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N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 345 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Run w/Devon. Parked Bo Peep car park. Wilmington Hill, Firle Beacon loop. | ZacField | 24/02/2024 |
Before starting our day two South Downs Way | nickywood1 | 28/09/2023 |
On south downs way | emily | 29/03/2023 |
Day 5 on the South Downs Way. After negotiating the floods in Alfriston took the inland route of the South Downs Way which enabled me to bag this hill. 5 min walk off the trail to the trig. | fosal29 | 18/11/2022 |
From car park in Alfriston, NE along SDW and then to trig point/hp. Descent down NE ridge to the Wealdway and along to the base of the Long Man, an impressive chap close up. With Gillian. | richard69 | 07/10/2022 |
Lovely 13 mile circuit from Crowlink to Wilmington and back via Willingdon Hill, Coombe Hill and Wilmington Hill. Solo. | ytfckent | 31/08/2022 |
KF A circuit of the Long Man from Wilmington Priory | crazy | 16/08/2022 |
With Jo, from The Street car park. Sunny, cold in wind, good visibility. | amblerbob | 02/04/2022 |
Sunny but blustery day for walking, nice gentle walk up the hills with easy to follow paths, easy to park in Alfriston. | JazDisney | 19/03/2022 |
With Firle Beacon. 
 
From Firle Beacon car park 468059. Followed the South Downs Way on and end to end walk over Firle Beacon, through Alfriston and up Wilmington Hill, then off North down to the Weald Way and the path that leads past the Long Man of Wilmington to the Car Park in Wilmington. 8.9 miles easy walking, just over 3hrs moving time. | JulieB | 12/02/2022 |
Beautiful winter sun. Walked around the bottom of the Long Man then back up from the Western Side. A fantastic walk. | sconnolly01 | 08/01/2022 |
Berwick to Eastbourne. | Smudge | 30/12/2021 |
Parked at the car park for the Wilmington Man which is easily found and fits quite a number of cars. Well signed route up to the summit taking in wonderful views of the man himself. | jamiequackers | 20/12/2021 |
From Wilmington village. On ROW to Long Man then up on slanting path above. Came down the NE ridge to make a circuit. | Mark Sims | 23/09/2021 |
SOTA | mike.hartley | 31/05/2021 |
Struggled to get car on car park because of low clearance and so many bumps. Quick walk up large path and up to trig point. Ran down. When I got back to car park an extremely famous model was doing a professional photo shoot on the car park which was totally bizarre considering the state of the parking area | ketzster | 31/03/2021 |
From small, uneven CP at TQ532032, crossed road and followed wide South Downs Way uphill. We followed the curving route of the Way, departing to head straight ahead as we passed through a gate while the Way curved to the right. Proceeded over lovely turf to TP, the high point being 5m beyond on obvious raised ground. Fabulous views west, and east over remaining South Downs to Eastbourne. Return by reverse route. Drive away north and look back for good view of The Walking Man. | Dartmoorman | 17/10/2020 |
Parked Lullington Court. Road and FP back towards Alfriston then turned up FP to the hill. Visited long barrow and round barrow on Windover Hill. Bagged top (w Eoin & Tiarnán) and down path through Lullington Heath NNR. Joined Geraldine & Clodagh for dinner at Plough and Harrow, Litlington. | Pete West | 13/09/2020 |
My favourite hill of the day (1 out of 5 bagged today). Outstanding views, and added benefit of free car parking and the Long Man. Can see the wind farm out to the sea. | mazz | 16/08/2020 |
Parked at Priory car park and as I was a bit tight for time I jogged along the trail opposite to the base of the Long Man. Then a leg pumping burst straight up the steeper part of the hill gained height quickly followed by a gentler approach to the trig and high point just beyond. Would like to have had a little more time to relax and explore the area. | Gerry the Ranger | 07/08/2020 |
2.5 mile circular from car park at Wilmington, followed path to The Holt woods and the followed track marked on map which is actually a path up to summit, descended via the Long Man back to car park, a few people about, far reaching views on this sunny but very windy day. Later that day bagged Mount Caburn, Cliffe Hill, Wolstonbury Hill and Chanctonbury Ring. | DanTrig | 05/07/2020 |
With Peter Thirkettle | psburgess | 27/06/2020 |
Easy walk up from Firle carpark. | Midnight | 11/01/2020 |
3/6 Marilyn Day. Followed the South Downs Way from the car park to the west, then along track on the edge of the ridge above The Long Man. A round trip of 4.6 km in just over 1 hour. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 27/10/2019 |
Easy route up | Stevooo | 15/09/2019 |
Enjoyable short circular walk from Priory car park, briefly interrupted by heavy shower.With Oscar and Bridget. | catman | 18/08/2019 |
Circuit Southease to Seaford. | deknyff | 18/08/2019 |
With D | 1921 | 08/08/2019 |
Circular walk from Long Man carpark. Really enjoyed this one | Longwojo | 03/08/2019 |
SDW100 | keri_runs | 08/06/2019 |
Part of South Downs Marathon | benwloudon | 12/05/2019 |
25 mile round from Alfriston. | atreides7887 | 28/04/2019 |
With Val. Parked at South Downs Way car park to the west of the summit and easy walk to summit and back. Weather fine | mike.hoult | 18/03/2019 |
With Mike | Val Deisler | 18/03/2019 |
From the Long Man car park near Wilmington. | NormanW | 15/02/2019 |
Nice 7 mile walk around the Long Man of Wilmington | jmistry86 | 17/11/2018 |
My final English Marilyn | David Gradwell | 08/11/2018 |
From 'sump wrecker' car park at TQ 531032, then short deviation from South Downs Way. | Isbjorn | 07/11/2018 |
Paths from village | Topographer57 | 07/08/2018 |
From CP TQ531032 up over windover hill then on to summit with elizyanne | GmacT | 08/07/2018 |
Here for the trigpoint but made sure I stood on the high spot too! 
 
Parked at the Long Man and Priory car park in Wilmington (N50° 48.977' E0° 11.406'), lovely spot. Then walked firstly up to the Long Man and then up to the ridge to the trigpoint. Lovely trig and walk. | thejackrustles | 22/04/2018 |
With K from West across top of Long Man | Ashley | 08/03/2018 |
8/11 From the car park resembling the Somme to west by track and path above The Long Man. | SS | 09/02/2018 |
7/11M from cp near wilmington for the long man. | robertphillips | 05/11/2017 |
GMn | Idris | 28/10/2017 |
3rd South Downs Marilyn of the day. Circular walk round Long Man from Wilmington car park. | prwild | 26/10/2017 |
Lovely walk to beach head...18 miles | ejjohnstone | 08/10/2017 |
Walk up from Wilmington on very hot day. With Cal, Fred and Bob. | Ham and Skate | 13/08/2017 |
Wilmington hill is quite nice, but the day can be made even better by starting from Alfriston, climbing Wilmington, Willingdon, Beachy Head (crowded), and Belle Tout. The best part of the walk is the continuation over the Seven Sisters, with superb views from the glorious white cliffs. Pub lunch in Jevington and tea and fizzy pop at the Belle Tout cafe were very welcome, given the blistering heat. | Gill | 05/07/2017 |
From Alfriston to Jevington. | twg27 | 11/06/2017 |