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    The Eastbourne Downland Estate is an area of downland at the easternmost end of the South Downs National Park in East Sussex, England. It was bought by...
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    status. Eastbourne is immediately east of Beachy Head, the highest chalk sea cliff in Great Britain and part of the larger Eastbourne Downland Estate. The...
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    Beachy Head (category Eastbourne)
    Eastbourne Borough Council which owns the land, forming part of the Eastbourne Downland Estate. The cliff is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, rising to...
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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...
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    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...
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    Park area from Willingdon. The Eastbourne Corporation Act 1926 allowed the council to purchase the Eastbourne Downland Estate on the west side of the borough...
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    including Brighton Council's Downland Estate, Worthing Council's Downland Estate, and Eastbourne Council's Downland Estate. Bangs was in the leadership...
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    Seaford is a town in East Sussex, England, east of Newhaven and west of Eastbourne. In the Middle Ages, Seaford was one of the main ports serving Southern...
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    are 42 golf courses in East Sussex, many on downland. Four of these (2 in Brighton and Hove, one in Eastbourne and one in Crowborough) are public courses;...
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    and 19th centuries are found in Willingdon, a Downland village which has become part of the Eastbourne conurbation and whose southern section is part...
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    mixed farming took place, with sheep farming being common on the chalk downland. Fishing fleets continue to operate along the coast, notably at Rye and...
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    winters. The Bevern Stream runs from the South Downs and there are many Downland flints brought by ice age torrents. It meanders from Clappers Bridge, (TQ...
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    Weald Clay is the Lower Greensand Group; it appears a little north of Eastbourne and passes thence through Ringmer, Storrington, Pulborough, Petworth,...
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    industry. Further north, the road was flanked on both sides by undeveloped downland. The present Moulsecoomb area was an outlying part of Patcham parish, with...
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  • Devon 2; Saint Andrews University 1; Lulworth Castle, Dorset 2; Weald and Downland Museum, Sussex 1; Yorkshire Museum, York 1; Yorkshire Museum, York 2; Wimbledon...
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    of Alfred the Great. The ancient droveways of Sussex linked coastal and downland communities in the south with summer pasture land in the interior of the...
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    the areas of the parks that are open to the public. Moorland and chalk downland is easily damaged by regular use, and takes many years to recover. Moorland...
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    Hastings Pier won the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize, with both the Weald and Downland Gridshell and Jubilee Library, Brighton being finalists in earlier years...
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    the century. Its relatively sheltered location beneath the hilly chalk downland and south-facing orientation towards the English Channel produces a microclimate...
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    clubhouse on short mat for the winter season. Lewes Golf Club is set on downland above Cliffe Hill on the east-side of Lewes, where the sport has been played...
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    probably looked similar to the market house currently at the Weald and Downland Museum, with open bays on the ground floor, and an upstairs room for official...
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    between the buildings and the undulating downland landscape on the semi-rural site (carved out of the Stanmer estate). Spence's buildings are "post-1955 Modernist"...
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    England History of Brighton History of Horsham History of Worthing Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - containing about 50 historic buildings dating from the...
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  • (1900). Nature In Downland. London: Longmans, Green and Co. "Downland culture: Traditional Sussex songs". Downs Barn, Sompting Estate. Archived from the...
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    extended by Denman when West Blatchington—originally a sparsely populated Downland farming area—became a residential suburb. His cobbled flint and brick nave...
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  • George Pinfold. For services to the community, especially in the East Downland Benefice, Newbury, Berkshire. Trevor Pitman, Technical Manager, School...
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    ISBN 978-1-85770-351-1. Preston Village Millennium Project (2004). Preston: Downland Village to Brighton Suburb. Brighton: Brighton Books Publishing. ISBN 1-901454-07-X...
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    prevent contamination—principally by purchasing vast swathes of the open downland to regulate land use close to the pumping stations. In 1936 a site high...
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