Hampshire Downs
![The Hampshire Downs are one of the breadbaskets of Southern England. Here wheat is growing on the free draining chalk downs above Alresford.](/Images/godic/202501/17/Hampshire_Downland_above_Alresford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5078863007.jpg")
The Hampshire Downs form a large area of downland in central, southern England, mainly in the county of Hampshire. They are part of a belt of chalk downland that extends from the South Downs in the southeast, north to the Berkshire and Marlborough Downs, and west to the Dorset Downs.