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Low-growing mallow is common on the clifftops

Turn right alongside the road as far as a flint wall, then cross the road with care to follow a faint grass path ahead alongside gorse bushes. At a crossing grass path maintain direction down the slope. When this path forks, take the right branch ahead, now on the South Downs Way once more, and descend steeply to the refreshment kiosk on Dukes Drive where the walk began.

WALK 2

Butts Brow to Jevington and Friston

Start/FinishButts Brow car park, Willingdon (TQ 580 017)Distance7 miles (11km)MapsOS Explorer 123 Eastbourne & Beachy Head 1:25,000RefreshmentsPub at JevingtonAccessVia Butts Lane, WillingdonParkingAt Butts Brow (fee payable)

At the easternmost end of the South Downs, Butts Brow overlooks the narrow dry valley of Tas Combe which falls away to Willingdon on the outskirts of Eastbourne. From Butts Brow itself, and from neighbouring Combe Hill, an immense panorama reaches far out across the Weald in one direction, over the low-lying Pevensey Levels in another, and a succession of downland ridges elsewhere. This walk is a delight of big open views, neat valleys and forest rides, in which the true nature of the South Downs is revealed within the first few minutes.