Stephen and Natalia’s Discoveries

South Downs Way Map Sea and Beach Yew Tree Forest The Devil’s Humps

The South Downs Way stretches for a hundred miles from Eastbourne to Winchester. (Here’s a link to its website).
A map I sketched of Stephen and Natalia’s journeys

The South Downs are rounded hills, not pointed mountains. They are in a National Park – here is the website. If you compare an actual map with the picture you’ll see that some of the geography of Knightgarde Manor’s world is slightly different.

Sea and beach

  • West Wittering
  • Wind Farm
You can see the sea from the top of the Downs, and across most of Sussex when you look out to sea you can see Rampion wind farm. Find out about it here.

Yew Tree Forest

The yew trees in the top pictures are very old – maybe 1000 years old, so they might have been there in Nan and William’s time. They have grown into weird shapes. One day I walked through them when it was gloomy and misty – and definitely spooky.

The trees are in Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, the first National Nature Reserve in this country . They are some of the oldest living things in the country. More information here.

The Devil’s Humps

If you climb up from the Yew Forest you reach some Bronze Age burial sites. The most direct way takes you up more than a hundred steps – but when you get there you can see to the coast, and almost to London.