Editing Brighton and Hove (section)

==== Patcham downland ====
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[[File:Ewe_Bottom_from_the_Sussex_Border_Path_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1748020.jpg|thumb|left|Ewe Bottom from the Sussex Border Path]]
[[File:Sheep_on_Tegdown_Hill_-_geograph.org.uk_-_699188.jpg|thumb|Sheep on Tegdown Hill]]
[[File:Southwestward_view_along_Ladies_Mile,_Patcham_(February_2014).JPG|thumb|Southwestward view along Ladies Mile, Patcham]]
The Downland to the north of Patcham leads up to [[Ditchling Beacon]] and the western end of the [[Clayton to Offham Escarpment]]. '''Tegdown Hill''' is the next hill to the west of the downland Ditchling Road. A remarkable "ring barrow" survives ({{gbmappingsmall|TQ 313 101}}) on its brow, together with the slight mounds of two other bowl barrows. Tegdown ring barrow has been described as "probably the best of this type in the county".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sussex Barrows |first=L.V. |last=Grinsell |journal=Sussex Archaeological Collections |volume=75 |year=1934 |page=224 |doi=10.5284/1086699 |doi-access=free}}</ref> It consists of a circular bank with a ditch and a flattish interior. It lies just south of a big dried up dew pond. From Tegdown you can see the three [[Iron Age]] camps of [[Hollingbury Castle]], [[Ditchling Beacon]], and the [[Devil's Dyke, Sussex|Devil's Dyke]]'''.''' To the north of the city boundary is the long [[Ditchling]] parish.

The Mid Sussex track of the Sussex Border Path starts at the A27 roundabout and the eastern track takes you up '''Ewebottom Hiil''' leaving '''Scare Hill''' to its west, passing the [[Chattri, Brighton|'''Chattri''']] to the east and on to '''Holt Hill''' and the [[Pyecombe]] parish. The western track takes you to Waterhall across the A23.

Those walking from [[Patcham]] towards Standean farm descend the hill into '''Ewe Bottom''' and have the pleasure of the intact, old Tegdown pastures to their right, where the steepest slope and the lynchets have fine chalk downland flowers. Opposite the slope is the mouth of '''Deep Bottom''' ({{Gbmappingsmall|TQ 303 105}}), the southerly slope of which is a colourful old pasture site with abundant rockrose and which rises up to the [[Chattri, Brighton|'''Chattri''']]. In autumn there are [[bolete]]s and several old meadow [[waxcaps]] and a [[Clavaria fragilis|fairy club]] fungus.<ref name=":2" />

To the south of the A27 and on the western edge of Patcham is [[Ladies Mile, Brighton|Ladies Mile]] Down ({{Gbmappingsmall|TQ 318 093}}), which has designated as a [[Local nature reserve]]. The area is a remarkable survival of plateau chalk grassland on Downland, where almost all such flattish sites have been destroyed by modern farming. The ancient turf has preserved lots of odd linear banks, which are surviving fragments of an [[Iron Age]] and Romano-British [[Lynchet|lynchetted field]] system. The banks once stretched across the line of the A27 bypass, beyond which one or two more fragments also survive. At the eastern end of the Down, is a [[Bronze Age]] [[burial mound]] recognisable as a low, grassy tump. The area is rich with summer flowers. [[Harebell]], [[Round-headed rampion|Sussex rampion]] flower, rockrose, and [[Yellow Rattle|yellow rattle]] are enjoyed by locals here and at midsummer there are still good numbers of [[glowworm]]s. Later in the summer months, the violet-blue of [[Devil's bit scabious|devil's-bit scabious]] and the powder-blue lesser scabious radiate.