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North Downs landscapes : exploring the glorious English countryside on London's doorstep /
The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey. They skirt the southern edge of London, so for a long time have offered Londoners beautiful countryside to escape to, or for a home to commute to work from. A hundred y...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction; The White Cliffs of Dover; Dover Castle and the Start of the Downs; The Folkestone Downs; Roaming a Vibrant Downs Landscape; Agricultural Icons of the East Kent Downs; Eastling: an old Downs village; Wye: ancient routes; The North Downs Scarp; The Pilgrim's Way and the North Downs Way; Chilham Castle (left); The Archbishop's Palace, Charing; The Valley of the Great Stour; Rochester Town; Rochester Castle; Difficult Soil High Up in the Downs; Orchids of the Chalk Grassland; The West Kent Landscape; Otford; The Kent-Surrey Border.
- Motorways in the North DownsReigate and Redhill; Protecting What We Love: the battle for Banstead Downs; Margery Wood: a fragmented habitat; Reigate and Buckland Downs; Steep Ways and Wild Woods on the Scarp Slopes; Epsom and its Race Course; Dorking Town; Box Hill; The Mole Valley and Denbies Wine Estate; The Mole Gap: Mickleham and the Stepping Stones; The Mole Stepping Stones; Mickleham; Ranmore Common; Chalk, Greensand and Fungi; Mushrooms and Toadstools; At Polesden Lacey; Leith Hill Tower; Leith Hill Villages; Wotton and the Tilling Valley; Rhododendrons: Beauty and the Beast.
- The 'Stop Line' and PillboxesAbinger Hammer; Shere Village; St James Church, Shere; Albury: a moving village; Silent Pool; The Chimneys of Albury; Albury Downs and Newlands Corner; St Martha's Church; Chantries and Pewley Down; Guildford; Mother Ludlum's Cave; A Path up Crooksbury Hill, South of Farnham; Farnham; Farnham castle; Conclusion; References and Indexes; Index of Place Names; Index of images and map references.