Leave Arlington Church and exit the churchyard by the same gate as you entered (in the southwest corner). Double back on yourself to the small bridge through the hedge. But now cross the stream and walk straight ahead across the field in front of you to a stile. Continue to walk straight ahead across open, rough, damp grassland. The path eventually goes down the right-hand side of Stapley’s Farm and onto a tarmac road.

A Roman villa, settlement and industrial activity were found in the vicinity based on the clay seam which occurs here. Roman bricks can be seen in the walls of Arlington Church. Continue straight ahead down the road to the minor road which runs along the line of an old Roman road. On the opposite side of the road, slightly to the right, is a path through the scrub (before the bridge). The path leads down to the east bank of the Cuckmere River.

Follow the path as it bends along beside the river until it meets a hedge. Turn left and walk along the hedge (on your right), and then pass over the stile immediately in front of you into an old grass track. Turn right and go through the gate. Walk straight ahead, due south, keeping the hedge on your right. Walk the length of the hedge. At the end of the field, turn left and then right through a gate. Walk up the track with the hedge on your right up to the railway crossing. The railway runs along the same sandstone ridge that connects Selmeston to Berwick Station. Turn immediately left and walk along the railway line for about half a mile until you reach another stile and footpath that crosses the railway, but do not take it. Instead, turn left away from the railway track down to a hedge and stream. Cross the footbridge and follow the path immediately left between a fence and a hedge. Go over the stile at the end and onto a track. Turn left for about 50 yds until you reach a water treatment plant. Turn right just before it and take the path through a tall metal gate.

Follow the path along the field edge, through another gate, and then left up towards a farmhouse. The path emerges onto an open area of grassland, Wilmington Common, with a road running down the centre towards the crossroads at Wilmington. Turn right and walk along the edge of the common beside the hedge (you can alternatively walk on the road ahead) and past some cottages until you reach the pedestrian crossing on the A27. Walk up through the village. Towards the top of the village, where there is a pavement on the left, take the steps up into the churchyard.