Well call on me when you do. I live but 15 mins' drive from Devil's Dyke. In Victorian times there was a railway from Brighton just to there for days out. We go there for our quarter-century sledding.

Downs are more of a patchwork of woodland. And remember it's all on chalk - and then the much worn-down remnants of once a vast bulge in the earth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KentGeologyWealdenDomeSimple.svg

>One of the places I hope to visit one day. It's beautiful! I found this pic on wiki:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Part_of_S_Downs_near_Devils_Dyke.JPG
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>Looks similar to Wisconsin bluffs:
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>http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2194296690099181844aOBWgO
>http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2183784930099181844KAFaqN
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/88601163@N00/2162128189
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/hand_of_sands/1805152218/in/set-72157602539866113/
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>This area is more wooded (unlike the praire bluffs):
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>http://www.wheelerfamily.name/updates/St.%20Croix%20River/St.%20Croix%20River.html
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>Praire du Chien:
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>http://www.crawfordcountywi.com/communities/prairieduchien.htm
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>More Wisconsin farmland:
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>http://www.sierravisionsstock.com/sierravisions/category/wisconsin-trip/
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>Somewhat resembles Wisconsin. I wonder if that is why Sussex, WI is named after Sussex, England? :o)
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>Of course, the problem with Wisconsin is that there is too much of this:
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>http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2050140600037420921TbkdKm
>http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2085122490082268300sXTWev
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>>Huge rolling hills - like mini-mountains, of chalk. Look like God went over them with a mower before handing them over to Man. Mind you, like most of Britain, would have been covered in forest, before farms and sheep etc. There are pockets of woods, and copses. Sussex though is the most highly wooded county in England. Very beautiful.
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>>Patchwork of farms - rape, wheat, sheep and cow pasture, meadow, and grass-covered "mounts"
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>>http://www.visitsouthdowns.com/
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Downs
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>>>Do the 'downs' have trees? Arey they hills or plateaus? I've read about them in plenty of books but never seen.
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>>>>>>>>Chatter section echoes back: Helloooooo
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>>>>>>>>Any theories on why Chatter has gone so quiet?
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>>>>>>>terry not here any more ?
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>>>>>>My first thought! lol!
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>>>>>>Go on! You miss me really!
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>>>>>April ?
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>>>>>seaside ?
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>>>>>Whose jealous ?
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>>>>As in "the jealous belonging to whom"?
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>>>>I've spent a good deal of time up on the downs, highest point of the whole of Brighton, 15 mins' walk uphill from my house, at the allotment, panoramic views of the sea, the marina, the whole of the city, etc, putting in raised beds, fences, my shed and its decking, clearing, turning the earth, etc. I've lost c a stone (14 llbs for any US readers), muscles on my arm muscles, and now a bit of colour in my cheeks :-)