Now 49 RTR returned its 'Tillies' to store and began intensive infantry tank training on the South Downs with new Matilda II tanks.
On the South Downs in southern England, it has formed huge fairy rings which appear to be several hundred years old.
His recruiting was highly successful, enlisting men from the South Downs already bound to one another by community ties.
Rudyard Kipling who lived at Rottingdean described the South Downs as "Our blunt, bow-headed whale-backed Downs".
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England: Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lake District, New Forest, Northumberland, North York Moors, Peak District, South Downs, Yorkshire Dales and The Broads which has equivalent status to a National Park.
The Vanguard Way, a long-distance walk, goes through the village, and the South Downs Way passes along the Downs just above it.
There are many examples of chalk dry valleys along the North and South Downs in southern England.
Galletting was a common technique in those parts of Southeast England between the North and South Downs, where sandstone buildings may be galleted with ironstone.
It is located at the northern end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs four miles (6.4 km) north of Shoreham-by-Sea and has a land area of 1877 hectares (4637 acres).
The windmills stand atop the scenic South Downs with spectacular views of the Sussex Weald.
This stream, the River Lod, runs parallel to the larger River Rother which flows about 10 km further south in the lee of the chalk escarpment of the South Downs.
Much of Lancing's northern boundary with the village of Coombes runs along the Ladywell Stream, a tributary of the River Adur which runs from the South Downs near to Lancing College.
It lies on the South Downs and comprises the villages of North Marden and East Marden.
Later, in neolithic times a roadway developed along the South Downs, passing south of Old Winchester Hill and crossing the River Meon at Exton.
Downs Link — 59 kilometres from the North Downs Way at St. Martha's Hill near Guildford, Surrey to the South Downs Way at Steyning, and on to Shoreham-by-Sea
In March 2010 the status of the AONB was revoked and the management of the Sussex Downs AONB was merged with the East Hampshire AONB under the South Downs Joint Committee pending the formation of a national park authority.
The views from Holmbury Hill are unsurpassed; on a sunny day you can see all the way back to The City of London and even see the sea through the Shoreham gap in the South Downs.