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  • All that weekend, the police searched for her on the North Downs.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • The roads were dark along the wooded hills of the North Downs.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • It was clear enough to see the hills on the far side of London - the North Downs in Surrey perhaps?

    Pictures from Ally Pally Penny 2008

  • It was clear enough to see the hills on the far side of London - the North Downs in Surrey perhaps?

    Archive 2008-10-01 Penny 2008

  • The North Downs were hidden, far away beyond the Wealden Heights.

    The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

  • The drive from Billingshurst to Bath takes you along the edge of the North Downs, as you cut across the south of England towards Winchester.

    Bluebell woods sbisson 2004

  • He certainly fit the classic commuter profile, Kincaid said as they came around a curve and gaps in the trees revealed a sweeping view across the North Downs.

    Mourn Not Your Dead Deborah Crombie 1996

  • He certainly fit the classic commuter profile, Kincaid said as they came around a curve and gaps in the trees revealed a sweeping view across the North Downs.

    Mourn Not Your Dead Deborah Crombie 1996

  • He certainly fit the classic commuter profile, Kincaid said as they came around a curve and gaps in the trees revealed a sweeping view across the North Downs.

    Mourn Not Your Dead Deborah Crombie 1996

  • But King Arvedui held out upon the North Downs until the last, and then fled north with some of his guard; and they escaped by the swiftness of their horses.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

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