buildings at Gravatts we turned south between fields, past the reservoir at Lower Vinning taking the lane back to Easebourne Street down past the old Holly Tree pub (that is no longer a liquid refreshment establishment!) and back to the Cowdray Café car park.  An excellent lunch was then procured at The Royal Oak.

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