Up to Up Marden

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"A walk on the Downs to and from one of Sussex’s most unspoiled medieval churches."
Walk directions

From West Marden cross the B2146 and continue along Locksash Lane, Uppark House away to your left. Climb and follow the lane as it bears left past a brick and flint cottage to Locksash Farm. Continue to the left of the farm buildings and pass a footpath post.

The track descends to a fork, just inside woods, where you ignore a track to the left, then immediately fork left by a marker post. Descend through old hazel coppicing, and emerge into a field. Continue ahead across the valley floor and then up to marker post in a wood, Grevitts Copse. Shortly the path converges with a track joining from the right, now passing through a sweet chestnut coppice and bearing gently left to the crest. Keep left at a path junction (with power lines now visible) at footpath post and descend, continuing ahead at a footpath junction post.

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  Terrain  - Field tracks and footpaths, lane at the start
  Landscape  - Rolling chalk downland and dry valleys, some woodland
  Dog friendliness  - On a lead on the lanes and in the villages
  Parking  - Roadside parking in West Marden village
  Toilets en route  - None on route
About the walk
Up on the downs are three small churches, all in tiny hamlets: East Marden, North Marden and Up Marden. This walk climbs to Up Marden, the best of the three, but the other two churches are well worth a visit. East Marden is a plain 13th-century church with lancet windows, and a chamber organ that...
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Up to Up Marden

Recommended by
Our view
"A walk on the Downs to and from one of Sussex’s most unspoiled medieval churches."
Dog friendly
Location
Nearest postcode:
Additional information
  Terrain - Field tracks and footpaths, lane at the start
  Landscape - Rolling chalk downland and dry valleys, some woodland
  Dog friendliness - On a lead on the lanes and in the villages
  Parking - Roadside parking in West Marden village
  Toilets en route - None on route
About the walk
Up on the downs are three small churches, all in tiny hamlets: East Marden, North Marden and Up Marden. This walk climbs to Up Marden, the best of the three, but the other two churches are well worth a visit. East Marden is a plain 13th-century church with lancet windows, and a chamber organ that...
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