July Sunday Outdoors in Balcombe, West Sussex

This is a walk full of small delights: a nature reserve and lake with Japanese pagoda down by the stream below the gardens and park of Nymans with its part-ruined manor house; a relatively gourmet inn for lunch in Slaugham (pronounced 'Slaffam'); a churchyard in Slaugham with an 800-year-old yew tree some 10 metres in circumference; the ruins of Slaugham Manor; then a walk down to the River Ouse - suddenly three Roman columns and an arch in a field in the middle of nowhere - and later up through fields and woods to the fine old village of Balcombe.