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	Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth, Hampshire
		Portsdown Hill is a chalk escarpment 120 metres high with spectacular viewpoint across the harbour.
		The development of rifled gun barrels during the 1850's improved accuracy and doubled their range, which meant that an enemy capturing the heights of Portsdown Hill would be able to bombard the British fleet at anchor in Portsmouth harbour.
		The disappearance of the sheep during the 1930s and 40s, and the devastation of Portsdown Hill's large rabbit population through myxomatosis, allowed coarser grasses previously kept at bay by intensive grazing to flourish unchecked.
	www.hants.gov.uk /discover/places/portsdown.html (900 words)

	Portsdown Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portsdown Hill is a long chalk hill overlooking Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England, offering good views over Portsmouth, The Solent, Hayling Island and Gosport, with the Isle of Wight beyond.
		Southwick house nestles close by the north side of the hill, the HQ for Eisenhower during the D-Day invasions.
		A series of 5 forts were planned along the 7 miles (10 km) of the ridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portsdown_Hill (356 words)

	Portsdown
		Portsdown is an outlying ridge of chalk detached from the main Hampshire anticline with a syncline lying between them.
		The Portsdown Countryside Service financed by Portsmouth City Council and the Portsdown Conservation Volunteers are engaged in an ongoing battle to reverse the capture of the down by scrub.
		For a few years now the hill has been grazed in the winter in compartments that are fenced, mainly by cattle but in 1999 and 2000 a small herd of goats have been used.
	www.havantnature.net /Portsdown.htm (1631 words)

	Encyclopedia: Portsdown Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Peak bagging (also hill bagging, mountain bagging, or among enthusiasts, just bagging) is a popular activity for hillwalkers and mountaineers in which they attempt to reach the summit of each peak in a region above some height, or having a particular feature.
		Portsdown - locally referred to as 'The Hill' - is located to the north of Portsmouth UK.
		Portsdown is the product of an anticline in Upper Cretaceous chalk (84 to 90 million years old).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Portsdown-Hill (1117 words)

	Portsdown Tunnels - About Portsdown Hill
		The hill is eight miles long, and about three-fourths of a mile high [sic], beginning at the road that runs along at the foot of the hill.
		The PHCS is directly responsible for the management of other areas of non-S.S.S.I land across Portsdown Hill and is active in influencing the management of land in the control of agencies such as the, MoD, utilities and farmers.
		Anyway, I usually use the term 'Portsdown' except where I have to emphasis the fact that Portsdown is a Hill.
	www.portsdown-tunnels.org.uk /portsdown/about_portsdown.html (1709 words)

	Portsdown Volunteers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Portsdown Hill is a ridge of chalk that lies to the north of Portsmouth Harbour.
		The north face of the hill is farmland, mainly growing crops, while much of the south is a SSSI (it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest) due to its remaining chalk grassland habitat.
		The south face of the hill is now a patchwork of chalk-quarries, some woodland, a lot of scrub, and some grassland.
	www.portsdown.org (286 words)

	Portsdown Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Portsdown Hill is the boundary between the city of Portsmouth and Hampshire's rolling countryside to the north.
		To maintain public enjoyment of Portsdown Hill and safeguard the sites ecological value, the practical management of the site is carried out by the Portsdown Hill Countryside Service with additional tasks being carried out by contractors, volunteers and various community groups.
		Portsdown Hill also has an interesting military history, as well as being an important area for wildlife and there is much to explore.
	www.portsmouth.gov.uk /visiting/3644.html (307 words)

	Conservation Volunteers
		Portsdown is the seven mile chalk escarpment that fills the horizon immediately to the north of Portsmouth.
		The ridge of the Hill is a popular place to admire striking seascapes or take in the pleasing scene provided by the Forest of Bere as it sweeps northwards to the South Downs.
		A major aim of the volunteer group is to return large expanses of Portsdown to species-rich downland at the expense of scrub and rank grass that is spreading fast.
	www.havantnature.net /conservation_volunteers.htm (451 words)

	Portsmouth-UK - Portsdown Hill
		Portsdown hill (The Hill) forms part of the South Downs, A Chalk based hill system, and stands at over 200 feet above sea level.
		The fort's that stand proud of the hill are a monument to British engineer's over the centuries, Built in the 1860's as part of the British defences against the French, they stood mainly unused.
		The Hill is also home to one of the hardest golf course's in the Area, Crookhorn Golf Course'.
	www.portsmouth-uk.com /portsdown_hill.htm (197 words)

