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West Sussex > South Downs Way Guide
Picture of fields at the Steyning Bowl on the South Downs.

The South Downs Way
Steyning Bowl

The Steyning Bowl is a wonderfully sinous hillside overlooking the lovely country town of Steyning, which is well worth visiting if your schedule allows time for it.

Paragliders particularly enjoy the Steyning Bowl because it has slopes which face in many different directions. This means that the crazy folk who want to throw themselves off the side of the hill are likely to find a suitable air current to sweep them up to a dizzying height.

As you approach Steyning Bowl you will probably notices the chinky flint memorial to local farmers Mr and Mrs Walter and Mollie Langmead.

As you leave the Steyning Bowl the South Downs Way passes to the south of a small triangular clump of trees called the Bramber Beeches.

The Bramber Beeches were bought with money donated by branches of the Womens Insitute from all over Sussex to mark the Sussex WI's diamond jubilee in 1979 - a fittingly local tribute, expecially because the first ever WI meeting took place in Sussex in the Fox at Charlton.

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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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SOUTH DOWNS WAY - STEP BY STEP
  • Butser Hill to Harting Down
  • Harting to Cocking
  • Cocking to Upwaltham
  • Upwaltham to Amberley
  • Amberley to Washington
  • Washington to Upper Beeding
  • Washington & the A24
  • Frieslands
  • Chanctonbury Ring
  • Above Wiston
  • Steyning Bowl
  • Annington Hill
  • Upper Beeding to Devil's Dyke
  • Devil's Dyke to Ditchling Beacon
  • South Downs Way Tips
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WEST SUSSEX TOWNS
  • Arundel
  • Bognor Regis
  • Burgess Hill
  • Chichester
  • Crawley
  • East Grinstead
  • Haywards Heath
  • Horsham
  • Littlehampton
  • Midhurst
  • Petworth
  • Shoreham-by-Sea
  • Steyning
  • Worthing

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