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Route outline for walk es144:

Alfriston  -  The South Downs Way  -  Bostal Hill  -  Firle Beacon  -  Tilton Farm  -  Charleston Farmhouse  -  Upper Barn  -  Bopeep Farm  -  Alciston  -  Berwick  -  The Vanguard Way  -  Alfriston

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Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:

Charleston Farmhouse is a memorial to the Bloomsbury Group. Vanessa Ball, her fellow artist (and sometime lover) Duncan Grant & writer David Garnett moved in during1916. This unconventional & creative household soon became a focal point for the Bloomsbury Group. Visitors included T.S. Elliot, E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, Desmond MacCarthy, Lytton Stachey & Virgina Woolf.

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Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

0 English Mountains

0 Wainwrights

0 English Nuttalls

0 English Deweys

0 Wainwright Outlying Fells

1 Marilyn

0 Bridgets

Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Firle Beacon at 217m (712ft). Firle Beacon is classified as an English Marilyn (164th highest in England, 1502nd highest in the UK). The summit of Firle Beacon is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of The South Downs Way, a 162km (101 miles) linear footpath connecting Eastbourne (Holywell) in East Sussex, England with Winchester in Hampshire, England. The South Downs Way is waymarked by a National Trail acorn. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The South Downs Way.

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Part of this walk also follows a section of The Vanguard Way, a 106km (66 miles) linear footpath connecting East Croydon in Surrey, England with Newhaven Harbour in East Sussex, England. The Vanguard Way is waymarked by named posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Vanguard Way.

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You can find more walks near this one on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)

1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):

1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):

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