Queen Elizabeth Forest to Cocking
It's been a long, hot day but we survived! We started across the road from Butser Hill, walking upwards through Queen Elizabeth Forest and on to Harting Down, where we stopped for lunch. Here, we had panoramic views looking North over the Harting villages, most notably South Harting whose church has a distinctive green spire. My main blip shows the walk after lunch looking towards Beacon Hill. We went around it (to the right of my photo), and through wooded Philliswood Down, to emerge at five tumuli called the Devil's Jumps (see second extra).They were carefully positioned to be aligned with the sunset at the Summer Solstice (so we were just a day late!). We finished our walk descending into the village of Cocking, past the large chalk boulder, installed by Andy Goldsworthy about twenty years ago(see first extra) one in a series in his Chalk Stones Trail.
In total, we walked some 13 miles today, with 1830 feet of ascent and 1930 feet of descent.
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