Further along the lane you will pass some topiary of a rabbit on the right before going over a bridge and then up hill. At the end of the lane is the Cuckfield to Balcombe Road, Brook Street, turn right past an old red telephone box. Cross the road by Chapel Gallery on the other side of the road and go down the gravel track, which is signposted. The car park to the gallery is on the left as you enter the track. Head towards a wooden post on the right which is waymarked. Go down this track and not the one to the left. There is an old house on the right and then a property on the left with a stream on the right. You now have a choice of routes as a permissive path has been added. If you take the actual public footpath, go over the style next to a metal gate. Keep to the right of the field until you see a small gap in the hedge with a footpath sign the other side. Leave the field here and you will find you have met up with the other end of the permissive path, (picture 9). If you take the permissive path, which is probably easier, go over the style and head up the hill, keeping to the left of the field until you reach the style at the top. Go over this and bear left where you will join the route from the actual public footpath.
Turn left and keep to the left of the field which curves to the right before going into a wood. There is no signpost here but the path is clear. The path veers left passing a pond on the right and then crosses a wooden bridge as you leave the wood and go into a field, waymarked. Follow the hedge on the right and when it veers more sharply to the right, there is a footpath sign in the hedge on your right. Head straight across the field. The path is not clear here, but look ahead to the far side of the field and aim for the gap in the bracken, as this is where the style is. Go over and head towards the next field which has another style to go over or walk around to the left if the barbed wire fence is still down. Keep right going up the field with a larch plantation on the right. The path veers right between two horse chestnut trees and then across the field to the style next to a metal gate.
There is a signpost here pointing across the next field. You will see a pine tree ahead and the path goes to the right into the corner of the field. Go through the wooden gate and take the track straight ahead. There is a 4-way footpath sign here. Go through a wooden gate and keep straight ahead, signposted. After you pass a works yard on the left, you will be walking past Borde Hill gardens on the left. Continue past the entrance to the gardens, waymarked and then through a car park. In front of you is the Haywards Heath to Balcombe Road with a lodge house on the left. Turn left and walk along the road. Be very careful as the traffic moves fast along here. Turn right into Copyhold Lane, signposted to Ardingly. This stretch of road takes you over the London to Brighton railway line and it is about 0.5 miles before you take the footpath on the right through a metal gate. There is a footpath on the left which goes to Ardingly reservoir.
After about 30 metres, turn left and then bear left on the path, which is a permissive path, not signposted. This whole area has a lot of permissive paths and it also lies very wet in the Winter. Take the 3rd path on the right, about 15 metres from the public footpath, which has a bank on the left. Bear left along a track made by tractors and go up hill. Take the path on the right into the wood and follow this as it twists its way through the trees. When you meet another track going across the path, keep straight ahead. Ignore the next path to the right and go across an area of cut woodland. The path bears right at a line of oak trees. Keep these on the left with a field the other side. Watch out for a piece of wire which goes across the path as you start to face the field. The path takes you over a fallen oak tree. Keep the field fairly close on the left as the path isn’t always clear to follow.
You eventually come to the Haywards Heath to Ardingly College road. This can be busy at times with fast moving vehicles, so be careful crossing over, as you need to go down the drive towards Kenwards Farm opposite, signposted. When you reach some metal gates the path/track goes right, waymarked. Straight ahead is private. The track goes around the garden of the farm before turning right between two hedges with fields either side. You enter a wood taking the left-hand route downhill. It lies wet here for most of the year. As you start to go uphill there is a place on the right which sells eggs and has some stables. As you near the top of the hill there are some buildings on the right.
