Downs Downs

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Definitions:

  • Downs: This term is usually used to describe the characteristic landscape in southern England where chalk is exposed at the surface. A bit confusingly, some Dartmoor uplands are known as Downs (derived from dūn, the Old English for hill). Legendary Dartmoor website suggests that a Down is a "..large tract of heather moorland that either gives to or takes from a tor name and is often contracted to ‘don’. The name usually denotes an area of good grazing and so is rarely found deep into the moor."

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