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	Durdham Down - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Durdham Down is an area of public open space in Bristol.
		With its neighbour Clifton Down to the southwest, it constitutes the large area known as The Downs, much used for leisure including walking and team sports.
		The original white tree was cut down during the 1970s outbreak of Dutch elm disease ; a replacement tree is now painted white.
	www.iridis.com /Durdham_Down (152 words)

	Clifton Down - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clifton Down is an area of public open space in Bristol, north of the village of Clifton.
		With its neighbour Durdham Down to the northeast, it constitutes the large area known as The Downs, much used for leisure including walking and team sports.
		From the southwest corner of Clifton Down there are panoramic views of the Avon Gorge and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifton_Down (135 words)

	Information About Our Locality - Durdham Hall, University of Bristol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Durdham Hall is situated in the Stoke Bishop area, aproximately 3 miles north of the city centre.
		Durdham Hall is the newest of the six halls of residence set in this large campus, approximately three miles from the centre of Bristol.
		Durdham Hall, which takes its name from Durdham Down, is situated a mere 5 minutes' walk from The Downs (Durdham Down and Clifton Down).
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/Durdham/locality.shtml?&pfv=true (1900 words)

	The Downs (Bristol) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Downs are an area of public open limestone downland in Bristol, England.
		They consist of two separately named parts, Durdham Down to the northeast and the generally more picturesque and visited Clifton Down to the southwest.
		The Downs owe their existence, in what would otherwise have been a prime housing location, to their having been protected, in earlier centuries, from development by interventions from the Merchant Venturers, a powerful business guild in the city, and now an Act of Parliament.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Downs_%28Bristol%29 (304 words)

	Our History - Durdham Hall, University of Bristol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was the Student Union that put forward the name "Durdham" arguing that as Durdham Down was on our doorstep, this would be a worthy name.
		On the evening of September 28, 1994 a small group of invited guests sat down to dinner in the Hall Bar (minus electricity) to celebrate completion of the project and on October 12 the opening ceremony took place.
		Durdham opened its doors (still wet with paint) on October 1, 1994 with a skeleton staff comprising a Warden, Deputy Warden, 3 Hall Tutors, Hall Secretary, Housekeeper, Porter and three domestic assistants and 230 students.
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/Durdham/hall_history.shtml?&pfv=true (444 words)

	Wikipedia free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1595 the Merchant Venturers' School was founded, which subsequently became the Merchant Venturers' Technical College and was a precursor of the University of Bristol, the University of the West of England and City of Bristol College.
		In the 1860s the Society acted with the Bristol Corporation to put Clifton Down and the adjoining Durdham Down under the control of a single Downs Committee.
		Merchant Venturers serve on the boards of many local charitable and cultural organisations, and are guaranteed seats on the University of Bristol Court and the Downs Committee.
	dictionary.paellaman.com /encyclopedia.php?title=Society_of_Merchant_Venturers (696 words)

	Durdham Down - Result for Durdham Down - Meaning of Durdham Down - Definition of Durdham Down - Dictionary of Meaning - ...
		Image:Durdham Down (750px).jpg thumb250pxrightOnly three of Durdham Down's "Seven Sisters" now remain '''Durdham Down''' is an area of public open space in Bristol.
		With its neighbour Clifton Down to the southwest, it constitutes the large area known as The Downs (Bristol) The Downs, much used for leisure including walking and team sports.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Durdham Down.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Durdham_Down.html (249 words)

	BBC - Bristol Downs League - Durdham Down Adult School by Billy McMillan
		The Durdham Downs Adult School has one of the most interesting histories on the Downs.
		At Durdham Down in Bristol a meeting was held every Sunday afternoon where speakers would be invited to talk on their lives, hobbies and work.
		This proviso was eventually recinded in the 1940s, by which time the Durdham Down Adult School AFC had a team playing in each of the four divisions of the Bristol Downs League.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bristol/content/downsleague/2001/02/17/teams/durdham_down.shtml (263 words)

	SPICE Bristol event detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Turn up as long as it’s not bucketing down or blowing a gale, a little drizzle will be up for negotiation for those who attend.
		We’ve picked a bit of the Downs that is flat and not so crowded, we hope, so follow the directions below and you should find us all right.
		We will be at the Sneyd Park side of the Downs in the loop near the cliff.
	www.spicebristol.com /Events/EventDetail.asp?e=867 (201 words)

	About Bristol - Open Spaces - The Downs
		By an Act of Parliament in 1861, the Society of Merchant Venturers gave Clifton Down to the public forever, while Durdham Down was purchased from the Lords of the Manor of Henbury.
		Originally the commons of the Manors of Clifton and Henbury, the Downs were rough pasture land used for sheep grazing.
		There is noticeable contrast between various areas of the Downs - the clumps of scrubby hawthorns, the avenues of massive horse-chestnuts, the flat swathes of grass and the elegant bordering of Victorian houses.
	www.about-bristol.co.uk /prk-01.asp (252 words)

