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For refreshments keep ahead to Alfriston High Street where there are shops, pubs and cafés.

For the continuing walk turn right on the west side of the river, and follow a raised footpath along the riverbank as far as a brick-built road bridge known as Long Bridge. Here you cross to the east bank and go through a kissing gate on the left. A footpath now takes you across two linking fields to a minor road near Milton Court Farm. Turn left, and after about 200 yards directly opposite Milton Court, cross a stile on the right. Bear left for a few paces into an adjoining open field, then take the footpath which cuts across it. On the far side cross the minor road again, and maintain direction through the next field to a gate seen well to the left of a house.

From Windover Hill above The Long Man, Wilmington can be seen in the flat land below

Keep ahead across a track, go through bushes and two gates, then through the next field, aiming for the right-hand end of farm buildings, where you come onto the road once again in Milton Street at TQ 535 041. (There’s a pub a short distance to the right.) Cross the road, and over a stile follow a footpath cutting across a large sloping field, with the spire of Wilmington church seen at the head of the slope. On the way across the field the Long Man of Wilmington comes into view (see the note about the Long Man in ssss1 above).