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Contents
Preface
Unploughing
Fossil Lobster poem
Site by site guide
More sites
Patcham drove roads
Back story |
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Some parts of the Brighton Downs are famous, like the Devil’s Dyke and Clayton’s Jack and Jill Windmills.
Most of them, though, have no right of public access and remain unvisited and unknown.
This book opens the door to those secret places, particularly those fragments of ancient Down pasture that have survived 60 years of agri-business. Those flowery grasslands are as central to the value of the Downs as heather moorland is to Exmoor.
We cannot defend the Downs if we do not know them. Yet, once known, the Downs will delight us all our lives long.
“A masterpiece of its kind” — Marion Shoard,
author of A Right to Roam and This Land is Our Land.
"Dave Bangs has produced a walking guide that puts the rest to shame. Beautifully produced, beautifully written, the description of the nature you can see and the history you can pick up on your roam are so rich..."
— Derek Wall, Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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