A relaxing 9¼ km stroll along the beautiful Arun Valley with magnificent views of Arundel Castle. Walking alongside the river, through water meadows, low-lying woodlands and alongside a wetland nature reserve gives this route an abundance of wildlife and a spirit of adventure!
Pubs & cream teas
There are two pubs and a tea room that link to this
walk, providing plenty of opportunity for refreshments at the start or along the way.
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The
Bridge Inn, Amberley
The Bridge Inn is a delightful
traditional English Pub, serving well kept real ales and delicious, locally
sourced, home cooked food.
http://www.bridgeinnamberley.com/ |
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Riverside Tea Rooms, Amberley
For breakfast,
lunch or a cup of tea and a slice of cake at the end of the walk, then the
Riverside Tea Rooms are hard to beat. Located on the bank of the River Arun, the
Riverside enjoys fantastic views across the river and south downs.
http://riversidetearooms.co.uk/ |
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The Black Rabbit,Offham
The Black Rabbit sits on the bank of
the River Arun, overlooking the water, with views as far as Arundel Castle. A Hall & Woodhouse pub, The Black Rabbit
offers fresh, unpretentious seasonal food and a range of real ales.
http://theblackrabbitarundel.co.uk/ |
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The walk
You can open this link to view the Amberley to Arundel
walk in a larger map window or to open the walk on your smartphone in Google Maps.
This is a fully interactive map that will enable you to follow the
route
as you walk and to access additional information such as bus timetables
and
pub or tea room websites, You can use Street View to check features on the route,
for example, to recognise the route on the ground and to identify where
the bus stops are or what to look out for. By activating your phone's GPS you can
identify your location and follow your progress as you move along the route.
Route Description
. 1.
Arriving
in Amberley by train, leave the station access road and turn left under the railway
bridge and towards the bridge over the river. The Bridge Inn is located in the road
to your left, sign-posted North Stoke, just before the bridge. The Riverside
Tea Rooms are situated on the river bank adjacent to the bridge.
Cross Houghton Bridge. The bridge was erected in 1875 but is built in the
medieval tradition. The traffic can be heavy so you should approach this with
caution and shelter in the recesses to let traffic pass.
At the far end of the bridge go through the kissing
gate on the left hand side to join the footpath along the river bank.
special scientific interest (SSSI)
and is known for its variety of birds and wild fowl
2. The path runs alongside the perimeter
wall of Arundel Park before moving slightly inland and rises up through the
woodland into a field. Follow the field boundary on your left as you approach
South Stoke Farm. Take a sharp right turn as the path passes between the brick
building and the field wall.
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| The perimeter wall of Arundel Park |
3. Turn left into the lane and then
immediately right to rejoin the bridleway. Cross the stile into the next meadow
and keep to the boundary on the right-hand edge.
4. At Foxes Oven Cottage the path once
again rises up on a chalk path through the woods. Join the lane at the top and
turn left and then right. The lane, which has been cut through the chalk banks
on either side, descends to the Black Rabbit at Offham.
5. Leaving the Black Rabbit, walk through
the car park to rejoin the river bank footpath. Follow this as it passes the
Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust on your right and then across the water
meadows back to Arundel.
6. As you approach Arundel the path goes
through a kissing gate, over a sluice and past a slipway. The path lthen eads you
into Arundel town centre. Turn left at the roundabout to cross the River Arun on the road
bridge. Follow the road straight ahead to join the A27 and the bus stops.
Continue ahead and cross the busy A27 at the pedestrian crossing for westbound
bus services and the railway station.
Getting There & Away
Amberley is
on the Arun Valley line, providing one service an hour in either direction,
Monday to Saturday. The Arun Valley Rail Line provides a link between the
Sussex coast and Gatwick Airport to London and beyond, crossing right through
the centre of the South Downs National Park. It provides rail access to Arundel,
Pulborough, Billingshurst, Horsham and Crawley and links to the south coast line
for services from Southampton, Portsmouth, Fareham, Havant, Littlehampton,
Bognor Regis, Worthing and Brighton.
Arundel, at
the end of the walk, is also on the Arun Valley line with two services an hour
in either direction.
Stagecoach Coastliner 700 provides regular services from Arundel to Brighton*,
Hove*, Shoreham*,
Worthing* and Littlehampton*, Monday – Sunday.
Compass Bus84/85 provides services from Arundel to Worthing*, Chichester*, Billingshurst and Pulborough* at various times through the day, Monday – Saturday.
* Bus services connect to the national
rail network at Brighton, Hove, Shoreham, Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester
and Pulborough.
For directions to arrive at the start of the walk (Amberley, West Sussex) by public transport
For directions on leaving the end of the walk (Arundel, West Sussex) by public transport
