Talk:Downland

message: I've had to take the step of rewriting a lot of this article as it was becoming nonsense.
Please don't do any reverting unless you are sure your facts are correct. I will try and keep an eye on this article to stop it straying away to junk again... It's critical that wikipedia is accurate in places, or at least accurate enough that the casual observer cannot see through the nonsense
-- rant over --- --Davelane 00:09, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: As it is, I think it is excellent. Well done. Dieter Simon 22:55, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: Why did you change the southern England chalk formation from singular to plural?  As I understand it the different downs are all part of the same formation, folding followed by erosion of some of the domes and creation of valleys and vales have led it being divided into the separately named downs. --Joe D (t) 23:16, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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message: I've also thought about a general article on this particular formation, as I've found (and written) in a number of articles on specific areas of downs a list of the other downs in the formation, and replacing the text "this downland is part of the chalk formation that includes the Dorset Downs, Salisbury Plain, Isle of Wight, South Downs" etc etc with "this downland is part of the Southern England Chalk Formation might be one of the many benefits of such an article.  I've also noticed the articles Chalk, Downland and Chalk Formation aren't quite as tied together as they could be. Joe D (t) 00:28, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Southern England Chalk Formation

message: I have removed Watership Down and Eastbourne from the South Downs. Watership Down is between Basingstoke and Newbury, and well to the north of the South Downs. Eastbourne is a town which lies mostly below the eastern end of the South Downs. Instead, I have added Butser Hill and Ditchling Beacon to the examples of parts of the South Downs.
Also, I've added Box Hill as a further example of a place on the North Downs.
--Portnadler 16:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The Southern England Chalk Formation

message: Are you certain that 'dun' is Germanic or Norse? I am German and the main german words for hill ist 'Huegel' (Buehl, Biehl, Bichel). 'dun' rather relates to the celtic 'dún', which denotes a hill fortification. The word dune also probably comes from this root.--46.223.7.40 (talk) 20:37, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: Merger of the articles now complete. There are more footnotes now, but even more would be good. The habitat section could probably do with more work. Mikenorton (talk) 20:48, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content merged from [[Southern England Chalk Formation]] article as proposed 

message: User Spinningspark who sadly has passed away had requested Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop#Topographical_map_of_southern_England a map of the Downland and I have worked on it. We were as good as finished when I learned he passed away but Chipmunkdavis helped me with the last part and it's now uploaded and you can find it here Downland in southern England. Please check the information on it as it is what I have found without any knowledge of this, thanks.  --always ping me-- Goran tek-en (talk) 16:33, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map of Downland