The Blackdown Hills offer a picteresque example of what one might envision of the English countryside, featuring rolling hills, roaming livestock, and the occasional warm and welcoming village. The location of Blackdown Hills is woven into Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" as the poem reads:

            And airy summits, that above the mole [497]
            Rise in green beauty; and the beacon'd ridge
            Of Black-down shagg'd with heath, and swelling rude
            Like a dark island from the vale; its brow [500]
            Catching the last rays of the evening sun

The Blackdown Hills are specifically referred to in line 499, described as "shagg'd with heath," which is kind of landscape characterized by various kinds of grasses and heather. In accordance to Smith's idealization and romanticization of the English countryside as well as the nation as a whole, this mention of Blackdown Hills continues to express her feelings of awe and adoration for the world around her.

An example of heath.