Route
The undulating path begins in Winchester and moves past Cheesefoot Head, the towns of Petersfield and Arundel, the town of Steyning, Devil's Dyke viewpoint near Brighton, followed by Ditchling Beacon and miles of chalk downland across to Beachy Head, and finally ending in Eastbourne.
Several youth hostels are along the route to accommodate walkers. It also passes Birling Gap, a beach area with hotel and restaurant. The opportunity to swim here is irresistible to a perspiring rambler, despite the pebble beach.
At Rodmell on the trail, Virginia Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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