Automatically created from a GPX file - 2023-08-12 Crowhurst viaduct.gpx
We followed the path of the dismantled Crowhurst to Bexhill railway line today. From our starting point @thepelhambexhill , which is opposite the site of the old Sidley railway station and was a hotel for visitors, we headed along through combe valley, past the site of the old Crowhurst viaduct which had 17 arches, 9 million bricks and spanned the entire combe valley marsh. It was demolished in the sixties. We looked at a really old map I have of the area from 150 years ago when there would have been steam engines running along the line. We walked to the Crowhurst nature reserve, quarry wood, which was a sandstone quarry at one point where we found a cave in the cliff face!!. The weather was perfect, and everyone really enjoyed the day.
