Local walks

A walk within Winchelsea

High Street (Look Out).
Strand Hill (Strand Gate).
Barrack Square, Spring Steps (Barrack Houses, Queen Elizabeth’s Spring).
Rookery Lane, Back Lane (Glebe).
Friars Road (Little House, Greyfriars).
St Thomas’s Street (Church of St Thomas the Martyr).
High Street (Firebrand, Periteau House, Little Shop).
Castle Street (Town Well, Armoury, Old Castle House, Salutation Cottages, Chelsea Cottage, King’s Leap).
North Street (Pipewell Gate).
School Hill, Mill Road, Mill Lane (Black Friars monastery site, St Leonard’s Windmill site, Castle Field).
Rectory Lane, Hiham Gardens (Blackfriars Barn, New Inn, Court Hall, Museum).

You can download a copy of the walk. You might also want to take a copy of the Town Map.

A walk around Winchelsea

German Street (Millennium town sign, Wesley's tree).
Monks Walk (Mariteau House, Trojans Plat, public toilets, Greyfriars parkland).
Public footpath across the fields or Wickham Rock Lane (St Johns Hospital wall, New Gate, Wickham Manor Farm).
Wickham Rock Lane, Royal Military Canal.
Sea Road, Strand, Strand Hill (Bridge Inn, Strand Guest House, Strand Gate).

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Footpaths around Winchelsea

There are a number of footpaths through open countryside around Winchelsea. These are shown on the attached map. Most of the footpaths cross land that is grazed by animals. Much of this land is owned by the National Trust. They have issued guidance to walkers about crossing fields being grazed by livestock. Please read this guidance, which is particularly pertinent when the animals have young.