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	Fisheries.co.uk - Twyford Farm Fishery, Evesham, Worcestershire
		Developed and managed by former England Ladies Team manager May Vince and her son Stuart, Twyford Farm Angling comprises a 40-peg one-and-a-half acre pool and a one-and-a-half mile medium-paced stretch of the Middle Avon which holds 115 pegs and is regarded by many anglers to be amongst the finest fisheries on the entire river.
		Reached down a track which runs through a typical Evesham apple and plum orchard, this well-kept pool may look more at home in a Local Authority park but in fact holds some top quality fish including specimen perch to 5lbs, carp to 30lbs and roach to 3lbs.
		Regarded by anglers internationally as one of the prime stretches of the River Avon for float fishing, Twyford Farm Angling's one-and-a-half mile stretch has been a regular venue for the Drennan Super League (West Midlands) and is ranked as one of the top five river venues in the UK for match fishing.
	www.fisheries.co.uk /twyford/index.htm (1342 words)

	down - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The district council of Down was created in October 1973, when the six historic counties...
		Down (county), historic county in the south-east of Northern Ireland, bounded by Antrim and Belfast Lough to the north, the Irish Channel to the...
		Downs, general term for any undulating tract of upland too light in soil for cultivation.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /down.html (243 words)

	Twyford Parish Council - History of Twyford
		Evidence of Roman occupation of Twyford around 2-3 AD emerged with the discovery at the end of the 19th Century of extensive remains of a Roman villa of that period when a Winchester solicitor, Edward Shenton, built a house at what is now the corner of Roman Road and Park Lane.
		From the middle of the 10th Century, the Manor of Twyford was joined to that of Lower Marwell, a couple of miles to the South, and confirmed as granted to the bishop by King Edred who reigned from 946 - 955, and again in AD 984, in a Charter of King Ethelred.
		It was Mr Davies who, riding across Twyford Down one 7th October in a thick fog, was in danger of falling into the chalk pit at the corner of the turning to St Cross, and saved himself by hearing the Twyford bells, and so realising his position and danger.
	www.twyfordpc.hants.gov.uk /history.htm (2022 words)

	Twyford Down -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Twyford Down is an area of (additional info and facts about downland) downland lying to the southeast of (A city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire) Winchester, (A county of southern England on the English Channel) Hampshire, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		The summit, known as Deacon Hill, is at the western end of the hill.
		The (additional info and facts about Dongas) Dongas were the most prominent protest group who set up home on the site.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tw/twyford_down.htm (158 words)

	Dongas road protest group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dongas road protest group were a protest group in England noted for their occupation of Twyford Down outside Winchester, Hampshire.
		This was a protest against the M3 motorway extension which would destroy some of the environment there.
		After they were driven from Twyford Down by bulldozers, they moved to Bramdean Common.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dongas_road_protest_group (199 words)

	Engineering Design for Sustainable Development
		Similarly, the story of Twyford Down has been presented to the world in a simplified and one-sided way - another battle lost and the ugliest road cutting in southern England, which is of course the bit that everyone sees when they drive down the M3.
		However, it is a particular irony that the planning gains that came out of Twyford Down set a standard which, if emulated on similar schemes, ought to take the sting out of future road battles, at least as far as the landscape is concerned.
		On Twyford Down 1.91 hectares of SSSI were lost, but a total of 7.2 hectares of species-rich grassland were created along the old route of the A33 and on nearby arable land from which the topsoil had been removed.
	www7.caret.cam.ac.uk /twyford_intro.htm (2063 words)

	Guardian \| Stephen Ward
		Ward was a pioneering anti-roads campaigner who broke down the barriers between the very correct, traditional middle-class campaigners trying to protect their own patches, and the passionate 1990s direct action movement.
		At Twyford he was, with others, injuncted to stay away from the protests and threatened with a million-pound damages claim by the government.
		He died on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the worst violence on Twyford Down, and when those gathered on the hill for a reunion heard the news, it was greeted as if by a tribe having lost one of its own.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4567294-103684,00.html (578 words)

	Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal - Summer 1993
		Among the people drawn to the area was a group of communalists who camped on the site and declared themselves the "Dongas Tribe." Last December, however, their effort to save Twyford Downs ended in a frenzy of state-sponsored violence.
		Twyford is not just a local issue but a national issue -- it has become the symbol of nationwide opposition to the DoT's plans to cover Britain's countryside with an ever-expanding network of dual-carriage roadways.
		Prime Minister John Major, made much of signing the Biodiversity Convention at Rio, but the destruction of Twyford Down (among the most biodiverse things Britain has got) was secured by the government negotiating with the European Commission (EC) at Maastricht.
	www.earthisland.org /eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=772&journalID=72 (1024 words)

	New Statesman - Do we have to set England alight again?
		On the other side stood Twyford Down, a beautiful, calm, green hill dotted with historic monuments and rare plants, rabbit holes and twisted copses.
		Twyford Down was the first of the road protests that spread across Britain in the 1990s.
		We had lost Twyford Down, Penn Wood, Solsbury Hill, but we seemed, in the end, to have won the war.
	www.newstatesman.com /200306300008 (1633 words)

	The Ecologist - Archive Detail
		On the other side is Twyford Down – a great, green beautiful hump of ancient land, ringed with hill-forts and ancient mazes, dotted with historic monuments and rare plants.
		The Down was to be destroyed in order to extend the M3 motorway from Winchester to the south coast, thus saving the hard-pressed driver 12 minutes on his journey from London to Southampton.
		In fact, though, the struggle to save Twyford Down was just one of the battles that the road-protest movement would have to lose before – unexpectedly and quite massively – it won the war.
	www.theecologist.org /archive_detail.asp?content_id=257 (2794 words)

	Newsmedianews \| History of the M3 motorway in Hampshire, UK
		History of the M3 motorway in Hampshire, UK Twyford Down and St Catherine's Hill are names that to the people of mid-Hampshire became synonymous with modern day history after the Government's transport department sheered a gigantic motorway cutting through one of the most protected sections of landscape in the UK.
		Twyford Down had for many years been designated as both an SSSI (Site of special scientific interest) and an AONB (area of outstanding natural beauty).
		Within two-and-a-half years, the peaceful and proud Twyford Down had given way to the savage scar of a gigantic cutting and the reddish grey expanse of asphalt.
	www.newsmedianews.com /m3.shtml (1119 words)

	An Caorthann - Samhain '94: We are the old people ... we are the new people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Twyford Down was not just important to the local people who loved the area and fought throught years of public enquiries and appeals; it represented the futility of much of our so-called "planning system".
		The resistance that met the machines which destroyed Twyford Down galvanised a generation disillusioned with the accepted forms of protest - writing letters that are never answered, lobbying impregnable MPs and attending demos that are forgotten the next day.
		Within a month after the stone on Twyford Down was unveiled, the cutting was opened and now what used to be a peaceful nature reserve is as noisy and polluted as any other motorway verge.
	www.iol.ie /~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/zine/sam94/roads.html (946 words)

	\| Floralocale \|
		Due to concern about losses of habitat, it was proposed to recreate downland on top of Twyford Down, on an area of arable land surrounding the Arethusa Clump, and on the restored route of the existing Winchester bypass (A33).
		The second area was located at the northern end of Twyford Down in as limb of the St Catherine's Hill SSSI, known locally as "the Dongas".
		However, at Twyford Down the Highways Agency is funding botanical and invertebrate monitoring for a period of ten years.
	www.floralocale.org /content.asp?did=23875 (2496 words)

	ACF - Organise!: Twyford Down and the State
		Twyford Down is a beautiful area of high ground lying SE of Winchester in Hampshire.
		But the Twyford Down affair, like the planned destruction of Oxleas Wood for similar reasons, is part of an international attack on the countryside and the environment for the needs of capitalism.
		The fight at Twyford Down was bogged down in legalistic appeals to the European Court, and a letter-writing campaign to the Government and the Queen!
	flag.blackened.net /af/org/twyford.html (679 words)