	Portsdown Tunnels - Old Portsdown Photos - page 2
		The handles for our catapults were carved from the hedgerows at the top of the hill as was the hockey sticks that were used by sometimes up to thirty or forty youths in games up and down Sevenoaks Road.
		The area alongside Portsdown School that ran from the bottom of Sevenoaks Road to Spur Road was known as the fields.
		Portsdown still featured for me because on some of my homeward journeys it was always a pleasure to hit the crest of the "Hill " by the George Inn to see Portsmouth spread out before me. I left Wymering in 1958 with my new bride, from Southsea, to live in East Surrey.
	www.portsdown-tunnels.org.uk /portsdown/about_portsdown_p2.html (2472 words)

	Palmerston's Folly - An article by Linda Evans
		The War Department purchased the necessary acreage along Portsdown Hill from the Lord of the Manor Mr.
		When the military road that ran along the crest of the hill was built, passing behind the forts on the South side this then enabled good communications between them.
		Another criticism was that if the Portsdown Forts were in danger of being overcome by an enemy, the soldiers manning them would retreat down Portsdown Hill, to Hilsea Lines.
	www.hgs-online.org.uk /pfolly.htm (1011 words)

	Hampshire County Council
		Its release follows a national rationalisation of MOD establishments, and locally a consolidation at the new Defence Evaluation Research Agency premises at Portsdown West on Portsdown Hill Road, 1.6 kilometres to the west.
		To the north is open agricultural land and to the south is the scarp face of Portsdown Hill.
		The main bulk of the buildings are situated on the southern half of the site, broadly on the ridge of the hill, with the northern slopes of the hill largely undeveloped and including land in agricultural use.
	www.hants.gov.uk /scrmxn/c23913.html (1536 words)

	Portsdown Hill - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Portsdown Hill - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Part of the hill has been desegnated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
		Portsdown Hill, Portsdown Forts, External links, History of Hampshire, Hills of Hampshire and Forts in the United Kingdom.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Portsdown_Hill (350 words)

	Wiltshire Regiment
		The occupation of the Palmerston Forts at Portsdown Hill by The 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment 1894 - 1896
		In 1894 some sections of the Wiltshire Regiment were at Portsdown Hill, possibly in Camp between the Forts.
		After service in India the Forts of Portsdown Hill must have seemed very quiet, the men were involved in menial tasks much of the time, so life for the Wiltshire’s became monotonous.
	www.palmerstonforts.org.uk /wilt.htm (1145 words)

	The Chalk of the southdowns (specifically Portsdown hill) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Portsdown Hill is a ridge of pure white chalk on the south coast in Hampshire, which is surrounded by the clays and gravels of more recent times.
		Calcium carbonate is one of the major rock-forming minerals of the world; the other being silicates of various compositions.
		The chalk is widely used in construction; in cement and forming much of the basal layers of the local roads, such as the M27 which runs in front of the Hill.
	wwwusers.brookes.ac.uk /03036332 (356 words)

	The Geology of Portsdown Hill
		Portsdown Hill is clearly a ridge, and made of chalk.
		Pages are also devoted to the uses that Man has made of the materials extracted from the Hill, from Neolithic times to today.
		Please browse through the pages at will, or begin by placing Portsdown Hill within the geological framework of the British Isles.
	www.bbm.me.uk /portsdown (153 words)

	Where is Portsdown Hill?
		Portsdown within the geology of the UK Portsdown Hill lies along the northern edge of Portsmouth Harbour in the south of England, just east of Southampton.
		Hampshire geology within the UK Portsdown sits in southern Hampshire, where the rocks are all of Cretaceous and Cenozoic age - relatively young.
		The geology of Southern Hampshire is shown here, with Portsdown being the green outcrop of Chalk in the blue rectangle.
	www.bbm.me.uk /portsdown/PH_030_Where.htm (448 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: Sites: Fort Widley
		The War Department purchased the necessary acreage along Portsdown Hill from the Lord of the Manor.
		The Royal Engineers were responsible for the basic design of the hill forts, with Colonel, later Lieutenant General, Sir W. Drummond Jervois RE in charge.
		A military road was built along the crest of the hill, passing behind the forts on the south side; this then enabled good communications between them.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/f/fort_widley/index.shtml (1252 words)

	The Flints of Portsdown Hill
		The flints of Portsdown Hill can clearly be seen in the quarry faces, the nearby fields, and the local gardens.
		Flints are found, as mentioned, as nodules in tabular layers in the chalk, in sheets and as isolated nodules.
		It can can now be seen in the disused quarries on Portsdown Hill, such as Candy's Pit, Portsdown, and Downend, and all over the surface of the Hill.
	www.bbm.me.uk /Portsdown/PH_320_Flint.htm (2519 words)

	Lovedean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lovedean is a small village located on the South Coast of England.
		It is just north of Portsmouth in Hampshire, over Portsdown Hill.
		The village of Lovedean is situated around the main road Lovedean Lane, which is at the bottom of the valley after which it is named (dean is from the old English word Denu meaning valley).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lovedean (94 words)

