Local walks

A walk within Winchelsea

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

A walk around Winchelsea

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

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Walk 1--- A walk within Winchelsea

From the Look Out by the Strand Gate...

Look Out

...via the Church of St Thomas...

St Thomas's Church

...to the ancient Court Hall.

Court Hall


Walk 2 --- A walk around Winchelsea

From the Town Sign...

Town Sign

... around the eastern side of Winchelsea in open countryside along the Royal Military Canal...

Royal Military Canal

...to the Strand Gate.

Strand Gate