Wealden Walks

A Grave State of Affairs

7 Miles

4 Hours

Start: Wadhurst Church, Church Street, Wadhurst, TN5 6AR, NGR 641318

Memorial inscriptions forged by illiterate craftsmen on iron graveslabs line the floor of Wadhurst Church. The network of footpaths linking the many hamlets of the parish provides a further memorial to the former inhabitants, who ...

Canute and a Certain Little Woodland Pasture

4 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Wadhurst Church, Church Street, Wadhurst, TN5 6AR, NGR 641318.

The popular history of the High Weald has often included references to the supposedly sparsely populated, impenetrable woodland known as the Andredsweald which remained unsettled for centuries. However, this walk explores an area which was ...

A walk of mysteries

4.5 Miles

3 Hours

Start: West Park Nature Reserve, Princes Close, Batchelor Way, Uckfield, TN22 2BT.

Tiny flint tools, thousand of years old, a 150 year old railway which has never carried a train, a skeleton of our very earliest ancestor - the “missing link” between man and ape - dated ...

Non transports of delight

3 Miles

2 Hours

Start: West Park Nature Reserve, Princes Close, Batchelor Way, Uckfield, TN22 2BT

A short, very rural walk passing a surprisingly large variety of transport routes, some predictable such as rivers and roads and others less so such as Navigations and a ghost railway which never managed to ...

The flooded valley

4 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Forest Row Village Hall, Lewes Rd, Forest Row, RH18 5ES.

A walk to Brambletye, the forerunner of Forest Row with a churchless priest, several manor houses and an impressive ruin by the River Medway. However, the river itself is almost a stream today, due to ...

The ruin by the medway

2.5 Miles

1.5 Hours

Start: Forest Row Village Hall, Lewes Road, Forest Row, RH18 5ES

A walk to Brambletye, the forerunner of Forest Row, with a churchless priest, several manor houses and an impressive ruin by the River Medway. A walk worthy of investigation by the great Sherlock Holmes himself.Route ...

Did I leave the Iron on

4 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Wadhurst Church, Church Street, Wadhurst, TN5 6AR.

Memorial inscriptions forged by illiterate craftsmen on iron gravestones line the floor of Wadhurst Church. This walk links the product of the ironworks in the church to the site of one of the works and ...

Squatters and Chapels

4 Miles

2.5 Hours

Start: Village Green, Marklye Lane, Rushlake Green, TN21 9QD

The Sussex iron industry, which had been a technological marvel in the late 1400s, was obsolete by the 1700s. At Ironbridge in Shropshire, iron was made successfully using coal rather than charcoal in 1709, leading ...