South Downs
Before I came to East-Meon, the soil of the hills was a shallow loam with flints, on a bottom of chalk; ...
The place is described in text Walton 1820s
- hill - Hampshire
run parallel to the North Downs [ie EW], at about 10 miles to the south. They have a breadth of about 4 miles. Butser Hill (917 feet), the highest of these, is sometimes considered to form the western termination of the South Downs; the high ground to the west being regarded as part of the great mass of chalk which stretches over Hampshire, Wilts, and Dorset. ...
