The acclaimed cycling writer offered her insight: "A fine rolling saunter is along the narrow, winding lanes that lie to the lee of the South Downs southwest and southeast of Midhurst.

"While that 'ode to a road', the A272, sucks up the vehicles rushing between Petworth and Petersfield, the lanes that twist and turn through such places as Selham, Heyshott, Cocking, Didling, Turkey Island, Quebec, Goose Green, Dumpford, Ingrams Green and the Hartings are comparatively empty of cars."