Annotation:South Downs (2) (The)
SOUTH DOWNS [2], THE. English, Reel or Hornpipe (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The South Downs" is a reel or hornpipe contained in a small volume of original tunes entitled A Collection of Country Dances and Waltzes (c. 1797), composed anonymously by "A Young Lady", however, according to a Ms. note on the Royal Academy of Music Library copy, the composer was a Miss Newberry. Since many of the titles are named for Sussex and its locales, it can be assumed Miss Newberry was a resident of the county.
The wikipedia:South_Downs is the name given to a range of chalk hills that extends for about 260 square miles across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the east.