	Mike Holderness: A quite different drum
		They scrambled down the bank onto the Winchester by-pass, crawling at its usual needs-a-motorway pace, its good burghers in fair numbers 'til now honking their support for the (mostly) hippy anti-road rabble as they, er, drove past.
		Twyford on June 2 was not really an anti-road protest, nor even totally a celebration of the right to be different, in the time and place of one's choosing, Criminal Justice or not.
		When a bunch of disorganised protesters first chained themselves to the gates of Greenham Common Air base, declaring that they'd stay until they got a television debate (wasn't it to be with the Minister of Defence?), the old hands put their heads in their hands and groaned.
	www.poptel.org.uk /nuj/mike/theatre.htm (1450 words)

	Twyford Parish Council - Twyford Meads Information
		Here, at Twyford Meads, a leat takes water from the Itchen Navigation and is then channelled across the meadows by a series of carriers running along the top of the ridges.
		This caused the water to trickle down the banks and at the bottom of each ridge a drainage channel took the water back to a main drain and eventually to the River Itchen.
		Twyford Parish Council own the fishing rights on the east bank of that section of the Itchen Navigation that is adjacent to Twyford Meads.
	www.twyfordpc.hants.gov.uk /meadsinfo.htm (1266 words)

	ROADBLOCK: How people power is wrecking the roads programme. London: Alarm UK, 1995. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Twyford Down - the last three-mile gap in the motorway from Southampton to London - also stands as an example of the dangers of ignoring the corridor effect, of the need to examine strategic schemes in their entirety.
		Twyford Down was the catalyst which unleashed a torrent of creative protest that carried over into other road protests and, by the mid-1990s, is energising a range of campaigns on green issues like animal welfare and land reform.
		At that stage the Twyford Down protest was still to reach its dramatic climax, the Oxleas Wood climbdown was six months away, and the victories at Preston and in Yorkshire were still to come.
	www.roadblock.org.uk /alarmuk/roadblock.html (13711 words)

	Press Articles - The end of polite resistance
		Later, they were thunderstruck when a local rambler told them that the down was to be parted to make way for an extension of the M3.
		An "occupation" at Twyford Down attracted 5,000 people, and the London rally called to protest against the Criminal Justice Act in October pulled in 100,000.
		Twyford Down, protesters pointed out, was destroyed because there were no legitimate means of defending it.
	www.mcspotlight.org /media/press/times_8mar97.html (1635 words)

	Amilas Ponies — Twyford M’s
		Amilas stud as a strong foundation of Twyford breeding and specifically the Twyford 'M' line Fronbach Cariad, dam of our stallion Norash Beauson, is a daughter of Supreme Champion Twyford Major and G.G. Grand daughter of Twyford Moonshine.
		Staines Melody is also a Twyford 'M' line pony being a grand-daughter of Twyford Mallard and carrying tail female line directly to Dinas Moonstone the foundation of the Twyford M line.
		At Trefaes the mare Trefaes Tail is by Twyford Mowgli.
	www.angelfire.com /biz5/amilas/twyford.html (546 words)

	The Mean Fiddler - at it again....
		Twyford Down is now permanently split by the cutting that carries the M3 extension on a route chosen only for maximum convenience for the City of Winchester.
		Sadly, at the first serious test since Twyford Down Winchester has yet again failed to respect the landscape in which it is set.
		If you were at Twyford Down, the site was the next hill to the north with a small grove of trees at the top of the hill.
	www.urban75.com /Rave/fiddler.html (948 words)

	Twyford Down - photo gallery
		Twyford Down was the scene of a lengthy environmental battle in 1993-5.
		A huge protest went ahead in the summer of 1995, and thousands of people assembled to march down the unopened motorway as a protest against the horrendous environmental impact of the road.
		It was an incredibly hot day, and I was moved and touched by the huge mass of people who had turned up to demonstrate their opposition to this unnecessary scheme.
	www.urban75.org /photos/gallery/pic25.html (209 words)

