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With the church of St Andrew to your right, follow the fenced bridleway of the South Downs Way alongside paddocks, then rise into woodland, where you come to a four-way junction of paths. Maintain direction until emerging from the woods near the head of the slope, where the path forks. Turn right here, and after a few paces go through a bridle gate. Before long, as the path takes you onto the open Downs, a view to the right reveals the Pevensey Levels beyond Polegate.

Eventually the way curves left round the head of the deep combe of Deep Dene and goes through a gate. Continue round to the left to pass just below the summit of Windover Hill, on which there’s the remains of a long barrow. If you stray onto that mound a magnificent panoramic view opens before you. Losing height now, pass the flat-topped site of Windover Reservoir and continue down the broad twisting path to a narrow lane at TQ 532 032.

Wander directly ahead on a hedge-enclosed footpath, and when this spills out at a junction of lanes, cross half-left, go through a gate into a meadow, and follow the left-hand boundary with Alfriston church ahead, and the River Cuckmere off to your right. On reaching the far end of the meadow, go through some trees to a crossing path, turn right and cross a bridge over the Cuckmere.