Walk The Chalk
23 April 2024
10.00 to 14.00
Join Rural Strides to walk the chalk over Harting Down. This is an undulating 7 mile walk where we will not only walk the chalk but talk about it too. Is there a more iconic landscape than that of the chalk downloads of southern England? Archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes thought not when she wrote that “without chalk there could be no Albion”. However, while chalk has shaped our landscape, way of life, culture and national identity, it is difficult to categorise it a rock. The white cliffs of the Seven Sisters and Dover are the most outwardly visible displays of chalk in the south. However, it is here in the Western Weald that the full complexity of the chalk is best appreciated.
