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NEWICK TO BERWICK STATION VIA THE OUSE, ISFIELD, PLASHETT WOOD, LAUGHTON COMMON, THE WOODS, LAUGHTON, LAUGHTON MANOR, RIPE AND MAYS FARM It's not often that I visit a place twice in a row. It goes against my creed but knowing that heat was persisting, I thought I'd try for more of the winged insects, as I'd enjoyed them so much last week . I actually saw more butterflies outside of Rowland Woods than within them. Try as I might, I could not cover any more distance and it was one 'wick' to another, rather than a 'wick to a 'haven. It's still catchy. Something about the flat, flood-plain sheep pasture, below The Downs, had the effect of stretching the distances and it was still a 20-miler before even climbing any hills. The path traverses a line of a Roman Road here and I can imagine the same thoughts being had by the ancient weary travellers of the Low Weald. The very last bit of my walk was made for simplicity and to switch it up from the former route . ...
