West Sussex developed distinctive land uses along with its neighbours in the weald. |
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To the Anglo-Saxons a weald was a woodland and a mountain was a dun. |
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I suspect they are a strictly local phenomenon, hanging around in festoons in The Weald. |
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It has long been an important industry in the Weald, supplying the essential fuel for ironworking in the area. |
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Born in the Weald of Kent, Caxton went to London at the age of 16 to apprentice to a mercer. |
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Museums display a few French cast iron mortars, and in the 17th and 18th centuries fine decorated firebacks were cast in the Sussex and Kentish Weald. |
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Clearance of woodland and heath continued, especially in the Weald of Kent and Sussex, in the Chiltern hills, and in the Arden district of Warwickshire. |
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It was originally known as the Historic Aircraft Flight and was based for a short time at Biggin Hill until moving to RAF North Weald. |
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The forests of the Weald were often used as a place of refuge and sanctuary. |
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The Weald once was covered with forest, and its name, Old English in origin, signifies woodland. |
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The term is still used today, as scattered farms and villages sometimes refer to the Weald in their names. |
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The rocks of the central part of the anticline include hard sandstones, and these form hills now called the High Weald. |
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The peripheral areas are mostly of softer sandstones and clays and form a gentler rolling landscape, the Low Weald. |
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Many important fossils have been found in the sandstones and clays of the Weald, including, for example, Baryonyx. |
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Colleges include The College of Richard Collyer, Central Sussex College, Northbrook College and The Weald School. |
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The Weald was used for centuries, possibly since the Iron Age, for transhumance of animals along droveways in the summer months. |
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The pattern of droveways which occurs across the rest of the Weald is absent from these areas. |
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Before then, the Weald was used as summer grazing land, particularly for pannage by inhabitants of the surrounding areas. |
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He assumed the rate of erosion was around one inch per century and calculated the age of the Weald at around 300 million years. |
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Cricket is generally thought to have been developed in the early medieval period among the farming and metalworking communities of the Weald. |
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The western parts in Hampshire and West Sussex, known as the Western Weald, are included in the South Downs National Park. |
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The salients could then be supplied along Watling Street, dividing the invaders into pockets south of the Weald in east Kent and around the Wash. |
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Much of the High Weald, the central part, is designated as the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
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It is in effect the eroded outer edges of the High Weald, revealing a mixture of sandstone outcrops within the underlying clay. |
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Otherwise the Low Weald retains its historic settlement pattern, where the villages and small towns occupy harder outcrops of rocks. |
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There are no large towns on the Low Weald, although Ashford, Sevenoaks and Reigate lie immediately on the northern edge. |
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The M25, M26 and M20 motorways all use the Vale of Holmesdale to the north, and therefore run along or near the northern edge of the Weald. |
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The Weald has its own breed of cattle, called the Sussex although it has been as numerous in Kent and parts of Surrey. |
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William Cobbett commented on finding some of the finest cattle on some of the region's poorest subsistence farms on the High Weald. |
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The Weald has been associated with many writers, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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The related game Stoolball is still popular in the Weald, mostly played by ladies teams. |
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The ancient droveways of Sussex linked coastal and downland communities in the south with summer pasture land in the interior of the Weald. |
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The heavily forested Weald made expansion difficult but also provided some protection from invasion by neighbouring kingdoms. |
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It is bounded on its northern side by a steep escarpment, from whose crest there are extensive views northwards across the Weald. |
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The South Downs National Park forms a much larger area than the chalk range of the South Downs and includes large parts of the Weald. |
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Both Upper and Lower Greensand outcrops appear in the scarp slopes surrounding the London Basin and the Weald. |
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The River Rother rises on the Weald and flows easterly to the east of Rye Bay. |
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From there, it spread via the Pays de Bray on the boundary of Normandy and then to the Weald in England. |
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In the High Weald Gills are deeply cut ravines, usually with a stream in the base which historically eroded the ravine. |
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The ironmasters of the Weald continued producing cast irons until the 1760s, and armament was one of the main uses of irons after the Restoration. |
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The Romans used the Weald for iron production on an industrial scale. |
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A view South across the Kent Weald from the North Downs Way near Detling. |
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Within its boundary are included not only the South Downs proper but also part of the western Weald, a geologically and ecologically quite different district. |
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With the Iron Age came the first use of the Weald as an industrial area. |
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Over the centuries, deforestation for the shipbuilding, charcoal, forest glass, and brickmaking industries has left the Low Weald with only remnants of that woodland cover. |
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Modern methods show the Weald to be between 20 and 30 million years old. |
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Other protected parts of the Weald are included in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. |
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There is also a memorial plaque at All Saints' Church, Harrow Weald. |
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The strait is believed to have been created by the erosion of a land bridge that linked the Weald in Great Britain to the Boulonnais in the Pas de Calais. |
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The fold formed during the Alpine orogeny, from the late Oligocene to middle Miocene as an uplifted form of the Weald basin through inversion of the basin. |
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This dome consists of an upper layer of chalk above successive layers of Upper Greensand, Gault Clay, Lower Greensand, Weald Clay, and Wealden sandstone. |
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They were attracted by the easy access for boats, sheltered areas of raised land for building, and better conditions compared to the damp, cold and misty Weald to the north. |
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The first British furnaces outside the Weald appeared during the 1550s, and many were built in the remainder of that century and the following ones. |
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