Beating the Bounds
BURGESS HILL AND BACK VIA BEDELANDS FARM NATURE RESERVE, WORLD'S END, WIVELSFIELD AND DITCHLING This was a walk that consolidated some previous trials of a route for the Lost Woods but still a bit unsure whether it's too unwieldy. In my mind, the full walk is a cohesive theme of old settlement and Common land. It's one I return to because today's landscape and walking reflect the boundaries and walkways that I find myself modernly tramping. This appears to be the pattern of development here in these parts of the Low Weald, with Burgess Hill as a town, a relatively new incarnation in quite an old history of manorial lands and ancient farmsteads. The project demands attention to big old trees and woodland and we're not left wanting because they are in abundance. Many a path is punctuated with prime specimens and these, in turn, often coincide with parish boundaries. This is not chance, as some planting would have been a clear visual indicator of land ownership in d...
