Walks from Newhaven Town
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Newhaven Town Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Newhaven Town by train.
Newhaven Town Circular via Seven Sisters Country Park
Final stage of the Vanguard Way over the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs from Seven Sisters Country Park via Seaford to Newhaven.
Coastal: four fifths along the coast.
Seven Sisters: A run of chalk sea cliffs on the Sussex coast within the Seven Sisters Country Park.
Time: 3h–6h
Warnings: Starts at Cuckmere (Seven Sisters Country Park), which has no railway station.
Walk details: Walking Post (tips, photos and local insights).
Newhaven Town Circular via Piddinghoe
Harbour, a WWII fort museum, cliffs, riverside Ouse Valley Way and downland, to a village with a round-towered church.
Warnings: Three stiles between Hoathdown and Piddinghoe.
Walk details: Travelog Lewes (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Newhaven Town to Brighton
Harbourside path, white chalk cliffs, clifftop and undercliff concrete paths, shingle beach and busy seaside promenade and boardwalk.
Warnings: Exposed in high wind.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Similar walk: Railwalks.
Newhaven Town to Newhaven Harbour
Clifftop coast path, woods and fields, river bank, South Downs foothills, hills, shingle beach and deserted village ruins.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Lewes to Newhaven Town
The stretch along the river is spectacular; the views of the South Downs are fantastic. A lovely, mostly flat route through the Ouse Valley villages, crossing several arable fields on straight and easily-followed paths before joining the river. The riverside stretch is flat and easy; ease of crossing the fields depends on which crops are growing. Joins the South Downs Way for a short stretch and passes the ruins of Lewes Priory. Passes through Southease, Rodmell and Iford; Rodmell has Monk's House, the National Trust property once home to Virginia Woolf. There is a drinking water tap by Southease church.
Time: 3h–6h30
1 lunch spot: the Abergavenny Arms
Warnings: A short stretch along Newhaven Road has only a narrow pavement then a verge beside fast traffic. The approach into Newhaven is along a big industrial road, though on a wide separated pavement.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Newhaven Town to Portslade
Harbourside path, white chalk cliffs, clifftop and undercliff concrete paths, shingle beach, busy promenade, beach huts and wide seafront promenade.
Warnings: Exposed in high wind.
Source: A longer variant of Newhaven to Brighton and Portslade – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).