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    Durdham Down is an area of public open space in Bristol, England. With its neighbour Clifton Down to the southwest, it constitutes a 400-acre (1.6 km2)...
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    England. They consist of Durdham Down to the north and east and Clifton Down to the south, separated by Stoke Road. Durdham Down is the north and east part...
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    Clifton Down is an area of public open space in Bristol, England, north of the village of Clifton. With its neighbour Durdham Down to the northeast, it...
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    Quarry Steps, Durdham Down (grid reference ST573747) is a 0.006 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Durdham Down in Bristol, notified...
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  • played Gloucestershire's initial first-class match versus Surrey at Durdham Down in Bristol on 2, 3 & 4 June 1870. Gloucestershire joined the (unofficial)...
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    1792 and 1810. The first definitely recorded hurdle race took place on Durdham Down, near Bristol, in 1821. The first officially recognised steeplechase...
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    played for Clifton Cricket Club against the South Wales Cricket Club at Durdham Down, his team winning by 114 runs. Several members of the Grace family, including...
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    includes Park Street and Whiteladies Road. It then passes over part of Durdham Down on Westbury Road, then along Falcondale Road and Passage Road through...
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    main road in Bristol, England. It runs north from the Victoria Rooms to Durdham Down, and separates Clifton on the west side from Redland and Cotham on the...
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    Avon), Gloucestershire and southern Wales, present in Tytherington, Durdham Down, Slickstones Quarry and Cromhall Quarry. It dates back to the Rhaetian...
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  • society acted with the Bristol Corporation to put Clifton Down and the adjoining Durdham Down under the control of a single Downs Committee. The society's...
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    demonstration flights were made in Bristol. Temporary hangars were built on Durdham Down and although flying was limited by the weather conditions a crowd of...
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    Coldharbour Road. To the north lies Bishopston and Westbury Park, and Durdham Down to the west. Cotham and Redland together make up the Bristol City Council's...
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    83. Hammersley, G. H. Survey of the Manor of Clifton. in Clifton and Durdham Down: A Landscape History, p. 6, Plan 2. Smith, V. (2002). Street Names of...
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  • the Portway Trym Bridge. From there it continues to the open fields of Durdham Down. The route uses Cumberland Basin Bridge to return to Spike Island where...
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    Billesdon Coplow and back. The first recorded hurdle race took place at Durdham Down near Bristol in 1821. There were 5 hurdles on the mile long course, and...
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  • animals discovered in the autumn of 1834, in the Magnesian Conglomerate on Durdham Down, near Bristol". Geological Society of London, Proceedings, 2 (45): 397-399...
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  • 1883–1884 Three Acres – 1884–1891 Schoolmasters Cricket Ground – 1891–1892 Durdham Down – 1892–1894 Ridgeway – 1894–1897 Eastville Stadium – 1897–1986 Twerton...
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    east to the rim of the Avon Gorge in the west, and from Clifton Down and Durdham Down in the north to Cornwallis Crescent in the south. This area corresponds...
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  • Gazette reported a torchlit "march out and sham fight" for eighty men on Durdham Down, Bristol, organised by Hirst and his fellow officers. Afterwards, the...
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    Samuel Stutchbury, began to excavate "saurian remains" at the quarry of Durdham Down, at Clifton, presently a part of Bristol, which is part of the Magnesian...
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    to Yale. The bones originally came from a Rhaetian-age cave fill at Durdham Down, Clifton, Bristol. Asylosaurus is based on YPM 2195, a partial skeleton...
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    the nearby Bristol Zoo. In 1886, the Bath and West Show being held on Durdham Down generated some 33,000 extra passengers over five days, with direct services...
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    Cromhall quarries near Bristol, as well as a possible specimen from Durdham Down; all of the English remains have been recovered from the Magnesian Conglomerate...
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    described as a "loo lady" at a public toilet in Stoke Road on Bristol's Durdham Down. She soon discovered that many of her customers were prostitutes working...
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    was then pumped to Durdham Down reservoir, which was outside the city limits at the time. The third reservoir at Bedminster Down supplied the district...
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  • 1923 to 1 July 1933. He later joined the British Fascists. He moved to Durdham Down, near Bristol, and from 1943 to 1945 he was county director of the British...
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    divided into Clifton Down to the south and Durdham Down to the north, with a main road running between them. At the south end of Clifton Down is the Clifton...
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    grounds. The club's first home match in first-class cricket was played at Durdham Down in the Clifton district of Bristol. This was the only time the county...
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    of potter Josiah Wedgwood, lived at the old Cote House on the edge of Durdham Down from 1797 to 1806. The house, which had Gothic turrets and battlements...
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