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  • Thumbnail for Downland
    Downland, chalkland, chalk downs or just downs are areas of open chalk hills, such as the North Downs. This term is used to describe the characteristic...
    11 KB (1,330 words) - 20:37, 5 August 2024
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    The Weald and Downland Living Museum (known as the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum until January 2017) is an open-air museum in Singleton, West Sussex...
    47 KB (5,092 words) - 11:07, 29 August 2024
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    Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east. The Downs are bounded on the northern...
    26 KB (2,989 words) - 08:15, 3 May 2024
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    Brighton and Hove consists of many districts, a stretch of coast and some downland areas. Just to the south of Brighton and Hove in the English Channel is...
    93 KB (8,841 words) - 09:57, 27 September 2024
  • renamed Kirovograd. Scrapped in September 1968 in West Germany. Emire Downland was a 683 GRT hopper ship which was built by Fleming & Ferguson Ltd, Paisley...
    39 KB (5,968 words) - 12:06, 15 March 2024
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    Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, separated from the main part of the city by downland and the Brighton Racecourse. The name Woodingdean came from Woodendean...
    9 KB (951 words) - 19:02, 30 June 2023
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    The Vale and Downland Museum is a local history museum in the market town of Wantage, Oxfordshire, England. Often described as a hidden gem the museum...
    2 KB (179 words) - 09:22, 27 December 2023
  • A Downland Suite is a 1932 composition for brass band in four movements by John Ireland. It has also been arranged for string orchestra and various other...
    5 KB (527 words) - 10:29, 13 May 2024
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    the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire. West Hendred is downland village, its parish stretching from the Ridgeway in the south through the...
    6 KB (548 words) - 14:22, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Worthing Downland Estate
    The Worthing Downland Estate, Worthing Downs or Worthing Downland, is an area of land in the South Downs National Park in West Sussex, England, close to...
    11 KB (1,234 words) - 20:21, 2 June 2022
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    John Dowland (redirect from John Downland)
    John Dowland (c. 1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs...
    39 KB (4,511 words) - 22:01, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs
    them: Cranborne Chase, an area of chalk downland in the south. West Wiltshire Downs, an area of chalk downland in the north. The Vale of Wardour, a wide...
    4 KB (381 words) - 15:13, 23 August 2024
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    Endothenia marginana, the downland marble, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811. It is found in almost...
    3 KB (219 words) - 19:39, 2 December 2023
  • heathland, scrubland 391 965 SU919296 Y [3] [4] Blackcap Sussex Grass downland, woodland TQ375124 Y [5] Bookham Commons Surrey Grassland, meadows, woodland...
    25 KB (305 words) - 11:55, 7 February 2024
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    Chionodes fumatella, the downland groundling, is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in almost all of Europe (except Portugal and Croatia). Outside...
    2 KB (134 words) - 19:23, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ham Hill, Wiltshire
    Ham Hill is a hill and area of chalk downland in Wiltshire, England, on the steep banks running alongside the road from the village of Ham to Buttermere...
    4 KB (402 words) - 13:12, 6 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Berkshire Downs
    The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The Berkshire...
    4 KB (460 words) - 19:07, 13 April 2024
  • 1971, including downland at Calstone Wellington and Cherhill. It provides one of the best examples in Wiltshire of unimproved downland. The site forms...
    3 KB (284 words) - 18:11, 2 August 2024
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    820°N 0.046°W / 50.820; -0.046 Balsdean is a deserted hamlet in a remote downland valley east of Brighton, East Sussex, England, on record since about 1100...
    4 KB (516 words) - 21:32, 22 July 2023
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    (0.81 km2) of downland scarp, and includes the deepest dry valley in the world – created when melting water eroded the chalk downland to the permafrost...
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