Seven Sisters Ultimate Guide
The complete 24-page guide plus a live no-signal trail map — and an optional GPS audio tour of the whole walk
The complete 24-page guide plus a live no-signal trail map — and an optional GPS audio tour of the whole walk
The Seven Sisters Ultimate Guide is a downloadable PDF walking guide to the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs in East Sussex, plus the Trail Companion — a live offline map that works with no mobile signal and shows your GPS position on the cliffs. It covers all seven named cliffs west to east (Haven Brow, Short Brow, Rough Brow, Brass Point, Flagstaff Point, Bailey's Hill, and Went Hill Brow), a schematic map of every car park, station and viewpoint between Seaford and Eastbourne, four graded walking routes with elevation profiles, tide and beach-access windows for Cuckmere Haven and Birling Gap, a detailed parking strategy for Birling Gap car park and Exceat, a month-by-month light calendar and seasonal planner, accommodation and food guidance, three ready-made day plans, and a full safety and packing section. An optional GPS audio tour add-on is available for the Trail Companion: 26 narrated stops on the geology, wildlife and history of the coast that play automatically as you walk, offline, in either direction — £5.99 alone or £9.99 bundled with the guide. Written by Alen Marrick from first-hand field research along the South Downs Way coastal section between Seaford and Eastbourne.
What you get
Drawing on his own first-hand field notes, Alen put everything into a single 24-page, magazine-quality offline PDF — designed to stay useful on the cliff when there's no signal.
Live offline trail map (works with no signal)
The Trail Companion: your GPS blue dot moving along the cliffs even with zero reception. Save it before you go; it shows the full route, the riverside alternative, every cliff, cafe, toilet, car park, bus stop and safety point. Add it to your home screen like an app.
All 7 cliffs — named, measured, explained
Heights, geology, erosion rate, and the cliff most visitors never find.
Four graded routes + the coast, mapped
Full traverse (21.9km), the classic walk (6.5km), the Birling Gap loop, and the flat valley path for families — plus a map of every access point.
Tide windows & beach access
The only safe window (low tide ±2h), the 83 steps at Birling Gap, swimming safety, and where to check the day's times.
Parking strategy — timed, with alternatives
Arrival windows that avoid the queues, plus three free alternatives locals use.
Month-by-month seasonal planner
Crowds, wildflowers, weather windows, and when the light turns the cliffs gold.
Free guide vs Ultimate Guide
The free guide is a 2-page taster — one route and the basic tide rule, enough to get you to the cliffs. The Ultimate Guide is the full system: about twelve times the pages and four times the routes, plus everything below the line the free version simply doesn’t cover.
| Free 2 pages |
Ultimate 24 pages |
|
|---|---|---|
| Cliff names + heights | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic tide rule | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live offline map (your GPS position) | — | ✓ |
| Graded walking routes | 1 | 4 |
| Turn-by-turn + elevation profiles | — | ✓ |
| The whole coast, mapped | — | ✓ |
| Parking strategy + local alternatives | — | ✓ |
| Tide windows + swimming safety | — | ✓ |
| Month-by-month light calendar | — | ✓ |
| Seasonal planner | — | ✓ |
| Geology & erosion notes | — | ✓ |
| Where to stay & eat | — | ✓ |
| 3 ready-made day plans | — | ✓ |
| Extended safety & packing | — | ✓ |
The free guide gets you to the trailhead. The Ultimate Guide gets you through the whole day — which car park to aim for and when, the only safe window to be on the beach, the route that fits your group, and what to do if the weather turns. For £4.99, once — less than a day’s parking at the cliffs, and unlike the parking, it never expires.
Seven Sisters
Ultimate Guide
24-page PDF + live offline map · Instant access · No expiry
30-day money-back guarantee. If it's not what you hoped, reply to your download email and Alen will refund you in full — no questions asked.
Written by Alen Marrick — first-hand field notes from the cliffs, updated for current access conditions.
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Included · New
The Seven Sisters is notorious for bad reception — right where you most need to know which way to go. Your guide now includes the Trail Companion: an offline map that shows your live GPS position on the cliffs even with no signal. Your phone’s GPS works from satellites, so the blue dot keeps moving when Google Maps gives up.
Activate it from the link in your purchase email (the QR code in your PDF points you there) — open it once on your phone while you still have signal, and it’s ready for the walk.
