Robertsbridge to Uckfield walk
to do
History
This is a list of previous times this walk has been done by the club (since Jan 2010). For more recent events (since April 2015), full details are shown.
Date | Option | Post | # | Weather |
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Sat, 20-Jul-24 | Robertsbridge to Uckfield | 2 | weather fine and mostly sunny |
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Thu, 18-Jul-24
Nice idea to have a series of walks inspired by Hilaire Belloc, a splendidly disputatious chap who I'm sure would have enjoyed himself on SWC walks. Reading his Wikipedia entry I see that as an undergraduate he once walked from Oxford to Marble Arch (55 miles) in 11½ hours, so perhaps that could be pencilled in for a future outing?
I suspect that rating this 38 km Robertsbridge hike as 3/10 must have been in comparison with Belloc's other Herculean efforts, but it does seem at odds with the rest of the SWC collection: it's longer and with more ascent than almost all our 10/10 walks. [NB. the walk page shows a total ascent of 1520m, but smoothing the data points brings it down to a more modest – but still strenuous – 711m.]
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Thu, 18-Jul-24
walked from Oxford to Marble Arch (55 miles) in 11½ hours, so perhaps that could be pencilled in for a future outing?
Phew; we'd have to split that into two walks at the very least.
The landlord at The Ostrich PH mentioned the Four man walk book to me in the early 2000s and I picked up a 2nd hand copy of the out of print book. (It is now in the public domain, download link here.)
In 2008 there were tentative plans for a 6 day SWC autumn trip which came to nothing.
I intend going on this walk, alas no breakfast at the now closed (2004) Jack Fuller's PH.
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Fri, 26-Jul-24
Good day out for the2 of us.