Downs - Places

Places

In the 'hill' context, the word 'down' derives from Celtic (Welsh or Gaelic) dun "hill, hill fort".

  • Downland, a geographical feature
  • The North Downs and the South Downs, England, as a collective term
  • North Wessex Downs AONB, England
  • White Horse Hills, England
  • The Downs, sea area between Goodwin Sands and the East Kent coast
  • The Downs, Bristol, a public open space in Bristol, England
  • The Downs, a large grassy area on the University of Nottingham's University Park Campus
  • The Downs School (disambiguation), name of three schools
  • Downs, Illinois, a village in the United States
  • Downs, Kansas, a small city in the United States
  • Downs, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  • Downs, County Laois, a townland in County Laois, Ireland
  • Darling Downs, Queensland, a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland

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Famous quotes containing the word places:

    “The places we have known do not only belong to the world of space in which we situate them for the sake of simplicity. They were but a thin slice between contiguous impression which formed our lives back then; the memory of a certain image is but the regret of a certain instant; and the houses, the roads, the avenues are fleeting, alas! as the years.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the shovel and scraper, with all the softest inequalities in the middle, like a hog’s back with the bristles up.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “All places are alike,
    And every earth is fit for burial.”
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