1. Start the Pound Common car park off North Common Road. Exit via the height restriction barrier. Do not turn right along the first access drive but take the one to the right which starts a few yards beyond.

Follow this for 300 yards, then just before the house ahead turn left onto the Common and keep close to a right-hand fence. In 300 yards reach a crossroads with a fingerpost. Here you join the Chailey Link (CL).

2. Turn right. Go through a gate and into trees. Go over a stile. Emerge into a field and turn left to follow the left edge. At the corner follow it around to the right, still following the left edge beside Bineham Wood.

After a stile the path begins to narrow. Reach a gate at a T-junction and turn left. Follow the path into an open field, keeping left. Just before the next corner the CL turns right but you carry on through a gate to leave it for a while.

3. Pass a tree-covered pond on your right and keep left through a field. Go through a gate and keep left. In 100 yards go over a stile on your left and continue, now keeping right. The path leads to a field gate.

Beyond, keep going to a large footbridge. Continue through woodland. At a T-junction turn left. In 40 yards turn right, beside a pond. Proceed up the drive where St Peter’s Church will soon come into view. Follow the track out to the A275.

Turn right. In only 30 yards turn left along a driveway. Take a gate ahead into a large field where the footpath follows the right-hand edge. In 450 yards at the corner go through a metal gate, through trees and out onto a lane where you re-join the CL.

4. Turn left. Walk along the road. You will cross over a steam via Coppard’s Bridge. Just after a property on the left by a post box turn left up a footpath through trees. Go over a stile and up through a field keeping right. At the top go over a stile. Do not take a path immediately left but turn left onto a tarmac drive, then in 40 yards at a Y-junction veer right up a fenced drive towards a big house.

Once at the left side of the house, turn left over a stile into a field. Cross diagonally left. Exit via a stile. Follow the footpath ahead between trees. In about 200 yards it will arc right. In 150 yards it will join a wider forest track.

About 50 yards beyond turn left into woodland. The path meanders. At one point it crosses water by means of a planked bridge. When you reach a stile, the footpath narrows and exits the wood, now fenced in. Continue to a stile and onto a residential road.

5. Cross over to the grass ahead left and find a track through trees. Follow it onto a gravel drive and out to the A275. Turn left. In only 30 yards turn right to cross over the road and go through a gate to enter Memorial Common. At the first Y-junction keep right along the fence. Where a gate appears on the right turn left then immediately turn right.

This path later bends left. In 30 yards you reach a crossroads with a fingerpost. Turn right. In 300 yards cross over a wide track and continue ahead. The path will come to a junction, turn right and follow the track down to meet Beggar’s Wood Road.

6. Cross over directly opposite to enter Pound Common. Continue around gates into woodland. Pass a pond on your left. In 300 yards you return to the junction you were at earlier at point two and leave CL. Continue ahead to reach the access drive again. Turn right. Walk along the drive for 300 yards and you will end up back at the car park.