Where In Sussex

I have taken a couple of nice rides in the last week fromHartfield along the Forest Way to Crawley Down and in the other direction to Groombridge and on to Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

The Forest Way (which becomes the Worth Way beyond East Grinstead) is a former railway line along the north of the Ashdown Forest.  At Groombridge the railway was not closed until 1985 and is now the preserved Spa Valley Railway, so I had to take the road to Tunbridge Wells.  An enjoyable ride, but you might want to have your tyres a bit softer, as the compacted ballast is a bit of a bone shaker!

The picture of the railway is the Spa Valley in Groombridge.  Sometime between the railway closing and the preserved railway opening, somebody built a house on it, hence the kink!