Situated in the Kent North Downs, Down House gave Darwin access to valleys in Downe and Cudham.

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The Tipton Oaks course dates from 1981, when a group of golfers from Tipton (population 206) decided over several pitchers of beer that they were tired of driving 20 miles north to play at the sand-greens course north of Downs (population 898).

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Captain Buzinov claimed to have predicted at least three senior sackings last year, together with various terrorist acts in the north Caucasus, the crash of an army transport plane in Siberia and the ups and downs of President Boris Yeltsin's health.

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