Pyewoo three

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This route was created to avoid the unscreened path beside the busy road between Falmer and Woodingdean on PyeWoo 1 and 2 but the northern half is just the same as PyeWoo 2. There is 2.2km or 1.4km less road in total than PyeWoo 1 or 2. On the flipside it is a couple of miles longer with more up and down and a long flight of paved steps up/down a steep hillside. Otherwise it has similar gradients to PyeWoo 1 but PyeWoo 2 is (relatively) gentle.

It starts with the climb up through Pyecombe Golf Course and then mostly along ridge tops, bar a dip down to Lower Standean hamlet. It comes down again to pretty Stanmer Village along paths parallel to the lane then up to another ridge with views of Stanmer House and Stanmer Park (most of this valley is an extensive country park). This ridge separates the Stanmer valley and the University of Sussex campus' valley. The route separates from PyeWoo 1 and 2 and runs around the edge of Stanmer Park instead of down into the campus. Next under the A27, past Falmer Station and through the University of Brighton campus. From here to Bevendean uses field edge paths and tracks up to the top of Falmer Hill then a slower descent down an old track called Jugg's Road. Local authority signs recommend this part as a country walk. The roads in Bevendean only have local traffic but then it's the long steep steps up to Warren Road and the racecourse. The Drove is another old track which is first just a footpath set back from the busy road but after 400m it goes behind the north western edge of Woodingdean and has views across steep sided valley the other side.

Attached map shows the good choice of mid-route places to eat, use toilets, etc in Stanmer and the nearest parts of Sussex campus. Also multiple buses or trains from Falmer Station.

(The other way north from Woodingdean is a permissive path from The Drove down to Bevendean Recreation Ground. It could make a shorter route than this but I tried it and it has a very steep part through woodland where the ground was churned and unsteady where used by horses, quite hairy in the relatively dry weather and potentially treacherous. None of the Strava app runners ever use this path which is rarely a good sign.)

This route was created to avoid the unscreened path beside the busy road between Falmer and Woodingdean on PyeWoo 1 and 2 but the northern half is just the same as PyeWoo 2. There is 2.2km or 1.4km less road in total than PyeWoo 1 or 2. On the flipside it is a couple of miles longer with more up and down and a long flight of paved steps up/down a steep hillside. Otherwise it has similar gradients to PyeWoo 1 but PyeWoo 2 is (relatively) gentle.

It starts with the climb up through Pyecombe Golf Course and then mostly along ridge tops, bar a dip down to Lower Standean hamlet. It comes down again to pretty Stanmer Village along paths parallel to the lane then up to another ridge with views of Stanmer House and Stanmer Park (most of this valley is an extensive country park). This ridge separates the Stanmer valley and the University of Sussex campus' valley. The route separates from PyeWoo 1 and 2 and runs around the edge of Stanmer Park instead of down into the campus. Next under the A27, past Falmer Station and through the University of Brighton campus. From here to Bevendean uses field edge paths and tracks up to the top of Falmer Hill then a slower descent down an old track called Jugg's Road. Local authority signs recommend this part as a country walk. The roads in Bevendean only have local traffic but then it's the long steep steps up to Warren Road and the racecourse. The Drove is another old track which is first just a footpath set back from the busy road but after 400m it goes behind the north western edge of Woodingdean and has views across steep sided valley the other side.

Attached map shows the good choice of mid-route places to eat, use toilets, etc in Stanmer and the nearest parts of Sussex campus. Also multiple buses or trains from Falmer Station.

(The other way north from Woodingdean is a permissive path from The Drove down to Bevendean Recreation Ground. It could make a shorter route than this but I tried it and it has a very steep part through woodland where the ground was churned and unsteady where used by horses, quite hairy in the relatively dry weather and potentially treacherous. None of the Strava app runners ever use this path which is rarely a good sign.)