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We spotted this field whilst on the Bepton Road and I thought the downs would make a good backdrop to the Barley field.
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The crops were ripening nicely when we walked part of the South Downs near Bepton back in the summer.
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Taken on the morning of 22 November in the sunshine after many days of thick cloud. This is a shot of New Pond on the SW edge of Midhurst, West Sussex and apparently not well known. It is off a little used narrow lane off Bepton Road. Mostly the views of the Pond are obscured by trees apart from the occasional fishing platform.
The shot was taken with a Sony A77ii with a Tamron 18-200mm at 18mm. I. took 3 shots for HDR and processed with Photomatix 6. I used Topaz Clarity to add more detail. I also used Topaz Denoise. A slight vignette was used. The processing had the effect of increasing contrast and saturation.
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Thought wonderful flowing bulbous shapes of these roots.
Almost seem alive !
Bepton churchyard, West Sussex.
The track from Bepton Down. The red-brown carpet on the floor is the leaf cases from the beech leaves – looks like Autumn but it's the beginning of Summer.
A little gem tucked right away in the woods.
"Built in 1880, the church was built by William Townley Mitford – the Member of Parliament for Midhurst – and dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels. Back in the 1870s religious morals and education were considered vital for the rural communities in the Sussex Weald, and many buildings were erected to serve as both schoolrooms and places of worship.
At one time the school had 60 pupils and 3 teachers, but by the end of the First World War the building was falling into neglect and closed as a school in 1925. For a while the building still operated as a church, but in 1959 it was abandoned completely" (with thanks to the Bepton Ranger for the bio).
Best bluebell woods in West Sussex
This year we’ve seen some pretty impressive displays of bluebells. I’ve been told that the wet winter and spring has helped to produce lots of healthy plants, and that the lack of rain over the last few weeks has created the perfect finish. Bluebells aren’t very sturdy and the heavy showers that we normally get in April usually make them collapse.
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen lots of good patches of bluebells in Bepton, and in the woods around Midhurst and Stedham and Graffham. The bluebells at Benbow are always very impressive, but I’ve never found the best bluebell woods until I stumbled across these at the weekend. The smell and the colour was intoxicating.
Leave a comment below if you’d like to know more. Flowering season is nearly over for 2020 but this site must be centuries old, they’ll be there next year.
Can't beat a July sunset... this one is in West Sussex in the village of Bepton. Those are the South Downs on the left, stretching away into the distance.
Check the single white flower that's growing in the photo. It's a White Helleborine, a type of orchid. Not especially rare, but a good find — even though I hadn't realised it was there until after I opened this photo in Photoshop!
Morning mist at Didling near Midhurst in West Sussex. Celebrating the unseasonably warm weather in February. Climate change? Probably...
From a couple of years back.
A church has stood on this site since at least Saxon times, with a Saxon wooden church mentioned in the Domesday Book, and the Saxon stone font is still in place.
A herd of moo-cows mooching about on the South Downs in the evening sunshine. Rumour is the local dairy herd is about to be disbanded due to falling milk prices so might not see cattle like this on the Downs in future.
So this afternoon I quickly ran to the top of Bepton Down. Here's the view towards Midhurst, submerged under a cushion of mist shrouding the Rother Valley. Blue sky and uninterrupted views from The South Downs, cold and grey down below.
A strange, low-lying blanket of cloud sat stubbornly above the tree-line preventing a sunny dawn.
Over farmland between Bepton and Minsted in West Sussex.
On a grey day, D6555 waits to leave Midhurst goods yard with the train to Pulborough which by 1964, was operating only three times a week. Easy to see why the line closed shortly after. I expect the crew enjoyed their day out, trundling along the Rother Valley on this picturesque line.
The track on the extreme left of the photo is the line to Petersfield, passing over the Bepton Road bridge and through the LSWR station with its small goods yard, disused by this time.
Midhurst, West Sussex. 1964. © David Hill
It's back to school this week, which means a few misty mornings scanning the fields for good-looking trees.
Another photo from last week's fog-day. This is the view from Bepton Down on The South Downs, looking across the Rother Valley in the vague direction of Petersfield. Up on The Downs it was blue skies! Down in the valley it was grey gloom...
Last tie I went to Bepton I was so amazed by the Gannets that i forgot to get a picture of a Fulmar, I wanted to make up for it this time.
Camera: Polaroid SX-70
film: Polaroid SX-70 film
Autumn Polaroid week 2020 #5
13th century west tower
St Mary's church
Bepton
West Sussex
October 2020
Here's the view from Heyshott Down first thing this morning - looking across the Cocking Gap (seriously I didn't make that up!) towards Bepton. The buildings in the foreground are Horley Farm on Bell Lane and my house is somewhere behind this in the gloom!
Glorious August sunshine on The South Downs and mist in the valley below. Feels like Autumn is on the way...
It’s been several months since Harvey has been out for a proper (long) walk… having been scared to death by the local shooting fraternity. But, after setting out at 6:30 on a rainy Saturday morning, we finally managed it!
Here he is on the stone bridge at Minsted on his way back home after a wet April walk through the deserted fields and woodland between Bepton and Minsted. The walk passed without incident (or gunfire)… which is exactly what we needed.
I was delighted to find this at the river's edge (little things please little minds). Spring is upon us!
A magnificent magnolia dominates this springtime scene at the 12th/13th century St Mary’s Church at Bepton in West Sussex. The village sits under the north side of the South Downs.
West Sussex. April 2023. © David Hill
Cold yet frosty start to the day! Here's the view across the fields in Bepton, near Midhurst in West Sussex.
I don't know what's so great about it. All it ever does is rain outdoors. But it does bring with it some magnificently mean looking skies.
Harvey in the long, lush grass in ripening rapeseed fields between the Sussex villages of Bepton, Didling, Ingrams Green and Minsted.
This is the path from Didling/Bepton to Minsted. It's been turned into a mud bath by tractors engaged in logging activity nearby. We won't be heading this way again for a while that's for sure.
I don't know if there will be many more photos of Harvey out and about. He has been traumatised by months of relentless pheasant shooting going on EVERY day all around us. He now refuses to go for his walks.
Two lovely ladies, resplendent in their wellington boots, march across the top of a windswept Didling Hill. Along the South Downs Way in West Sussex.
Autumn mist across the Rother Valley. Midhurst, Treyford and Bepton are down there somewhere! As seen at dawn from Beacon Hill Fort – a Bronze Age or early Iron Age hill fort.
I'm easily distracted on my way to work. This beautiful oak tree in the morning mist has been nibbled flat by sheep near the ground. Autumn's just round the corner...