Villages of Warninglid, Slaugham & Staplefield

This has become one of my regular 1 hour rides, particularly when the weather is looking a bit unpredictable. My goal is to try and do it without stopping. Easy, one would expect after having been in training for the last 8 weeks! However, not so. There is a long hill very near to the start which leaves me gasping for breath and tires me before the ride has really begun. I managed it today only stopping twice out of necessity and a couple of times for photos.


I am nicknaming this ride "Scary wood ride" after hearing on the news the other night that Broxmead Lane woods, Bolney (1/2 mile from home) was the setting of a dead body with head & hands removed, unknown victim, case now reopened after 18 years. It is on the last leg of the ride. After taking a picture of a entrance into the wood I was determined to cycle up the steep gradient without stopping. I was spooked and my mobile phone was beeping to tell me the battery was running out.....