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    their fertility with their droppings and then they would be let out onto the downland to graze. However, starting in 1940 with government measures during the...
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    White Horse, is a hill figure on Granham Hill, a fairly shallow slope of the downland above the hamlet of Preshute, southwest of Marlborough in the county...
    7 KB (892 words) - 09:18, 9 November 2023
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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
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    (SDNPA), the statutory planning authority for the National Park area. The downland scarp, which includes Newtimber Hill, Newtimber Holt, Saddlescombe chalk...
    21 KB (2,410 words) - 11:23, 4 January 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) - 17:48, 5 May 2024
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    England. It is situated close to the coast, and about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the downland rural village of Bishopstone after which it is named. Train services...
    7 KB (618 words) - 23:10, 28 May 2024
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    The civil parish covers an area of 628.31 hectares (1,552.6 acres). The downland scarp, which includes the Fulking and Perching bostals (paths), is part...
    31 KB (3,419 words) - 14:09, 27 September 2023
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    Saxon leader. Others have suggested it means, “The people of the pond”. The downland scarp, which includes the Fulking and Perching bostals (paths), is part...
    20 KB (2,085 words) - 01:56, 27 September 2023
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    policy announcement was made at the start of March 2017, with the sale of the Downland Estate said to be "off the table". Margaret Paren, the Chair of the South...
    22 KB (2,341 words) - 22:01, 6 July 2023
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    Tabanus glaucopis, also known as the downland horsefly, is a species of biting horse-fly. This species is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic...
    5 KB (393 words) - 08:05, 14 March 2023
  • high hills with steep slopes where they border the clays to the south. The downland supports a calcareous grassland habitat, important for wild flowers and...
    5 KB (571 words) - 12:23, 10 June 2023
  • and the British portal is directly below the slopes of Castle Hill. The downland is classified as CG4 Brachypodium pinnatum and CG5 Bromus erectus - Brachypodium...
    4 KB (468 words) - 10:02, 14 July 2024
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    breaking the cohesiveness. On both sides of the road, the contours of the Downland are impressive to behold and, for the most part, even the noise of the...
    34 KB (3,879 words) - 18:48, 19 November 2023
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    of devil’s-bit scabious and the powder-blue lesser scabious radiate. The downland to the north of Patcham leads up to Ditchling Beacon and the western...
    16 KB (2,121 words) - 12:50, 25 January 2024
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    of the Downland Gridshell", R. Harris, O. Kelly, in G.A.R. Park, P. Disney, "Space Structure 5", vol. 1, MPG Books, Cornwall, 2002. "The Downland Grid...
    10 KB (917 words) - 02:00, 25 June 2024
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    stream flowing south through a steep valley cut into the dip slope of the downland, which is dominated by an agricultural landscape of calcareous grassland...
    5 KB (420 words) - 12:57, 28 November 2023
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    Village has kept more of its antiquity and retains many elements of the downland village it once was. Many of the buildings have their original flint...
    89 KB (8,498 words) - 16:11, 7 August 2024
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    of Cranborne Chase. It flows roughly southwards on the dip slope of the downland through Wimborne St Giles, and is joined by the Gussage stream at Gussage...
    9 KB (759 words) - 19:22, 4 August 2024
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    of the Pilgrims' Way. As the pathway runs through the higher parts of the downland, the trail and surrounding countryside are characterised by chalk-based...
    7 KB (549 words) - 13:25, 11 January 2024
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    Portland-Wight Monocline. Later erosion has produced the characteristic ridges of the downland landscape. The landscape was further modified during the Quaternary period...
    11 KB (1,330 words) - 20:37, 5 August 2024
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