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Friston spills into the Downs and almost swamps its more attractive neighbour, East Dean. The little church of St Mary the Virgin stands on the western edge, and dates from the 11th century, while Friston Place, seen on the approach to the village, was built in about 1650. Until 1926, when it was blown down in a storm, a windmill stood in a field near the church.

Cross the A259 with care, enter the churchyard through a tapsell gate and, passing the lovely old church on your left, go out by another gate to a sloping meadow with a glimpse of the sea. At the bottom of the meadow you come into East Dean. Bear right along a residential street, soon passing the village green on your left, beside which stands The Tiger Inn. The street forks: branch right (the upper option) along Went Way, at the end of which go through a field gate into a meadow and curve left, then rise along the lower edge of woodland. The path now makes a steady climb through the woods before emerging on the open downland of Went Hill.