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  • The girl's school - Downend, which is also in South Gloucestershire - will be closed until

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

  • The girl's school - Downend, which is also in South Gloucestershire - will be closed until

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

  • When I judged Downend to be well abeam I turned and brought the sea on to her quarter, and set her on a course to pass some three miles off the Start.

    Movie Night 2010

  • By the time I had come to an end of my little jobs we were a considerable distance off the land; I could see the whole run of the coast from Downend in the east to the low land behind Bolt Tail in the west.

    Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

  • Van Sneck to carry the letter from the Continental to 15, Downend

    The Crimson Blind

  • Hatherly Bell turned up at Downend Terrace gay and debonair as if he had not a single trouble in the world.

    The Crimson Blind

  • At Downend Point the leading boat will halt and lie on her oars, dose inshore, while each successor pivots and spreads in echelon to starboard, keeping, as nearly as may be, two fathoms 'distance from her consort to port; all gradually, as the shore is approached, rounding up for a simultaneous attack in line.

    The Mayor of Troy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Berry, who is married and lives in a semi-detached house in Downend, Bristol, repeatedly declined to answer questions put to him by The Sunday Times at his home and by email last week.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • Berry, who is married and lives in a semi-detached house in Downend, Bristol, repeatedly declined to answer questions put to him by The Sunday Times at his home and by email last week.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • Thousands gathered at the Hare and Hounds at Downend on Boxing Day to watch more than 100 mounted followers take part in the hunt.

    Latest Isle of Wight News 2009

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