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Graffham Down, Scott’s Corner Reserve, West Sussex
Early September 2024
This was the first camp on the South Downs’ Way on my walk from Amberley to Winchester.
This great little spot in one of the many gated and fenced off reserves/enclosures in the area.
I found this one which was empty and set up on the grass track behind a bush where I cooked a hot meal on a wet and rainy evening. I wasn’t disturbed and heard no one apart from cattle in an adjacent field.
Coordinates:
50°56’19.0″N 0°41’18.2″W
Getting there:
I walked there following the South Downs’ Way.
It’s roughly 10 miles/16 km from Amberley train station and just over 1 mile / 1.6 km from Graffham village. It looks like you can park in the village of Graffham but the closest car park according to Google maps is Cocking Hill car park 3 miles / 4.8 km away.
Heads up:
Nothing really to report. There are plenty of quiet places to camp around this area from the many flat grassy enclosures to plenty of wooded areas.
As I left in the morning, I noticed that many of the other meadow enclosures contained sheep.
The enclosure where I camped was slug city – they were everywhere. They were all over the ground as I entered in the evening and when I left in the morning. I also needed to remove them from outside of the tent in the morning and from my cooking things as I left them in the vestibule.
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