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Butchershole


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About Butchershole

This small car park provides access to the attractive eastern edge of Friston, and for the more energetic, access up onto the downland grass areas. Early risers will see the local race horses training and listen to the numerous sky larks.

How to get there:

Butchershole is in Friston Forest. Friston is the nearest town or village.

Access off the B2105, approximately 1 mile north of Friston village.

OS Grid Reference: TV 555 995
For details of public transport visit http://www.transportdirect.info

Other places to go in Friston Forest

HORSERIDER ON FOREST TRAIL

Facilities:

Parking ChargeInformation

Activities

Picnic
Walking Butchers Trudge
Cycling A 7 mile mountain bike route leaves from this car park.
HorseRiding.gif Horse riding is by permit only. Box parking is available. Permits are available through TROT on 01622 735599 or www.tollrides.org.uk
Orienteering Control points are scattered around the area, the map is available from Seven Sisters Country Park Visitor Centre on site.

Contact:

South East England Recreation Officer


User Comments

Name: Anonymous (1 Star)
15/Aug/2010
How can a walk through these forest trees
justify an extortionate £1 minimum parking charge? It has no facilities not even a toilet. All there is here is a picnic table, one dog waste bin and (of course)a pay meter, in order to take money for nothing. I took a short walk with my dog and this is the filthiest piece of woodland i've come across - It's like trudging through a sewer. My walking shoes are ruined and my dog needed a bath. I've visited forests up and down the country - all were free of charge - and Butchershole has been the most unpleasant, and makes an absurd charge for the privilege. Of course you can't force people to clean up after their dogs in a forest, but there is no encouragement to clean up either - for the price we have to pay to take a walk in this wood, there could at least be, for example, dog bins provided along the paths as an incentive, at least. And how about some toilets? Then the parking fee might carry some justification for management fees. I would be intrigued to know what the charges are for, as there is nothing to show for it! There's not any evidence of management not even an attempt at keeping the narrower paths clear of bramble and nettles, which hit you in the face as you walk - Not that I would normally care about
these things, but I do when i'm being charged money for it.
Name: Rob
19/May/2009
Nice web. So I can list you, can you tell me the cost to park at the car parks? Then I can give you a link.
Rob
Robin Green
Corporate Assets
Robin.Green@wealden.gov.uk
01323 443241

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