Just off the M23 on the southern outskirts of Crawley in West Sussex, Green Flag award winning Tilgate Park boasts stunning lakes, lawns and gardens, and miles of woodland and bridleways for long leisurely walks.
Roosthole, St Leonard’s Forest
Roosthole (some say Roost Hole and others say RoostHole*) is an area of St Leonard's Forest, an ancient woodland between Horsham and Crawley in West Sussex, which forms part of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and consists of just over 700 acres of mixed deciduous and conifer woodland, as well as some areas of open, wooded heath.
Cowdray Forest (and Worth Forest)
Cowdray Forest is part of the Paddockhurst Estate, a privately-owned woodland which allows some access to the public. Here, you'll find a grid plantation of different types of trees so there's quite a lot of variety to be had on any walk as you pass from section to section. Cowdray Forest adjoins Worth Forest, although there's nothing to tell you when you pass from one into the other.