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Ride-UK The National Bridleroute Network

UK: South East: West Sussex: On Horseback

The West Sussex on Horseback book contains a guide to 25 routes including 5 suitable for horse-drawn vehicles.

Status: Open

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This book can be bought from The British Horse Society's bookshop. Click on the picture to order online, or telephone 08701 202 244 to confirm the price. Orders can be made by credit card over the telephone, or by post from
The Bookshop,
The British Horse Society,
Stoneleigh Deer park,
Kenilworth,
Warwickshire CV8 2XZ.

Ordnance Survey
This paths and tracks making up this route can be seen on the following Ordnance Survey maps. The Landranger series at 1:50,000 are useful route maps covering large areas of land.

Landranger Map 186: Aldershot & Guildford, Camberley & Haslemere (trace)

Landranger Map 187: Dorking, Reigate and Crawley Area

Landranger Map 197: Chichester & The South Downs

Landranger Map 198: Brighton & Lewis, Haywards Heath

Acknowledgements
A number of people and organisations have given their time and expertise to provide details for the book and open up the trails, or contributed in some other material way.
In particular, The British Horse Society would like to thank Jenny Dabbs, Heather Rishman, Gill Barker, Joyce Whatley, Mrs Shaxon, Mrs Rose and Helen Baldwin who all helped with the surveying, developing and describing the routes; Rosemary Attfield and the late Elizabeth Adams for their original involvement with the Downs Link Rides; Clifford Mould for permission to re-issue and adapt his original rides in the Graffhm area, Caroline Sharpe for her delightful drawings and Kerstin Alford for additional artwork. The Society also thanks the National Trust on whose land a number of these trails wind; Jill Wallace of the Blackdown Management Committee without whose patient assistance our plas to feature the Blackdown trails would have falled apatr; Russell Robson and the staff of the Sussex Downs Conservation Board and Crispin Scott and the staff of the Planning Depatrment, West Sussex County Council, whose organisations not only gave financial support but also considerable assistance with the project. Thanks are due to Mrs Ronnie Perrin, the British Horse Society County Access and Bridleways Officer for West Sussex and Mrs Chris White, the Society's Regional Access and Bridleways Officer, who together with Chris' husband Alan, patiently checked out each of these routes, co-ordinating the whole project with such enthusiasm and without them the book would not have been possible.