The Landscape of the South Downs
The setting of the Downs Barn is an ancient and lovely landscape, and a microcosm of the landscape of the South Downs as a whole.
The Sompting Estate’s downland has some wooded hillsides like those of the western downs, and also bare 'whale-backed' hills like the eastern downs. It has gentle slopes running down towards the sea, and also some steep scarp slopes echoing those on the Wealden edge a little to the north.
The distant white cliffs of Seaford Head can be seen from the Downs Barn, in the gap between the wooded hills of the Mountain and Lancing Clump. Nearby are Cissbury and Chanctonbury rings, and the Steyning Bowl: from any of these, you can look either north to the blue plain of the Weald, or south to the blue sea.
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Protection
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Management
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South Downs
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South Downs Land Country Land & Business Association
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History and Interpretation |
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