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Walking - Pagham Harhour

At Pagham Harbour you’ll find a world of breathtaking coastal scenery and evocative marshes and the chance to walk for miles, enjoy the views, birdlife and the space and to savour the salty tang of the sea. There are also spectacular watery walks at picturesque West Wittering and Bosham.

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Pulborough Brooks RSPB Nature Reserve

Bring you binoculars and explore the nature trail that winds through the RSPB reserve at Wiggonholt to viewing hides overlooking the flooded watermeadows in the Arun Valley.

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Walking - South Downs Way

The South Downs Way lies entirely within the South Downs National Park and the trail offers some of the loveliest countryside in Britain, including ancient Weald woodland and rolling farmland. By horse, foot, or cycle - nature lovers will enjoy the diverse bird and wildlife along the way.

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Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, Stoughton

Yew forest of great antiquity, one of the largest in Europe, and where the trees are thick (nothing else grows) for yew trees block out the light. Elsewhere, there is herb-rich grassland with chalk-loving plants, including eleven types of orchid.

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Pagham Harbour RSPB Nature Reserve

The sea wall around the harbour overlooks shingle beach and tidal mud flats, now a 1000 acre reserve containing more than 200 species of birds, including wintering duck and waders.

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Chichester Harbour

An area of 3,000 acres that is of prime importance to bird life. It forms the largest area of estuarine mudflats on the south coast of Britain and is an ideal spot for watching waders and wildfowl, especially in autumn and winter.

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Arundel Wetland Centre

Arundel Wetland Centre, set in ancient woodlands near the River Arun, is home to kingfishers, water voles, hundreds of British wildfowl and migrating wild birds. Visitors can enjoy daily ‘Safaris’ on quiet, electric boats (weather permitting) or walk amongst ancient reed beds with well positioned hides. The Centre’s café, has stunning views and is the place to bird watch over lunch!

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Knepp Wildland, Dial Post

Knepp is a 3,500-acre estate just south of Horsham. Since 2001, the land – once intensively farmed - has been devoted to a pioneering re-wilding project. Using grazing animals as the drivers of habitat creation, and with the restoration of dynamic, natural water courses, the project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife, including many breeding rare species.

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Lupins at Terwick Church, Woolbeding

The field in front of Terwick's small picturesque church, framed by the South Downs in the background, is much loved for its striking display of colourful lupins each year. Jane Hodge gifted the field to the National Trust in 1938 and the meadow still holds hundreds of lupins, with a mix of wild grasses and flowers such as ox-eye daisies, poppies, vetch and meadow cranesbill.

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Ebernoe Common, Petworth

Ebernoe Common is dominated by old wood pasture where Commoners would have turned out their cattle or pigs to graze and browse on young trees and scrub, beech mast and acorns. When grazing stopped in the middle of the 20th century the Common became overgrown, and since 1980 the Sussex Wildlife Trust has been opening up glades and rides, and restoring grazing to the reserve.

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Devil's Dyke, Brighton

Devil's Dyke is a geological quirk, a spectacular, steep-sided downland combe or cleft 300ft (91m) deep and half a mile (800m) wide, with wide views across the Weald from the hill-fort above the Dyke. Legend has it that the Devil dug the dyke to flood the area with sea water and, in doing so, destroy the churches of the Weald.

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Walking - Pagham Harhour

Pulborough Brooks RSPB Nature Reserve

Walking - South Downs Way

Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, Stoughton

Pagham Harbour RSPB Nature Reserve

Chichester Harbour

Arundel Wetland Centre

Knepp Wildland, Dial Post

Lupins at Terwick Church, Woolbeding

Ebernoe Common, Petworth

Devil's Dyke, Brighton