	1908-10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On Durdham Down the royal party stopped to hear 10,000 school children sing the National Anthem before travelling from Clifton Down to Avonmouth by train.
		At the final rally on Durdham Down on 19 September the organisers had arranged seven platforms on lorries for the various speakers one of them being Christobel Pankhurst.
		One of the committee members, Miss Wait, said that over and over again she had been told that the work on Durdham Down was being done in a shilly-shallying half hearted way.
	weldgen.tripod.com /1901-1913/id3.html (4893 words)

	Epidemic Online - September 2003 - The 'Durdham Conspiracy'
		Exact details are hard to come by, and the yearly turnover of students means that within three to four years any events become the subject of rumour and second, third or fourth hand reporting.
		Across the university there are numerous examples of maps in which Durdham has been added on using biro, marker pen or pencil.
		Recently we were able to track down one of the original builders who was contracted to work on the site, he agreed to speak to us, but did not wish to be named.
	www.bits.bris.ac.uk /leon/epi_durdhamconspiracy.htm (729 words)

	when (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Durdham Down fissure fillings are now known to be distinct from the nearby Dolomitic or Magnesian Conglomerate.
		One of these, near the Zoological Gardens, was proved to be of the age of the Lower Lias, - Ammonites, Echini, Foraminifera and the other remains of that age being exhibited by the author, taken from between the walk of the Carboniferous Limestone 30 feet from the surface.
		The presence of a phytosaur, Paleosaurus platyodon, at Durdham Down at least guarantees a Late Triassic age, since phytosaurs are not known after the end of the Triassic, and pre-Carnian records are equivocal.
	palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /bristoldinosaurproject/when.html (729 words)

	names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thomas Huxley came to Bristol to examine the Durdham Down material, and he (Huxley, 1870) separated Thecodontosaurus and Paleosaurus into two different dinosaurian groups based on their teeth.
		Seeley (1895) and Huene (1902, 1908a, b, 1914) re-described the Durdham Down specimens.
		It is now assumed that all the Durdham Down dinosaur remains belong to a single species, Thecodontosaurus antiquus, and that shape variations are an expression of sexual dimorphism (i.e.
	palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /bristoldinosaurproject/names.html (857 words)

	Hitman's Hitmania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If you are planning on moving out of Durdham on the 11th June then please be aware that the site will be closed to traffic from around 11am and that the carparks will be in use during the day.
		On behalf of the JCR and Durdham Hall we hope that you enjoy the music and exciting entertainments planned for Durdhambury and that you have enjoyed your year with us.
		Ok so I was a little bit dissappointed as it is the worst mark I've got all year and yes it does pull my 80.5% average down to 77.5% and does take me off a starred first average and it was a clear 12% lower than the highest mark I know of in the group...
	www.hitmania.org.uk - !http: //www.bits.bris.ac.uk/leon/weblog.htm (16850 words)

	www.bristolhistory.com
		Clifton Down (230 acres) and Durdham Down (212 acres) secured by Act of Parliament to the citizens for ever as place of public resort and recreation.
		April 8: Plan for a railway line from Clifton Down Station (with a station near Richmond Hill) to go under Brandon Hill and finish up behind she Royal Hotel in College Green.
		June 30: Hope expressed by Council that Sunday Concerts on the Downs be discontinued these were started by a group of gentlemen interested in the welfare of the working classes—20,000 attended, and audiences grew in 1886, but sales of programmes were insufficient to cover costs.
	weldgen.tripod.com /bristol-history-com (1982 words)

	Picturing the Docks: Responses
		Keith¹s unpleasant task, was to climb down onto the gridiorn thick with mud and cut away the rope which had been tangled round the prop.
		The tug John King, previously known as Durdham and owned by Bob Morley and Keith Hancock, was put on the gridiorn in 1992, for inspection by Andy King, prior to sale to Bristol Industrial Museum.
		Durdham made the last commercial tow in Bristol Docks, bringing the Thekla back to her mooring in The Grove in1991.
	www.uwe.ac.uk /amd/lan2d/cusp/mary.htm (1038 words)

	HISTORY OF THE GEORGE INN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The turnpike or toll road from Durdham Down to Shirehampton was inspected in 1818 along with the Eastern and Western lodge gates at each end of the outer Kingsweston Park.
		At the bottom of Park Hill the farm outbuildings and a stable were taken down to widen the turnpike.
		Francois’ mother after seeing her friend went down, collected him, and on their way out crossing, the courtyard saw men running towards the house one with a pitchfork alarmed at hearing the bell.
	www.digitalbristol.org /members/shireweb/george.htm (6175 words)

