Seeing It Through
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL TO PETWORTH VIA FIVE OAKS, KIRDFORD AND EBERNOE COMMON Another line through the Low Weald on a cooler and dare I say, Autumnal-feeling day. Naturally, this is disconcerting in the last week of August but the heat has taken it's toll, noticeably on the grass and trees. The variously browned, wilted and dropped vegetation is all the more disconcerting as I walk through it, occasionally nibbling on non-shrivelled blackberries. That aside, this was a very fine traverse that didn't feel its 24 miles, until the next day, that is. I might be requiring hills for the next walk, if the temperature remains cool enough because the only real climbs occur right at the end, as you triumphantly scale the 'Capability Brown' mounds of Petworth Park. What you see here of the landscape are hedged fields and small settlements, interspersed with woodland and scrappy fragments of old common. Furthermore, we have a translocation of student populations from London and the ...
