A pensioner from Liss has gone the extra mile in support of a charity which cared for his late wife.

Peter Barwick decided to walk parts of the South Downs Way after a link-up with an HF Holiday group last year led to an epiphany in West Sussex.

The 81-year-old has since walked the entire 100-mile stretch from Winchester to Eastbourne twice over – and has raised more than £3,000 for the Rosemary Foundation in the process.

The pensioner also felt the eventual 200-mile fundraising trek was a fitting tribute to his wife, Rosemary, who received hospice at home care from the Petersfield charity and their amazing nurses before she passed away last May.

The couple had a passion for walking so Peter couldn’t think of a better way to raise funds for a terrific cause.

He said: “The Rosemary Foundation were fantastic in caring for her at home, I can’t praise them enough.

“She passed away last May. A while later I got to do a walking trek with HF Holidays and on the way back from Storrington I stopped to clear my head.

“I had walked a little bit of the South Downs Way and thought ‘why don’t I walk the whole lot?’

“At that point I had no idea I would do it twice over.”

Peter didn’t walk the SDW in one go, but would park at a point on the way and return.

His longest trek was just under eight miles while he stayed overnight in East Sussex to complete the final sections around Lewes, Beachy Head and Eastbourne.

He may walk the North Downs Way in the future, but for the meantime he hopes his walking will translate into pounds for the Rosemary Foundation.

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