Beispiele aus Textkorpus für downland
1. Common on the continent, this chalk grassland specialist is also found on Ministry of Defence sites and downland reserves in southern England and north Wales.
2. Under the act, the public can walk across 237,000 acres of moor, mountain, heath and downland in Cornwall, Devon and western Somerset that were previously closed, including 116,000 acres of Dartmoor national park.
3. The toilet floors were awash, the proudly manicured lawns were a swamp and tractors were still dragging out coaches from the downland car parks three hours after racing ended.
4. Heathlands, moors, chalk downland, woodland rides and borders are all favoured by the snake, which can also be found in coastal dunes, cliff–tops, on rough commons, overgrown quarries, field edges and railway embankments.
5. WHILE the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CRoW) does indeed legally open up large swathes of the countryside, it has not delivered access to as much land as we had hoped (News, last week). In particular downland areas have been wrongly excluded from the maps and the act has yet to be extended to cover coastal land.