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Great view – Lewes Priory Loop from Lewes

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Great view – Lewes Priory Loop from Lewes

Jordan De Souza planned a hike

December 18, 2021

Great view – Lewes Priory Loop from Lewes

Moderate

04:22

16.2km

3.7km/h

200m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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2.83 km

Ashcombe Windmill

Highlight • Monument

Ashcombe Windmill was restored in 2007 after being destroyed in a storm in 1916, but its owner James Tasker. The six sails are known as 'sweeps' in Sussex.

The windmill …

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4.81 km

View of the South Downs from the Ridge

Highlight • Natural Monument

4.96 km

View of Lewes and the Ouse Valley

Highlight • Natural Monument

The escarpment here and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The steeply sloping chalk grassland is rich in minibeasts, such as Adonis Blue and Small Blue butterflies, and the …

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6.07 km

Concrete section of the South Downs Way at Iford Hill

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Whilst concrete isn't the best for walking on, when we walked this section of the South Downs Way we were flanked either side by bright yellow oil seed rape fields (May 2022) which increased its beauty remarkably.

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8.70 km

View of the South Downs and Lewes

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Lovely bucolic scene of countryside and Lewes in the distance from this point in the South Downs.

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15.8 km

Lewes Priory Ruins

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Lewes Priory is the ruins of a Cluniac priory that was built around 1081 and demolished around 1537. There are loads of little information boards that tell you about the …

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16.2 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

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6.24 km

4.46 km

2.72 km

1.04 km

887 m

879 m

Surfaces

5.94 km

4.28 km

4.04 km

1.96 km

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Great view – Lewes Priory Loop from Lewes

Ashcombe Windmill

View of the South Downs from the Ridge

View of Lewes and the Ouse Valley

Concrete section of the South Downs Way at Iford Hill

View of the South Downs and Lewes

Lewes Priory Ruins

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