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From Beachy Head to Winchester, we share stories, photographs and our experience from the stunning South Downs. And did we mention our rather gorgeous book? lovethesouthdowns.org.uk

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Autumn used to make me sad but I have come to love its melancholy beauty. May we all find such happiness on a misty morning.

02.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A glimpse of the downs from the Ashdown Forest tonight

24.09.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Autumn Equinox, friends 🍂

22.09.2025 12:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you're out and about today, go well.
I'm stuck at my desk and wishing I was here.

16.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Firle is busy for a school night 🌗

07.09.2025 19:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Firle Beacon waiting for the moon 🌝

07.09.2025 18:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re up a hill

31.08.2025 17:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome to the weekend 🧡

I hope you find the sun and a secluded spot to some spend time with the barrows and blossoms.

29.08.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The calm before the storm

26.08.2025 17:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another glorious day for those who are a-wandering.

25.08.2025 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love this late-summer feel. Hope, nostalgia, a sense of time passing and the need to make the most of every moment 💚

24.08.2025 09:20 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How was your weekend?

We took an evening stroll on the downs, spotted some orchids, a red kite and a hare, and sat down with some baby grasshoppers for a picnic.
10/10

02.06.2025 07:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We love a tapsel gate into a churchyard.

Unique to Sussex, and there are just a handful, they allow a coffin to be passed over the top.

20.05.2025 09:16 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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There comes a time in your life when you really start to appreciate a motte and bailey castle. Have you reached it yet?

This stunner is between Truleigh Hill and Devil's Dyke.

07.05.2025 08:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A horse chestnut tree in glorious full flower with a rich blue sky behind it.

A horse chestnut tree in glorious full flower with a rich blue sky behind it.

Happy Beltane, friends

May this surge of energy from the earth put a spring in your step 💚

01.05.2025 08:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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💙🤍💙

30.04.2025 16:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of the hidden gems of the downs ... the Chattri Memorial 💙

24.04.2025 09:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mine was four days long and still I needed three more 😂

22.04.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Morning all, how was your long weekend?

22.04.2025 07:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Is there anything more April than gorgeous blossoms against moody skies?

18.04.2025 10:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Give them a wave from us!

18.04.2025 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A gothic castle-style railway tunnel running underneath the downs.

A gothic castle-style railway tunnel running underneath the downs.

The tunnel at Clayton is a sight to behold.

They don't make 'em like that any more.

17.04.2025 08:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Bluebells in a sunny woodland with a small animal track running through them

Bluebells in a sunny woodland with a small animal track running through them

It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

14.04.2025 08:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sunrise at Devil's Dyke 🧡

11.04.2025 08:24 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A rusty metal rooster with the year 1734 carved out of it stands on top of a post amid woodlands

A rusty metal rooster with the year 1734 carved out of it stands on top of a post amid woodlands

Outside Ditching is this curiosity... Jacob's Post. It marks the spot where a pedlar was hanged in 1734 after stealing a coat from the landlord of an inn, then slashing his throat before fleeing. Sadly, the Royal Oak closed in 2009 but the post and the story live on.
#DarkSussex

10.04.2025 07:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Morning 👋💙

09.04.2025 08:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At Houghton in late summer

24.01.2025 15:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hello 👋

24.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A frosty Cuckmere

08.01.2025 14:15 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Beautiful!

04.01.2025 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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