Downs, The North and South, two parallel ranges of low broad hills covered with a light soil and with a valley between, called the Weald, that extend eastward from Hampshire to the sea-coast, the North terminating in Dover cliffs, Kent, and the South in Beachy Head, Sussex; the South famous for the breed of sheep that pastures on them.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Downs, The * Doyle, Dr. Conan