11 of the best summer walks in West Sussex, with photos and videos to guide you

I have walked in snow, in mud, in sunshine and in showers but always with a song in my heart and a smile on my face. So, even if our summer doesn’t deliver the sunshine we might hope for, it doesn’t need to stop you going out and enjoying the outdoors. Most of my walks are accessible by bus, as that is my preferred mode of transport.

Warren Hill – Sleepy Hollow – The Sanctuary – Sandgate Park nature walk

Findon – Cissbury Ring – Storrington Rise

Ferring – Highdown Hill – Angmering, circular walk with fabulous views and pub halfway

Swanbourne Lake – Hiorne Tower (featured in Doctor Who) – Historic Arundel

Storrington Rise – Cissbury Ring – Findon village, with fabulous views over Worthing

Ferring – Kingston Gorse circular with cafés and toilets

River Adur – Downs Link – Bramber Castle, A Walk For All and beyond

The Windmill Trail: Circular walk to Halnaker Windmill and Boxgrove Priory via holloway with magical tunnel

Enjoy Sullington Warren and find the 'dragon' by the River Stor

Clapham Wood circular: Walk in one of the spookiest woods in Britain

Walk to America Wood in Ashington and Capite Wood on the Wiston Estate, with view over the South Downs north of Worthing

9. Sullington Warren and River Stor walk

Enjoy Sullington Warren before finding the 'dragon' by the River Stor Photo: Elaine Hammond

10. Clapham Wood walk

Finding bluebells in Clapham Wood on my circular walk filled with birdsong Photo: Elaine Hammond

11. Ashington and Wiston Estate Walk

Muddy but elated on my walk to America Wood in Ashington and Capite Wood on the Wiston Estate, with views over the South Downs north of Worthing Photo: Elaine Hammond