Downland

In the between-the-wars years it attracted retired colonials (and colonels) who found something akin to the life they'd been used to in adopting the sun-baked South facing Downland.

Village of Mystery Peter Ashley 2008

Played out in the grounds of the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum by a huge cast from the award-winning Chichester Youth Theatre, the show follows Lila's adventures as she heads to a volcano to win fire from the Fire-Fiend.

This week's new theatre 2010

Unbeknownst to me, there was also the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum right next door, where you can go and walk around in restored buildings from all over the country that have been taken down from their original settings and brought in pieces, numbered and archived, to the grounds of the museum, where they are carefully stored until they have the money to reassemble and restore them.

Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007

Unbeknownst to me, there was also the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum right next door, where you can go and walk around in restored buildings from all over the country that have been taken down from their original settings and brought in pieces, numbered and archived, to the grounds of the museum, where they are carefully stored until they have the money to reassemble and restore them.

DIY Heather McDougal 2007

This morning I went out with Princes Park Councillor Pat Gulvin in the pouring rain to get signatures for a petition calling on Medway Council to provide a crossing of some sort across Princes Avenue to get to Downland park play area.

Petitioning in the rain for a safe crossing to the park Tracey Crouch 2007

This morning I went out with Princes Park Councillor Pat Gulvin in the pouring rain to get signatures for a petition calling on Medway Council to provide a crossing of some sort across Princes Avenue to get to Downland park play area.

Archive 2007-07-01 Tracey Crouch 2007

It rose, it took colour, became definite and detailed, and the counterpart of the Downland of England was speeding by below.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

The best and most interesting description that I know of the old manner of taking them, is to be found in Mr.W. H. H.dson's _Nature in Downland_.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Chichester has its roughs and its public houses (Mr. Hudson in his _Nature in Downland_ gives them a caustic chapter); it also has its race-week every July, and barracks within hail; yet it is always a cathedral town.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Not once in this month did Hobb go out of the forest, which was confined on the north and north-west by big roads running to the world, and on all other sides by slopes of Downland.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922