I start getting excited when we cross the bypass and head up to Old Boat Corner as that means we are nearly at the woods.
From the Boss: The woods at the top of the hill in the photo are Stanmer and the highest point is at Old Boat Corner. This is a staggered crossroads and there are at least three different versions of how the name came about. One is that there was at one time an old boat stood upright to act as a shelter for shepherds, another is that a sarsen stone near here looked like an upside-down boat, and the third is that "boat" is a corruption of the Saxon word "boke" meaning boundary.
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