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Iron gate, Ratton Drive, Willingdon
Image: © nick macneill
Taken: 3 Feb 2012
0.04 miles
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Ratton Village from Butts Brow
Looking east over Eastbourne and towards the cliffs at Hastings. Ratton Village is in the foreground.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 4 Mar 2006
0.10 miles
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Following the Jubilee Way in Eastbourne [9]
The path runs alongside the back garden fences of the houses in The Combe.
The Jubilee Way runs along the 300-foot contour of the wooded slopes of the South Downs escarpment overlooking Eastbourne. Some 6 miles long, the path runs from Willingdon through meadows and woodland to Eastbourne seafront. The path was named the Jubilee Way in 1977 in celebration of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. Ash dieback disease has decimated the area.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 2 May 2022
0.14 miles
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Bridleway to Bourne Hill
Separating Willingdon Golf Course beyond the fence to the left and Ratton Village beyond the walls to the right. The latter was built on the site of Ratton Manor some of whose boundary walls still survive. The bridleway begins on Willingdon Road, the A2270, and joins the South Downs Way on Bourne Hill.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 24 Jan 2009
0.16 miles
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Footpath, Babylon Down
This one links Marcia Close in Ratton Village with another footpath beneath Butts Brow just after it has crossed another that follows the western edge of Ratton Village.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 24 Jan 2009
0.17 miles
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Flowering magnolia tree in Ratton, Eastbourne
This well established magnolia tree unfailingly gives a spectacular display of white to pink flowers every Spring.
Image: © Andrew Diack
Taken: 25 Mar 2022
0.17 miles
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Spectacular flowering magnolia, The Close, Eastbourne
Behind the spectacular magnolia tree, in the centre of the photo, lies part of a line of yew trees, known as the Twelve Apostles. These trees were planted in the 15th century by the monks who lived in the nearby Benedictine Abbey. Reputedly a monk lies buried beneath each of the Twelve Apostles and that a curse linked to the trees means that anyone cutting one of them will soon die.
Image: © Andrew Diack
Taken: 25 Mar 2022
0.17 miles
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Following the Jubilee Way in Eastbourne [10]
The path now ascends gently away from the houses,
The Jubilee Way runs along the 300-foot contour of the wooded slopes of the South Downs escarpment overlooking Eastbourne. Some 6 miles long, the path runs from Willingdon through meadows and woodland to Eastbourne seafront. The path was named the Jubilee Way in 1977 in celebration of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. Ash dieback disease has decimated the area.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 2 May 2022
0.18 miles
9
Following the Jubilee Way in Eastbourne [8]
The route continues through the woods.
The Jubilee Way runs along the 300-foot contour of the wooded slopes of the South Downs escarpment overlooking Eastbourne. Some 6 miles long, the path runs from Willingdon through meadows and woodland to Eastbourne seafront. The path was named the Jubilee Way in 1977 in celebration of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. Ash dieback disease has decimated the area.
Image: © Michael Dibb
Taken: 2 May 2022
0.18 miles
10
Babylon Track
A footpath and bridleway that links Old Mansion Close in Ratton Village to Jevington via Willingdon Bottom and Butts Brow. The first section is a footpath until it joins a bridleway further up Babylon Down.
Image: © Simon Carey
Taken: 24 Jan 2009
0.19 miles