A clear frosty Wednesday morning seemed ideal conditions for a little walk, so I drove to Slinfold and parked in Hayes Lane and set my tracker!

Having looked around the centre of the village, I headed to Stane Street via Park Street and turned north, passing Random Hall, a 16th century house, no acting as a hotel and wedding venue before turning left along the bridleway to Dedisham Manor, where I met a friendly grey horse, before crossing the A281 and walking up to the old furnace lakes, where I met some not so friendly sheep!

From here I doubled back on myself, heading back towards towards Clemsfold alongside a rather busy A281, joining Stane Street and walking down to the bridge over the Arun to see if I could see any evidence of Alfoldean Roman Station, but unfortunately I couldn't.

I then doubled back on myself again, heading north towards Rowhook along the Bridleway which runs alongside the original path of Stane Street and I was please to see that a large section of the original raised road, dropping away to the ditches each side was clearly visible (the picture is commented below).

After resisting the temptation of a pint at the Chequers in the hamlet of Rowhook, I turned tail and headed back south towards Slinfold, crossing the A281 and following bridleways (one of which was rather overgrown and required a field diversion!) and footpaths, including a steep and slippery climb to Rowfold Farm, back to the north east corner of the churchyard where I found the alignment of all the graves a little disconcerting as they are all roughly 10 degrees away from being in line with the footpath in order that they lay on an east/west axis.

After a few more photos in the village now that the sun had moved in the four hours since I first passed through, giving different light, I returned to the car and headed home.