Balcombe
11 members and 3 guests were very happy to set out from Balcombe on a breezy late summer's day -perfect weather for walking-
A lovely walk through the West Sussex countryside with good extensive views and an opportunity to see beautiful country houses, horses and harvesting
The walk took us along Nyman's gardens outskirts and lakes and ducks Sorry Martin I failed to get enthusiastic about the ducks!!!!
Well catered for in the pub and the forecast shower was short, arrival at the station well timed with a good game of bridge on the return journey and nobody lost so all in all a very good day Thank you Martin
Train - Out from Victoria to Balcombe, leaving 9. 27 and arriving 10.17; return by the 16.30 arriving Victoria at 17.15.
Car - The turn into the station car park is on the right if driving south on the B2036 just after the station and the bridge over the railway. There is a £1 charge on Sundays.
This is a circular walk in the High Weald, the heavily wooded world one looks down on when coming in to Gatwick from the south - a landscape of sandstone ridges running east to west, cut in to by deep valleys or gills. Its essential character was established by the 14th century and it is considered to be one of the best surviving coherent medieval landscapes of Northern Europe. In the morning we will be walking westwards to the woods below Nymans then south to Stapleford for lunch; and in the afternoon eastwards along the valley of the Sussex Ouse then northwards back to Balcombe.
The Victory Inn at Stapleford with a very good range of pub food