The South Downs Way
Manorfarm Down
The climb back up to the top of the South Downs Way is a long a tiring one taking you from 107 metres above sea level at the road to 227 metres at Heyshott Down - all in the space of 2 miles.
It's worth pausing for a rest and a look back from where you came from when you get towards the top of Manorfarm Hill. That's because this is the last view that you are going to get from the South Downs Way for a few miles.
In the approaching section of the South Downs Way the land to the north of the track is annoyingly a few feet higher - block off views of the Rother Valley and the attractive villages of Heyshott and Graffham.
To the south the view is blocked by thick woodland.
Herringdean Wood, Highditch Copse, Punters Copse and most of all the mass of Charlton Forest form an impenetrable curtain of trees.
There's an unusual downland sight a mile south of the Way at Singleton Oilfield - but even that is blocked out by the forest.
Places to visit close to the South Downs Way
Amberley | Arundel | Ashington | Bepton | Bignor | Bramber | Bramber Castle | Burpham | Bury | Chanctonbury Ring | Charlton | Chilgrove | Clayton | Cocking | Compton | Cootham | Devil's Dyke | The Devil's Humps | Didling | Duncton | East Dean | East Harting | Edburton | Findon | Graffham | Harting Down | Heyshott | Houghton | Hurstpierpoint | North Marden | Parham House | Poynings | Pyecombe | Rackham | Singleton | Slindon | South Harting | South Stoke | Stedham | Steyning | Storrington | Torberry Hill | Treyford | Trotton | Truleigh Hill | Uppark | Up Marden | Upwaltham | Upper Beeding | Washington | West Dean
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