Sussex (England) -- Description and travel; Sussex (England) -- History; Sussex (England) -- Pictorial works
For the last few miles of the journey there is a choice of ways: one may
turn to the right after Alfriston bridge and, going past Lullington
Court, take a lane which leads one straight to the village of Jevington,
thus cutting off the projecting corner and height of Winddower Hill, or
one may turn to the left after the bridge and go round over the top of
the ridge, and so down on to Jevington from the north. From Jevington a
short lane leads straight up on to the height of Willingdon Hill, and
thence it is a straight southerly line along the escarpment with a few
slight rises and falls until, just four miles on, one stands above the
precipice of Beachy Head where the Downs fall into the sea, and one’s
journey is ended. These four days, if they are spent in weather of
passible clearness, teach one the whole of that lonely and wonderful
belt of England, the landscape and character of which have built up the
county on either side to the north and south of hills.
It would, of course, be possible to devise many another journey by which
those who do not know the county might better appreciate somewhat of its
aspects. But these three of which we have spoken are the best in general
for an exploration of Sussex, unless one pleases to add a fourth of a
somewhat monotonous and truncated character, which would be to cover in
one day the coastal plain from Chichester to Brighton, and in another
the sea coast and the marshes from Eastbourne to Rye. The second section
of this is straightforward enough, taking one through Pevensey,
Hastings, and Winchelsea. As to the first, it is advisable not to follow
the main road through Arundel, but to go by lanes nearer the sea from
Chichester to Eastergate, thence to Yapton, and so on through
Littlehampton, West Ferring, Worthing, and along the sea coast to New
Shoreham. It is possible also to take either section right along its
beach. There is no interruption, but it would be a dreary and a
heart-breaking thing to do, and would leave upon a man a general
impression of red brick and boarding-houses, and esplanades and tin
bungalows, interrupted by intervals of tufted grass growing
[Illustration: WILLINGDON]
[Sidenote: THE SUSSEX SEA]
rank upon deserted sand-hills. Nay, even these are not all deserted, for
in places Londoners can be seen upon them playing golf.
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