noun. Land characterized by downs.

noun. An area of rolling downs, often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone

"In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak."

brown-green  burnt-up  clifftop  close-shaven  country