Jack And Jill East

Past Endless Poppies

A Well Deserved Breather Near Kingston

Just three of us were up for this new off road ride. The ride started from the excellent free car part at Clayton windmills (Jack and Jill). From here we headed down the fast familiar tracks leading to the Southern turn-off at Black cap farm. Three miles of steady decent took us down and across the A27 before climbing up Bullock hill. This led onto the highlight of the ride , the two mile sweeping twisted descent down the edge of an escarpment  known locally as 'the snake'. What goes down must go up and unfortunately the uphill section following this was badly overgrown so we had to walk up most of it. Before too long some tracks I had never used before brought us back up to Kingston and then to the familiar climb past Lewes prison. Although we still had nine miles to go, I felt like we were home and dry as once past the prison all we had to do was ride in a straight line over the undulating downs back to the start. This turned out to be a great ride and definitely one to repeat next year. Looking west from the car park we could see lots of tracks heading west and an   awesome hill in front of us.We decided that our next ride would be to head west and investigate what's out there. On getting home I did some research and found out the hill is called Wolstonbury Hill (site of a bronze age fort) and managed to map out another circular passing over it, so that will be our next ride.