[1][2] Ladies Mile is a remarkable survival of plateau chalk grassland on Downland where almost all such flattish sites have been allocated to modern farming.

Grazed chalk grassland is internationally significant and in this area of the world has been created by hundreds of years of sheep farming.

[1] Harebell, Sussex rampion flower, rockrose and yellow rattle are enjoyed by locals here and at midsummer there are still good numbers of glowworms.

Ladies Mile once was the site of a Bronze Age round houses and burial mounds, Celtic/Roman field systems, a Victorian era ride for women to exercise their horses, and during the Second World War had anti glider trenches.

As a result the ancient turf of Ladies Mile was preserved and there are lots of odd linear banks which are surviving fragments of its past.