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Ironmaster's Walk, Batemans

Loop Walk · East Sussex

150

XP

about 44 min walking

Easy
2.94 km
Loop
01:00
Graded from its length and climb.

Longstanding tradition claims that Bateman's was built by a Wealden ironmaster. It is difficult now to appreciate that Burwash was ever anything other than a village, but the Normans saw the growth of small scale iron production that lasted 4 centuries.

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126 m

76 m

26 m

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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Rolling walk

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

65 m

Drop

57 m

Highest

95 m

Lowest

36 m

Which way round

Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.

Main climb: km 0.9–2.1, from 40 m to 86 m.

How the 3.1 km splits

Flat

0.9 km

Climbing

1.1 km

Descending

1.1 km

Campsites near the start

Brightling Park Camping

3.1 km from the start · 5.0★ (2)

Cairds Camping and Caravan Site

3.6 km from the start · 4.5★ (41)

Column Wood

4.6 km from the start

Glottenham Castle

6 km from the start · 4.8★ (13)

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