The high downs around Brighton were once famous as a landscape of freedom, a place where you could walk without let or hindrance with only the music of skylarks above your head and the scent of thyme at your feet. The Downs were covered in a singular mantle, a coat of many colours, a precious fabric of fenceless ancient down pasture bejewelled by tiny flowers and grasses - humming with the busy-ness of bees and butterflies, ants and crickets.
Brighton Downs Alliance
Organisations and individuals campaigning for landscape-scale restoration, public access and community participation in our Brighton Downs Estate
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