Welcome to Capital Walkers, the friendly London Ramblers group for people aged 40+. We walk every weekend and usually at least once during the week.
Guillermo R.
The High Weald Landscape Trail offers a captivating journey through the counties of West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent. Spanning 95 miles, this scenic trail meanders through the stunning High Weald, one of England's finest landscapes. The term "Weald" refers to wilderness or forest, and the High Weald remains a lush, diverse mix of woodlands, grasslands, heathlands, meadows, hop gardens, orchards, and hammer ponds. Designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), it is a quintessentially English landscape.
The High Weald Landscape Trail is divided into five sections. Section one will be from Horsham to Haywards Heath via Cuckfield and could best be described as undulating. The western-most section of the Trail underwrites Sussex’s claim to be the most wooded county in England. In St Leonard’s Forest you pass from cool valley woodlands with small streams and hammer ponds to exhilarating ridge-top views. The gentler slopes of the Ouse Valley are more open farmland. We will have a lunch in the charming village of Slaugham, please bring a packed lunch. While the path goes through some small villages, for the most part you are unaware of the considerable population hidden away in this stretch of countryside so close to major transport routes.
Toilets available at the Horsham railway station.
There are not exit points.
We will be walking the following sections of the High Weald Landscape trail on the 26th April, 24th May, 28th June and the final one over the weekend of 26th July finalising it at Rye (Kent).
Travel:
Take the 9:35 train from London Victoria, (East Croydon at 9:53) arriving at Horsham at 10:27.
There are several direct trains from Haywards Heath back to London Victoria and London Blackfriars.
No booking required.
The finishing time is an estimate only and will be dependent on a number of factors such as, weather, the speed at which the group walks and the number of breaks taken.
Horsham Railway Station
Haywards Heath Railway Station
