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High Salvington Windmill

Built around 1700 overlooking Worthing and down into the Findon valley. It is being refurbished with some appropriate outbuildings with some funds from the National Lottery; see, all that money sometime comes to support local venture. The mill is open in the afternoon from April to September on the first and third Sunday of the month.

If you are interested in windmills visit The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills http://www.spoom.org/w

 

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Cissbury Ring

Cissbury Ring

On the top of the hill to the east of Findon is Cissbury Ring, a hill fort of about 18 acres, surrounded by a rampart and deep ditch which almost exactly a mile to walk round.

A trumph of celtic engineering, built at about 477 AD, and named after Cissa, King of Sussex crowned in 514, conquered by King Caelwin the West Saxon in 584. It is one of a line of such forts stretching from Kent through to Dorset. When built it also had a 15 foot high timber defense wall.

The views from the top are spectacular. You can park in the signposted carpark off the A24 south of Findon and walk up across the fields, or drive up through Findon village to a small carpark just to the north of the Ring.

 

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Sign on the A27 main road
near Fontwell Park racecourse

No racing by
horse drawn
vehicles

 
Chanctonbury Ring
A grove of trees planted in 1760 and largely blown down in the storm of 1987. On the site of an iron-age hill fort on top of the hill above Washington. It even had a small Roman temple in the centre. According to the legends there are ghosts; Roman soldiers, thudding hooves as invisible horsemen ride by, and a white-bearded Druid searching for something he forgot a thousand years ago.

If you are really looking for trouble, walk backwards round the ring at midnight on Midsummer Eve. The devil will appear and offer you a bowl of porridge. If you eat it he will take your soul.

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Chanctonbury Ring is said to lie on a Ley Line between the Devils Dyke at Poynings to the East, and Barnsfarm Hill to the West of Washington. What are Ley Lines? It is said that many iron-age and such sites can be connected with straight lines of mystic power. They are certainly not recommended as the best walking route as they take no account of woods, swamps, and the crossing of rivers.

 

Downslink Path

The Downslink path runs from Shoreham to Guildford along the route of the disused railway line. The path is bit dull, better on a bicycle than on foot. The bank of the Adur for the first few miles is more fun.

But every mile or so along the Downslink path, from the old wooden toll bridge at Shoreham, is a wooden statue forming a convenient seat to have a little rest.

The eight foot tall bird is near the toll bridge. The filleted fish is north of the A27 overpass. The wooden train is near the old quarries. Excellent.

 

    
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