폴게이트 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

This is the starting point for the magnificent trail across the South Downs! I hiked it myself and still fondly remember it after many years!

Impressive cliffs rising perpendicularly from the sea. The name "Seven Sisters" is said to have been used by sailors in the past.

This was our final stage of the South Downs Way (Bo Peep to Eastbourne) and the second of a two day hike. The Seven Sisters followed by Beachy Head is pretty brutal.

I can recommend visiting the Long Man of Wilmington (it isn't an ancient Fertility symbol more an artificial 17th century tourist attraction, more fool, the faux American witches I saw there several years ago). However I can't recommend leaving the Long Man pub down the road, at 7.30pm, in January, several days after it snowed and then several days of negative temperatures froze it in place, and then climb straight up past it. There is a path but we decided that would take far too long to divert to it. It was not surprisingly steep.

From here, just off Beachy Head Road, you are either at the start or coming to the finish of the South Downs Way, depending on which direction you started from. Here you have views north across towards Eastbourne, whilst behind you are the famed cliffs of Beachy Head, and of course to the east, sublime views out over the English Channel.

This coastal landscape with its white cliffs is spectacular. Many people know that. Therefore, it is better to avoid visiting on weekends.

Above the visitor center you have a beautiful view of the chalk cliffs.

Great views of the lighthouse below. However, the cliff edge is completely unsecured and you should have a certain respect for heights. As a father of three children with unfortunately only two arms, you can start to sweat a bit. But there is an ice cream van in the car park: the only place in England where we had to pay with cash.