The Avenue – Sussex Border Path
By: snowgood
Tags: Stansted Forest
Category: aircraft, The Sussex Border Path, Walking, World War II
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| Focal Length: | 35mm |
| ISO: | 500 |
| Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
| Camera: | ILCE-6000 |
Leaving Finchdean behind I strode out across the field heading into the northern reaches of Rowlands Castle.
I was here earlier in this year, but heading in the opposite direction. Back then each step was accompanied by a squelch, and often a slide.
Thankfully this time round it was dry. A little later I was filtering through a short lane, and across an open field before taking the old brick bridge over the railway.
Once on the Finchdean Road it was only a short walk before the route crossed over into Stansted Forest.
It looked like ideal country for a mountain bike ride, but the signs indicated otherwise.
After a short climb through “The Sling” the path broadened out into a grassy avenue. Then I played “Hunt the Gap”, as the Sussex Border Path hangs a right part way down.
Would I miss it? In truth it was further down than I anticipated, with a large wooden cross placed as a memorial to a WWII Typhoon pilot who crashed here in 1944.
Ah, that evoked memories of an old Airfix model I made as a teenager.
That mega house at the end of the tree lined way is (unsurprisingly) Stansted House. Probably worth a visit.
Not that I could, there was still some way to go.
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