Product Description

The South Downs Way runs for 100 miles (160 km) over the chalk downland of Sussex and Hampshire, from Eastbourne to Winchester. It is one of only two National Trails that can be used not only by walkers but also by cyclists and horse-riders for its entire length This is the complete, official guide for the long-distance walker or the weekend stroller. All you need is this one book. National Trail Guides are the official guidebooks to the fifteen National Trails in England and Wales and are published in association with Natural England, the official body charged with developing and maintaining the Trails.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80582 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Customer Reviews

South Downs Way - National Trail Guide
Thanks for organising the supply of the South Downs Way National Trail Guide. Whilst down in that area of the country last week found it very usefull to select sections of the way to walk and hopefully will continue working on the whole job !

As always these guides benefit from having the OS mapping as a base to follow.

Strangely, as this trail is routed from Eastbourne to Winchester (going West), you always end up turning the pages backwards to walk the other way ! Could do with being one of those guides where it can be read either way ?

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Regards, David Wimbush

A Superb description of the route for walkers and bike and horse riders
A detailed description of the 100 miles of the South Downs Way bridle path.
The summary introduction to the route and advice to users is well presented, and the whole route is shown on small scale maps.
The route details are superbly presented in 11 individual sections, each with large scale contoured Ordnance Survey type maps. Significant waypoints and features are clearly marked. A useful feature is that the maps are detailed over a wide enough area to allow deviations from and return to the route, as required. It would be really difficult to get lost using this book.
An essential book for anyone wanting to experience the South Downs Way.

Excellent guide
Used this guide when I walked the path during the summer. Brilliant guide with everything you need to find your way but with loads of valuable additional information about the areas you walk through. I have quite a few of these National Trail Guides and they are all just as good as this.