Green coastal walks

Best for solar-charged travel

This circuit of the shoreline and cornfields of Chichester Harbour is packed with wild birds. Views are wide and breezy, there's a stunning beach halfway round and a solarpowered boat for a post-walk treat.

Difficulty ● ● ●

Duration 11 miles

Route From West Itchenor, walk three-and-a-half miles to East Head; along West Wittering Beach for one-and-a-half miles; up Jolliffe Road past Webb's Farm over Elms Lane, then B2179; by Redlands and Sheepwash Lane to Itchenor.

How long? Four hours

Green credentials Preview your walk, or savour it in retrospect, on a boat trip from Itchenor jetty on Chichester Harbour Conservancy's solar powered boat Solar Heritage. She also sails from Emsworth, as does Victorian oyster smack Terror (01243 513275, www.conservancy.co.uk).

Look out for... West Wittering's superb three mile-long Blue Flag beach,
the best one in Sussex (www.westwitteringbeach.co.uk).

Where to stay Nunnington Farm Camping Site, West Wittering (01243 514013, www.camping-in-sussex.com); from £16. Clean, friendly and family orientated - dogs welcome, too. Chichester Harbour, West Sussex

How to get there A27, A286 towards the Witterings; signs to Itchenor. Bus 52, 53 Chichester-Witterings (www.stagecoachbus.com/south); 150
from Selsey to Itchenor (www.compass-travel.co.uk).

OS Maps OS Explorer 120; Landranger 197. Click here for the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map Service to see your chosen area online.

For more info Chichester TIC (01243 775888, www.visitchichester.org).