	Monbiot.com » Multi-issue Politics
		He set off down the Christchurch Road one night dressed as an eight-foot alien, equipped with latex tentacles and metal jaws.
		So they were thunderstruck when a local rambler told them that the down was to be parted to make way for an extension of the M3.
		As news spread, and the protesters distinguished themselves with feats of bravery – leaping onto moving machinery, throwing themselves down in the path of aggregate trucks – they won support from the most unlikely quarters, from local landowners to the European Environment Commissioner.
	www.monbiot.com /archives/1997/02/21/multi-issue-politics (2018 words)

	BBC Radio 4 - Open Country - 13 March 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Richard Uridge travels to Twyford Down near Winchester, one of the few chalk downlands in southern England.
		Twyford Down is criss-crossed with dongas, ancient pathways around St Catherine's Hill, made by people walking their animals into market and travelling between settlements.
		Twyford Down made headline news ten years ago when it was the focus of one of the first road protests in Britain.
	fuzzball.homeunix.net /radio4/factual/opencountry_20040313.shtml (227 words)

	Paul Kingsnorth - One No, Many Yeses - Real England - Environmental and Political Journalist and Author
		It was the first time I had been anywhere near Twyford since the great road was forced through that sad old hillside five years ago.
		"This is Twyford Down, apparently," said my father, who was driving, as we began to shear through the cutting where half a hillside used to be.
		And that's exactly the perspective that condemned Twyford Down to the fate it suffered just a few years ago, and from which it can never recover.
	www.paulkingsnorth.net /twyford.html (706 words)

	CPB Twyford - News
		CPB Twyford has strengthened its Board with the appointment of three members of the current executive management team as directors.
		Mr Doerr remains chairman of the CPB Twyford Shareholder Committee.
		CPB Twyford is currently the number two wheat breeder in the UK.
	www.cpb-twyford.co.uk /compdetails.asp?id=1875&sec_id=52 (206 words)

	BBC - Southampton - Features - Spiritual Places - Twyford Down
		Twyford Down near Winchester made it to the Top Ten sites nominated for the BBC's 2003 Spiritual Places poll.
		For centuries, Twyford Down has been regarded as one of the most mystical places in the South.
		Twyford Down became a byword for a new generation of protests and brought together people from all over the country, united in their opposition to the scheme.
	www.bbc.co.uk /southampton/features/spiritual_places/spiritual_places2.shtml (491 words)

	New Statesman: Do we have to set England alight again? Road protesters thought they could roll up their sleeping bags ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Eventually the police, who had spent hours vainly ordering us down through loud hailers, brought out their hydraulic bolt cutters and climbed up to cut us down.
		Twyford Down was the first of the road protests that spread across Britain in the 1990s.
		We had lost Twyford Down, Penn Wood, Solsbury Hill, but we seemed, in the end, to have won the war.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4644_132/ai_105366832 (1612 words)

	:: Schnews :: SchNEWS OF THE WORLD
		activists were getting established, getting together, blatting down to Twyford for a weekend or day of action, spending time networking what was going on - things were starting to wake up again after a lull in activity generally in the ongoing history (+ her story) of the direct action movement.
		Twyford was to catalyse this process and kick things off big styley.
		The second stage of the Twyford campaign is probably the one most people remember, because numbers kicked off exponentially.
	www.schnews.org.uk /sotw/twyford-down-plus10.htm (873 words)

	Guardian \| The fight to save our national parks
		I find it incredible that the only means of protecting a national park from environmental vandalism motivated by greed is to conduct an illegal occupation where members of the public must risk arrest and physical danger.
		Your report compares the protests to those conducted at Twyford Down, but there is one significant difference.
		While the manner of protest may be similar, the Twyford Down and Newbury protests were against a road, which irrespective of any other arguments, is a facility which is of some benefit to the public.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4860220-103500,00.html (333 words)

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