	Seven Sisters (Possible Barrow) \| Fieldnotes by hamish \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Seven Sisters (Possible Barrow) \| ...
		This feature is on Durdham Down just off the Westbury Road not far from the Water Tower.
		It is possible for this to be an old Barrow, but it could also be the result of tree roots pushing the ground up.
		Down load the pics and zoom in and see what you think.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /post/24340 (69 words)

	R R Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary 1753 - 1755 - Passage Across The Severn
		I arrived in the afternoon at New Passage, ten miles from Bristol on the River Severn, which in this place ought to be known as a bay of the ocean as it is four miles wide [Fig.
		The road continued across a common called Durdham Down, where there was a magnificent prospect out towards the sea and King Roads, where ships enter the Bristol River from the Severn.
		Towards autumn a horse race is held upon the common, and it was said that there is a great influx of spectators both from Bristol and from other towns and villages many miles away.
	www.caerleon.net /history/forge/angerstein/ferry.htm (677 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| 'Bus rage' driver suspended
		The First City Line bus was running a special service from a Radio One roadshow on Bristol's Durdham Down to a park-and-ride centre when passengers claim it became involved in a road rage incident.
		Some of the 80 passengers on board claim children were screaming as the bus driver tried to overtake the Saab while going down Bridge Valley Road which runs down the side of the Avon Gorge.
		Sarah Nixon, 36, from Congresbury, near Bristol, was on the bus with her 12-year-old daughter Alana.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/uk/newsid_733000/733284.stm (297 words)

	Clifton and Durdham Downs
		In 1676 the Society acquired the Manor of Clifton, then all open country, which included 220 acres of Clifton Down bordering the Avon Gorge.
		Almost 200 years later the neighbouring Manor of Henbury, which included Durdham Down, came on the market.
		This happened and under the provisions of the Clifton and Durdham Downs Act 1861 the Downs are still administered by a Downs Committee appointed in equal numbers by the City Council and the Society.
	www.merchantventurers.com /downs.htm (113 words)

	clifton_down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Clifton Observatory, Clifton Down, Bristol Our visit on May 27, 1996 On May 27 we checked into our Bristol hotel and walked to...
		Bristol Connect Clifton Observatory and Camera Obscura Clifton Down, Clifton The Observatory stands on the site formerly occupied by a snuff-grinding mill that was burnt out in 1777 through having been...
		By an Act of Parliament in 1861, the Society of Merchant Venturers gave Clifton Down to the public forever, while Durdham Down was purchased from the Lords of the Manor of...
	clifton_down.networklive.org (283 words)

	Fat Boy Runs Bristol: Fat Chance, 1.
		Itâs a look rarely appreciated outside certain parts of the north east, and transformed me into someone I had not figured on turning into for a while, not at least until I was well past 40.
		The post box was all of 40 feet outside the flat, but it was at that very spot that I roused from my stupor, having already posted the letter and uttered the words I knew I would often repeat: âWhat the hell have I doneâ.
		It really is cold, and as I lumber round the Downs, itâs not long before I feel a pang, which at first I think is my heart giving out, but realise itâs a mixture of regret and fear.
	fatboypeevo.blogspot.com /2005/03/fat-chance-1.html (1177 words)

	Flat 13 - The Unofficial Badger Bar and Durdham Hall JCR Website
		this is flat 13 (so called because Durdham needs one).
		Sit down for a while, make yourself at home and have a look around.
		I'm off to Australia now but I look forward to meeting you all in September.
	durdham.tripod.com (140 words)

	Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre (BRERC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If you feel like a challenge over the coming year, why not try and track down some of these infrequently recorded moth species.
		Phyllonorycter ulicolella, described as new to science by Stainton from a specimen taken on Durdham Down in 1850 by Mr Vaughan.
		Elachista triseriatella, described new to science by Stainton from a specimen from St Vincent’s Rocks, Durdham Down in 1854.
	www.brerc.org.uk /groups/bdmg/target.htm (660 words)

	Latest News from Clifton St Vincents AFC
		Lets all get down to the Alma Tavern and put some cash back into the pub that is suppling us with a new A team and change strip next season.
		Clifton St Vincents maintained their dignity through this troublesome time were still considered by the majority of clubs up on the Downs to be the team that actually won the title in 2000/2001.
		Durdham DAS Res 26 11 4 11 54 45 37
	www.web-teams.co.uk /_2003/NewsItems.asp?team=cliftonstvincentsafc (4120 words)

	Portland Old Boys Football Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Portland then attacked strongly down the right and Jon Lackie forced a fine save from the DDAS keeper.
		Indeed Nathan released Mark Hibbitt down the left, and he should have crossed earlier when well placed.
		Mike O'Donnell broke away down the right and drove in a cross that flew over the DDAS keeper's head and into the top corner.
	www.portlandoldboys.com /match_report_004.htm (832 words)

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