On my way to the Barton Hills, I passed Deacon and the Pegsdon Hills and for my second weekend in the east of England decided to return to this part of the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire.
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The Barton Hills Bedfordshire
For the second time now I had left behind the beautiful land and seascapes of Dorset to start a new work contract. This time I was moving to east England, Stevenage in Hertfordshire.
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St Catherine’s Hill Winchester Hampshire
Another early morning rise, another McDonald’s, another sunrise on the Hampshire south downs. This time, I was heading for St Catherine’s hill which should have great views over Winchester Cathedral.
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Old Winchester Hill Hampshire South Downs
After the witnessing of a beautiful red dawn from Beacon hill on the Hampshire south downs, I was now making my way to Old Winchester Hill.
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Hampshire South Downs Beacon Hill
Living in east Dorset I was not far from the border of Hampshire. The south downs in the south east of England is one of my favourite places to walk and take landscape photos. Today was going to be my first venture into the Hampshire part of the South Downs starting at Beacon Hill and making my way to Old Winchester Hill.
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Deal Hythe and Sandgate Kent
It looked like I had picked the wrong week to do a road trip. My last few days in Folkestone Kent and it was very wet and windy with a few breaks of sunshine through the clouds. What follows is a few shots I got from around Deal, Hythe and Sandgate on the Kent coast.
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Elham Valley Kent
One good thing with being on a road trip, staying in a hotel, you are more motivated to get outside rain or shine. The rain and clouds had returned with a vengeance, after a break of one day along the north downs. Based in Folkestone, I decided to take a trip inland to the Elham Valley.
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Folkestone North Downs Way
When in Folkestone, you can’t help notice the surrounding backdrop of the North downs hills. There was a break in the gloomy winter weather, it was going to be a sunny day, blues skies and a gentle breeze. I was heading up those hills of the North Downs Way.
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The Warren Folkestone Kent
I began my roadtrip in the south east of the UK at Folkestone in Kent. I have friends living there I could visit and the hotels were cheap. Folkestone is also good for walks and landscape photography with some dramatic coastline heading to the Warren and the Kent and North downs as a great backdrop.
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Friston Forest White Horse View
Although I had covered most of the South Downs in East Sussex over the last year, there were still pockets left undiscovered. I also realised this late in the day I not have a good landscape photo of the White Horse on high and over. That was where I was heading via hiking through Friston forest.
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Crane Down Folkington Hill East Sussex
The forecast was a cloudy Saturday morning but needed to get out for a good walk and not too far away. My initial plan was a walk from Wilmington over Crane Down and then onto Friston forest.
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Wolstonbury Hill South Downs West Sussex
While ascending Ditchling beacon on the south downs I noticed the outline of Wolstonbury hill on the border in West Sussex. I knew then I would return to walk to its summit and take some landscape photographs from there.
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