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Family strollers wander down to Birling Gap, with the Seven Sisters ahead

When you draw level with Cornish Farm (TV 564 964) turn left in the direction of Warren Hill. Pass along the left-hand side of the farm and its outbuildings, then through a gate keep ahead along a track that leads into a valley known as Wigden’s Bottom. Come to a water treatment building, shown as a pumping station on the 1:25,000 map, and keep ahead a short distance beyond it as far as a dew pond seen on the left. Now turn sharply to the right at a junction, and angle up the slope (virtually cutting back) on a bridleway signed to Beachy Head.

Passing through a line of scrub come onto Long Down and bear left. Remain along the crest of the Downs – a big and spacious landscape grazed by innumerable sheep – roughly following the right-hand fenceline that leads to a bridle gate with a view of Bullockdown Farm off to the right. The way becomes enclosed by fences and a flintstone wall, and eventually brings you to a road at TV 591 971. Eastbourne is now seen ahead.