Leafy Underwhelm
CROSS IN HAND TO BATTLE VIA HEATHFIELD, MARKLY WOOD, OLD HEATHFIELD, RUSHLAKE GREEN, DALLINGTON FOREST, DARWELL WOOD AND NETHERFIELD Hastings to Battle had inspired me to do another route to the Abbey but roughly from the location others believe 1066 actually took place. It was another poorly researched route, with not quite enough sleep or sustenance. I did eat lunch and the weather was gorgeous but my discomfort no doubt coloured my dissatisfaction with churned-up forest drives, inaccessible woodland and park and the way time drifts away when it's boggy underfoot. I number of misjudgements made the route a mixture of trial and near ridiculous compensation, as will be discussed. In the fuzzy post-walk haze, I feel I'm sure I can make the route better and probably a bit less ambitious. There was some interest in the form of woods that might be explored better and further, I visited only fleetingly to which I could return. I've decided, that unless someone can convince me ot
