Walks from Uckfield

Undulating low Weald countryside, fields, green lanes, woods, golf course and suburban estates.

Time: 3h30

Warnings: Quite a few stiles.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Moderate Wealden once-blocked rights of way: a nature reserve, a mill and weir, a golf resort, a village and distant Downs views.

Warnings: Around 200m of ascent.

Walk details: Travelog Lewes (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Undulating Wealden walk past a church, a historic Ouse bridge, a lake-and-rock-tunnel reserve and a landscaped country estate.

Time: 2h30

Warnings: Navigation needs care; a short road section.

Walk details: Travelog Lewes (tips, photos, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Undulating Low Weald countryside, Uck Valley, golf course, stream valleys, old deer park, parkland and bluebell woods.

Time: 5h

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Linear walk across East Sussex, farmland, fields, villages and countryside between Robertsbridge and Uckfield.

Warnings: Can be overgrown.

Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).

Recommended: Really peaceful. A peaceful route mainly on field paths and woodland tracks through the Low Weald clay country of small fields, hedgerows and patches of woodland, with a short section of road walking. Actively farmed land with arable, mowed hay and recently ploughed fields; numerous stiles and gates and footbridges. Passes through Ditchling Common; occasional glimpses of the South Downs; the churches at Chailey and Newick have quiet benches in the churchyards; there is a memorial to Polish WW2 squadrons near Plumpton Green.

Woodland: a fifth under tree cover.

Time: 5h–10h30

Lunch: Newick has several pubs, a bakery and a village shop a short diversion off the route.

Warnings: Fields containing cattle and sheep; numerous stiles, gates and footbridges to negotiate; one field is home to camels you must not walk through.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A lovely, scenic route along the banks of the rivers Uck and Ouse. A scenic, almost entirely off-road and flat valley walk following the Rivers Uck and Ouse, partly along an old railway line. Rural obstacles throughout (stiles, kissing gates, larger gates) and paths that can be very muddy in wet weather and with knee-high wet vegetation in places. Follows the Sussex Ouse Valley Way and an old railway line; passes through the new Horsted Green Park (not yet on OS maps). Expect cattle and horses.

Time: 4h–8h30

Lunch: Isfield and Barcombe Mills both have pubs just off the route.

Warnings: Can be muddy.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Reverse direction: the Saturday Walkers Club.

An attractive route. An attractive route passing through hay meadows, cattle pastures, cereal fields and the wild heathland of Chailey Common, taking in pretty villages. Well traced on the map, but some sections have missing fingerposts and broken stiles and one stretch is very overgrown. Passes through the villages of Newick and Scaynes Hill, and across Chailey Common.

Time: 5h–9h30

Lunch: Pubs and village stores in Newick and Scaynes Hill.

Warnings: The worst section, about 1.5 miles from Uckfield between the A22 roundabout and a disused railway embankment, is rarely used and very overgrown, wading through bracken, nettles and brambles. Some broken stiles and missing fingerposts; sat nav helps keep direction across Chailey Common.

Walk details: Slow Ways.