Routes to Roots at Butts Brow
Butts Brow, Butts Lane, Willingdon, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN20
What's the connection between microscopic sea creatures, humans, flowers, butterflies and sheep? How does Butts Brow connect with it's neighbouring downland beauty spots? If you were a bee or butterfly where would your next meal be? Join our Changing Chalk host team and collaborative partners for walks and other activities in and around Butts Brow to find out more about how the unique and special landscape, heritage and ecology of the South Downs has both influenced human activity and been shaped by it....and what we can do to enhance and support it.
In Butts Lane Meadow, halfway up Butts Lane (W3W///hours.wisdom.candy):
10:00 Introduction to Chalk Grassland habitat and how volunteers are crucial to its survival
10.30-12:30 Discover the pollinating insects with Alice Parfitt from Buglife - learn how to tell a bee from a hoverfly, a damsel from a dragonfly and see what we can catch and eyeball up close in the sheltered sanctuary of the beautiful Butts Meadow a.k.a. Little Sheepdown
From Butts Brow car park, top of Butts Lane (W3W ///: sunsets.riches.vines)
11 – 12.30 Ancient routes & connections: Discover what connects sheep and smugglers, dew ponds and droveways, farming and flint with Katherine Buckland
13:30 -15:00 Roots and routes, Guided walk with National Trust archaeologist, Gary Webster and Chalk Life Ranger, Jennie Smith
15:30-16:30 View the Downs from a different angle - guided photography walk with Rachel Kiley (meet at Butts Brow car park)
Timings & Tours
- Saturday 07 September:
- 1000-1600 Check event description for workshop and walk timings
Location & directions
Butts Brow, Butts Lane, Willingdon, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN20
- Directions:
- Information and activities in and around Butts Brow car park. Nearest public transport is bus to Church Street or Coopers Hill, Willingdon.
- Contact on day:
- Jennie smith
- Telephone number:
- +447529224200
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
Accessibility details
Butts Brow car park is at the top of Butts Lane. Public transport to Willingdon village at the bottom of Butts Lane/Coopers Hill. Walks from the car park will not necessarily be wheelchair accessible all the way. An accessible temporary toilet will be installed in Butts Brow car park.
