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Highways & Byways in Sussex

CHAPTER XIII
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The reader must not imagine that St.
Leonard's Forest is rich in deserted farms with attractive orchards.

I have found no other, and indeed it is notably a place in which the explorer should be accompanied by provisions.
[Sidenote: LEONARDSLEE] To take train to Faygate and walk from that spot is the simplest way, although more interesting is it perhaps to come to Faygate at the end of the day, and, gaining permission to climb the Beacon Tower on the hill, in the Holmbush estate, retrace one's steps in vision from its summit.
In this case one would walk from Horsham to Lower Beeding, then strike north over Plummer's Plain.

This route leads by Coolhurst and through Manning Heath, just beyond which, by following the south, that runs for a mile, one could see Nuthurst.

Lower Beeding is not in itself interesting; but close at hand is Leonardslee, the seat of Sir Edmund Loder, which is one of the most satisfying estates in the county.

North and south runs a deep ravine, on the one side richly wooded, and on the other, the west, planted with all acclimatisable varieties of Alpine plants and flowering shrubs.


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