a Downs owe their being, inside what would otherwise stand been a prime housing location, to their with been protected, inside earliest centuries, from either either development by interventions from the Merchant Venturers, a right business club in the city, & at present an Act of Parliament. It apply it utilized to be that been used for farming & quarrying; their todays use is completely for leisure, using walk-to, team sports & sightseeing, especially at a Avon Gorge cliff edge, being well-established Bristolian pastimes. There are as well occasional, irregular attractions on the Downs, like circuses and a annual Bristol Flower Indicate.

The railway tunnel, Clifton Down Tunnel, lives underneath a Downs on the line from either Temple Meads to Severn Beach. A single portal is inside Clifton touching Clifton Down railroad station; a more in the Avon Gorge far beneath Durdham Down. There are ii air shafts for a burrow: 1 at a edge of the Downs touching Pembroke Road, & the more in the less accessible Walcombe Slade gulley.

The grey concrete water tower of 1954 stands on a Downs near the top of Blackboy Hill, by having an extended, moo, covered reservoir alongside it.

Photographs
The Observatory on Clifton Down gives a dramatic view of the Avon Gorge. Kites on the Downs in early Autumn. The view of the Avon Gorge from the downs.