3 men on a walk 2015: Boars Head to Wadhurst

Boars Head to Wadhurst along the Sussex Border Path

The Sussex Border Path (SBP) is our "Nominated" long distance trail to try and complete this year. Its about 150 miles long and runs from Emsworth on the English Channel (almost opposite the Isle of Wight) right round the top of West and East Sussex and ends at Rye. We have already done quite a few short sections of the SBP but this was an attempt to get a reasonable 15 mile section under our belt. However, a rainy forecast and the fact that the only pub on-route for lunch was "closed" led us to modify the target and settle for a shorter distance that finished in Wadhurst.

We had to use the 2-car trick for this one as there was no public transport back from Wadhurst to Boarshead and we also delayed the start slightly to miss the heavy rain that was forecast to stop around 10-00am. We might have missed the rain but we didn't miss the wind! In fact gale force winds were forecast and arrived but fortunately the West to East direction we were walking meant the wind was at our backs for most of the way and at one point we were literally blown along at an amazing pace, which can be seen by the very impressive average speed we maintained for this trek in the stats below.

This was a great walk on a warm but blowy day. The views were great and with Bluebells and other Spring flowers everywhere it was a very pretty walk too. As we neared Wadhurst we deviated from the SBP to "Best Beech" to try out the pub there. Ivan and I remembered walking to this pub last Autumn only to find it closed down. However, new owners now run the place and its open every day so we had to go take a look and it was a great place for lunch and a beer.

After lunch we had the last few miles to trek, up and down hills of course, until we arrived at the car at Wadhurst.