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Downland Updates

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Downland Updates

You can find regular updates from our Downland team here.

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Downland Update December 2007
	Downland Clearing With winter arriving, now that flowers have gone to seed and invertebrates are dormant, the estate team is completing the final mowing on the downland. This includes areas of grassland upon the escarpment next to Eastbourne. If these areas are left for too long, bramble quickly takes hold and can smother the finer grassland species.

Downland Update June 2007
	Life Springs Up on the Downs With Spring rapidly evolving into early Summer and with a period of good rainfall in early May, there is now a quick succession of plants coming into flower. Cowslips and early flowering Orchids are now going to seed, to be replaced by a great range of flowers with common species including: yellow Birds Foot Trefoil...

Downland Update November 2006
	Cattle Grazing With winter looming we have now begun practical works on the Eastbourne Downs during the dormant period. Cattle grazing has started on the open downland area, with two compartments currently being grazed using livestock from neighbouring tenant farms. Currently this includes the steep escarpment overlooking Cow Gap between Whitbread...

Downland Update June 2006
	With a generally hot, dry and sunny June this year there are plenty of wild flowers to look out for. Around Beachy Head Bee Orchids are currently in flower and include the white petaled variety. On Belle Tout there is a particularly fine display of fine grasses, herbs including pink Thyme, white Dropwort, yellow Biting Stonecrop and Ling heather. Common...

Contact Details
Downlands Contact Form Location: 68 Grove Road		Tel: 01323 415267

Eastbourne Borough Council, Town Hall, Grove Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 4UG. Telephone: 01323 410000