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Does anyone happen to know the percentage of bridleway along the South Downs Way? I know there are a number of road sections. Bit of an anal question I know, but there is a sound reason behind my request.
Be grateful for any info, cheers!
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I seem to remember it all being bridleway. Its a big wide offroad path.
I road half of it last weekend and there are some small linking road sections, albeit very minor or farm access roads etc. I'm writing a feature on the SDW for a magazine and have been asked to give the percentage bridleway; can't find a definitive answer anywhere
I see.... Sorry not really sure.
96.3%
I feel "all of it" was close enough..
this is a great source os info on the sdw;
[url= http://www.bikedowns.co.uk/ ]http://www.bikedowns.co.uk/[/url]
cheers wwaswas - that seems a helpful resource
thanks for trying tinsy; alas still no conclusive answer though…
Measure it on google earth? There's a road section at Southease and Eastbourne end has been updated now.
Think I have a book at home which says that. I'd say it's less than 96% though as there are long sections on way to Winchester with road.
Having just been out for a ride which included Southease to Alfriston I can confirm that it is 100% sheep shit.
It must be all this rain which has led to such lush grass which the most stupid creatures ever to walk the earth are busy converting to very wet shit.
Sorry, my link had not worked too well. This is the info I was trying to show.
Website: Southdowns/Location: Southern England.
Length:: 160km (100 miles) (bridleway route is 8km (5 miles) shorter).
Average number of days to complete:: 8 walking, 3 cycling.
Users:: 100% for walkers, horse riders and cyclists except at Alfriston / Eastbourne and the Meon Valley where there are split bridleway and footpath routes.
Highest point:: Ditchling Beacon 248m (814ft).
Start point: The Youth Hostel at City Mill, Water Lane, Winchester.
Finish point: The Western End of Eastbourne Promenade.
Landscape:: Wide grassy or flinty tracks on chalk downland, grazed by sheep on the hills with arable crops below. 100% within Sussex Downs and East Hampshire designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The western part of the downs is rolling farmland, the West Sussex Downs are dominated by a steep, often wooded scarp with views across the Weald below, while the East Sussex Downs are classic open grassland running down to the sea cliffs.
Highlights: Winchester Cathedral, Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Parham Deer Park, Chanctonbury Ring, dew ponds, Adur Valley, Devil's Dyke, Ditchling Beacon, neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age monuments, Long Man of Wilmington, Ouse valley, Cuckmere Haven, Seven Sisters, Beachy Head, blue butterflies.
Famous Associations: Writer Virginia Woolf (lived at Rodmell), painter Vanessa Bell (Berwick Church), Lytton Strachey (biographer), painter Duncan Grant (Charleston farm house), author Tom Paine (Lewes), Yeats and Whistler (Steyning), Kipling (Rottingdean), Belloc, Jeffries, and now Andy Goldsworthy’s chalk stones!
Trail Officer's favourite part: Seven Sisters and the Cuckmere Valley, a glimpse of an older, wilder England.
Nearest Towns: Eastbourne, Winchester and Alfriston are on the route. Steyning (1km (½ mile)), Storrington (1½ km (1mile)), Pulborough (13km(8miles)), Midhurst (6km (2 miles)), Petersfield 6km (4miles)), Newhaven (5km (3miles)), Lewes (6km (4 miles)), Portsmouth (19km (12 miles)), Alton (24km (15 miles)), Brighton (11km (7miles)), Shoreham (6km (4miles)), Worthing 6km (4 miles)).
Access: London Victoria to Eastbourne trains take 90 minutes, Trains to Lewes from London take 50 minutes. Change at Lewes for Newhaven (10 minutes), Seaford (15 minutes) and Southease. London Victoria to Brighton is 50 minutes by train via Hassocks. London Waterloo to Winchester is 60 minutes. There are good local bus services in places (eg the South Downs Conservation Board “Breeze up to the Downs” promotions, Devils Dyke open top bus to Brighton, and buses from Brighton to Eastbourne via Alfriston and Beachy Head).
There is more metalled road to the West, but not much to the East (this doesn't help does it)
Presumably even if its road it can still be a 'Bridle Way' cant it??
When it turns to a road it becomes a byway rather than bridleway
what do you mean "still no conclusive answer" How many decimal points do you want?
I suspect he thought you had made up the figure.
tbh, even if you had saying it with conviction will make it true anyway.
@ avdave2 - 😆 I know exactly what you mean, too much to dodge on the flinty section, was covered in it, in my mouth, urgh.