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Duncton walk on 2nd September 2026

After almost trouble free parking at The Badger Inn, we jumped into shared cars to go to our parking start point on Duncton Down for Jennifer's walk. Leaving the car park we walked up and along Woolavington Down, eventually crossing the West Sussex Literary Trail/Southdowns Way to head into the woods of Teaglaze where we were fortunate to find a pleasantly wooded picnic spot. As we relaxed and took on refreshments, a shower tried to spoil our walk, but we were able to ignore it. The forecast had been fairly damp but we suffered very little all morning. A stroll up towards Waltham Down brought us to our turning point where we headed back towards the car park. This involved walking through Crown Teaglaze and finding the West Sussex Literary Trail once again. This spot is one of the highest points on the Southdowns Way. This time we followed the West Sussex Literary Trial, only departing from it to reach our parked cars. A quick trip down the road and we then had an excellent lunch in the Badger.

All ready to go.

Climbing up - past a WW2 shelter?

A lot of woodland seemed to have been changed to chips - we found the culprit eventually

Probably chicken-in-the -woods - so called as it looks like cooked chicken!

Some wonderful views - this is Burton Park

Nice spot - but then it tried to rain

That sun tan lotion may not be needed today

Marching through Tegleaze

Different styles for rainy days?

A high spot on the Literary trail

with a sign to guide walkers on their way

although some just prefer to sit

Down the road to the chalk pit

Nearly there- and one of the few yew trees around

Great food about to be served up!

About 5.2 miles

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