Weald (disambiguation)
The Weald /ˈwiːld/ is an intermittently wooded area between and east of the North and South Downs in Sussex, Kent and Surrey, South East England. It once had a nationally important iron industry.
Other places
Weald may also refer to the following places in England:
Buckinghamshire
- Lower Weald, Middle Weald and Upper Weald, hamlets in Calverton, Buckinghamshire
East Sussex
- The Wealden District
Essex
- The "North Weald Ridges and Valleys" landscape area including Epping Forest, Essex
- North Weald, a village in Essex
- Weald Country Park, Essex
Greater London
- Harrow Weald, London, a suburb, traditionally referring also to the Grim's Dyke Hills
Kent
- The "Kentish High Weald" landscape area[1]
- Sevenoaks Weald, a village also known as Weald, Kent
- Weald of Kent Grammar School in Tonbridge
- Weald of Kent is a proposed UK parliament constituency which would include wards from the Ashford, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Wells districts. [2]
Oxfordshire
- Weald, Oxfordshire, a village
In literature
- A land called the Weald is the fictional setting of Lois McMaster Bujold's The Hallowed Hunt
References
- Kent County Council - Landscape Assessment
- Electoral Calculus https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/cgi-bin/calcwork.py?postcode=tn17+4aa
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