Belligerent bulls, Second World War artefacts, wonderful woodlands, an awesome ancient yew, all under changeable skies in the Surrey countryside Oxted to Lingfield, Surrey This part of southern England is perhaps not high on the list of most people’s walking hotspots. But it’s pleasant walking country, gently rolling and bordered to the north by the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘weald’
Sunshine and showers and a Great British Tree
Posted in surrey, walks, tagged air raid shelter, ancient yew, crowhurst, crowhurst yew, greensand ridge, limpsfield, lingfield, oxted, river eden, spigot mortar, surrey, weald on July 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Viaducts and valleys
Posted in sussex, walks, tagged ardingly, ardingly reservoir, balcombe, deer, high weald landscape trail, ouse valley viaduct, sandstone, sussex ouse valley way, wakehurst place, weald on March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Amazing engineering, both man-made and biomechanical, in the Weald. Balcombe and Ardingly, West Sussex A forecast for a sunny day (well, they got it half right) sees me heading down the Brighton line to West Sussex for another wander in the Weald. The purpose of this walk was largely to take a closer look at a [...]
More wanderings in the Weald
Posted in kent, walks, tagged chiddingstone, cowden, kent, penshurst, sidney oak, weald on August 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Woodlands, meadows, picturesque villages, historic churches, a stately home, and one of 50 Great British Trees – quintessential British countryside Cowden to Chiddingstone Causeway, Kent A return to the Weald, one of my favourite parts of south east England. As described in a previous post, it’s an area of beautiful woodlands and undulating hills, gentle [...]
A wander in the Weald
Posted in kent, sussex, walks, tagged coppice, hop growing, kent, oast house, pillboxes, sussex, weald on April 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »
A lesson in landscape history Ashurst to Eridge, Kent/Sussex border I love the Weald, this being the area of sandstone hills between the chalk of the North Downs and the South Downs exposed by erosion of the overlying chalk and greensand layers. Here’s a quick geology lesson, pay attention at the back: Got that? Good. [...]