Live GPS on the cliffs
No signal needed
After the walk · £2.99
A personalised completion certificate — your name in gold script, your route and date, and all seven summits drawn to their real heights. Print-ready PNG, generated in seconds.
See the certificateWhy walkers trust this guide
Every route, cliff and car park in the guide was checked on foot. It is Alen's own first-hand field notes — not content stitched together from other guides.
Access conditions, path closures and parking are reviewed each season. Your download link always serves the latest edition — no reprint, no extra cost.
No sponsored content, no filler, no corporate voice. Just the detail you need and the context to use it — and a 30-day money-back guarantee behind every copy.
Inside the PDF
Every section is laid out for quick scanning in bright light, on a phone screen, with cold hands.
01
Named west to east — Haven Brow to Went Hill Brow — each with its height in metres, what the chalk tells you about its age, and the viewpoints that make the photography worthwhile.
02
Full traverse (21.9km), the classic walk (6.5km), the Birling Gap loop, and the flat Cuckmere valley path for families. Turn-by-turn, with elevation profiles — works without a signal.
03
The safe beach window at Cuckmere Haven and Birling Gap, swimming safety, and a schematic map of every car park, station, café and viewpoint between Seaford and Eastbourne.
04
Birling Gap, Exceat, and Seaford. Arrival times that avoid the queues by month. Three alternatives locals use when all the main car parks are full by 10am.
05
What to expect each month — wildflower bloom windows, beach swimming conditions, typical crowd levels, and the months when the light turns the chalk faces gold at 5pm.
06
The gaps where you can descend or call for help. What to do if the weather closes in above Rough Brow. The one rule about cliff edges that the NT doesn't spell out clearly enough.
Written by
Every cliff, every season, in every light. The Ultimate Guide is not assembled from other guides — it is Alen's own first-hand field notes, condensed to what actually matters when you're standing at the trailhead at 9am wondering whether to start.
SevenSisters.co.uk launched in 2019 as a deliberately small, independent site. No SEO filler, no sponsored content, no corporate voice. Just the detail you need and the context to use it.
A PDF optimised for phone screens — designed to be readable at arm's length, in direct sunlight. Save it to Apple Books, Google Drive, or any PDF reader before you leave. Works completely offline.
The free guide covers the basic route and tide rule — it's the quick reference you save the night before. The Ultimate Guide is the full system: 24 designed pages with the coast mapped, four graded routes with profiles, parking strategy, the light calendar and seasonal planner, where to stay and eat, three ready-made day plans, the extended safety and packing section — plus the Trail Companion live offline map. About four times the detail. The GPS audio tour is available on top as an optional add-on.
It's a live map included with your guide that works with no mobile signal — which matters, because reception on the Seven Sisters is poor. After buying, tap the activation link in your purchase email (the QR code in your PDF takes you to it) to unlock the map on your phone, tap Save for offline once while you still have signal, and add it to your home screen. It then shows your live GPS position on the cliffs along the full Seaford-to-Eastbourne route and the riverside alternative, with every cliff, café, toilet, car park, bus stop and safety point marked. Your phone's GPS works from satellites, so your position keeps updating even with no signal.
The GPS audio tour is an optional add-on that lives inside the Trail Companion map. Tap Start the audio tour once, and 26 narrated stops play automatically as you reach them between Seaford and Eastbourne — the geology of the chalk, the wildlife, and the history, from the lost medieval village of Exceat and the smugglers of Crowlink to the lighthouse that was moved back from the cliff edge. About 25 minutes of listening in all, written by Alen Marrick. It works in both directions, plays offline once you've saved the map, and every stop can also be read as text on screen. £5.99 on its own (the offline map is included), or £9.99 bundled with the Ultimate Guide — and if you already own the guide, you can add it any time for £5.99.
It doesn't. The download link is permanent. The PDF itself has no DRM — save it anywhere, share it with your walking partner.
Access conditions, path closures, and known changes are reviewed each season, and the download link always serves the latest edition.
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Yes — there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. If the guide isn't what you hoped, just reply to your download email within 30 days and Alen will refund you in full, no questions asked.
Don’t wing it on the day
First-hand field notes, a live offline map that works with no signal, the coast mapped, parking strategy, and four graded routes — all in your pocket, for less than a coffee.
Instant download · PDF · Works offline · No expiry
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