	A Brief History of Paulsgrove
		Overlooking the three of them was Portsdown Hill.
		So it was the hill by the harbour.
		In 1942 tunnels were dug under the chalk in Portsdown Hill at the top of Wymering Lane to make a bomb shelter for thousands of people.
	www.localhistories.org /Paulsgrove.html (909 words)

	Portsdown SSSI
		This is the text of the document designating Portsdown as a Site of special Scientific Interest
		Portsdown Hill is an isolated east-west chalk anticline with a long south-facing escarpment which remains unreclaimed.
		On the lower south-facing slopes raised beaches mark former sea levels and it is postulated that former wave erosion has removed the Tertiary deposits and some of the chalk, leaving very steep slopes.
	www.havantnature.ndirect.co.uk /portsdown_sssi.htm (518 words)

	Portsdown Hill
		Ports Down, or Portsdown Hill, as many people call it, is a chalk escarpment 120m high.
		Nature in Portsmouth and Havant by John Goodspeed has up-to-date information on activities and on the Friends of Portsdown Hill.
		Hilma Miles is a regular volunteer and has lots of pictures and information on her Portsdown Hill Conservation Volunteers web pages.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/alanthurbon/wildtext/portsdown.htm (605 words)

	Portchester Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At one cemetary, three tumuli occur just east of Fort Purbrook, each measured at 6 metres diameter (1965) with large flints on the surface indicating the bedrock had been excavated from beneath the soil which here is about 110cm thick.
		From 495 to 645 A.D. there was peace but in 645 Cenwalh, king of the West Saxons having put away his wife, a princess of Mercia caused her brother Penda to declare war and drove Cenwalh from his kingdom.
		All along the bottom of the Portsdown Hill between Cosham and Portchester are traces of ancient encampments.
	members.tripod.com /midgley/porchestercastle.html (1300 words)

	House for sale - Orielton, 41a Portsdown Hill Road, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 - Primelocation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The property is located approximately two miles to the west of Havant on the slopes of Portsdown Hill with stunning southerly views overlooking Langstone Harbour.
		Proceed down the hill to the roundabout at the bottom.
		At this point, take the first exit, almost doubling back and proceed up Portsdown Hill Road and over the A3(M).
	www.primelocation.com /hyemha_b9308 (1273 words)

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		Above: This formation appeared on Golden Ball Hill in Wiltshire on 26th July and spawned a hilarious apocryphal tale about an army of darkness creating the formation.
		Above: Researchers are referring to this exquisetly crafted formation which appeared in a wheat field beneath Milk Hill, Wiltshire on the 26th of June as variously an insect - possibly a bee - an angel or if they don't want to pin down it's exact symbology "a complex arrangement of circles, arcs and crescents".
		This double spiral formation appeared on the 10th June at Portsdown Hill in Hampshire in quick recovering immature wheat.
	www.circlemakers.org /totc2004.html (775 words)

	‘Plotter’ remembers her role on historic day - D-Day Anniversary - MSNBC.com
		My brother was a radio operator and plotter so I asked to be a plotter.” Naval plotters helped the military planners by keeping track of all the ships, friendly or otherwise, in the English Channel.
		James was assigned to Fort Southwick, one of four Victorian forts built on Portsdown Hill in 1860 to protect Portsmouth from Britain’s then-enemy, France.
		During World War II, a combined headquarters for Operation Overlord, the code-name for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe, was constructed beneath the fort, providing a bombproof Naval, Army, and Air Force Operation Control and Communication Center.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5076882 (1590 words)

	Litter collection from Portsdown Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Some time in the middle of February 2004, I got sickened by the site, bought myself a litter-picker and 100 refuse sacks from my local market, and got collecting.....
		Having dutifully collected their dog-poo into little plastic bags, many walkers seem to think it acceptable to fling these onto the Portsdown SSSI site; where they often get caught up in scrub.
		A common but disgusting sight on our site is that of plastic bags of festering shit, hanging high in the trees - from where it is extremely difficult to remove them.
	www.portsdown.org /gallery/ugly/g_litter01.htm (723 words)

	Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Portsdown hill, Portsmouth
		The hill was so called because it overlooks the 'Port' for which see PORTSMOUTH.
		over Portsdown Hill, whence I intended to show George the harbour and the fleet, and (of still more importance) the spot on which we signed the 'HAMPSHIRE PETITION,' in 1817;...
		On the highest point of the hill is a pyramid erected to the memory of Lord Nelson, by thosse who fought under him at Trafalgar.
	www.envf.port.ac.uk /hantsgaz/hantsgaz/s0005411.htm (497 words)

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