Lost Steam
UCKFIELD TO SHEFFIELD PARK STATION VIA LAKE WOOD, PILTDOWN GOLF CLUB, FLETCHING AND SHEFFIELD PARK First hat day of the season. Vague idea of walking from Uckfield, getting the Autumn clich é of the colours at Sheffield Park and then looping back somehow. Not feeling hundred percent and had spent Thursday largely in bed. A frosty start and blue skies meant that the day was relatively kind to me. In eventuality, an unexpected steam train forced my hand beyond the Park, or rather, my feet and I returned via East Grinstead. It's still a 10 miler but all is relatively flat and as much as I could take. Uckfield can be reached in under an hour with the pairing of the 271 to the Princess Royal Hospital and a quick switch to the 31. You can do this or take a train to Haywards Heath and the same 31 bus from near the station. A return, naturally, would be dependent on where you end up. I number of less accessible options are open which is why East Grinstead was as good as any on this route
