Weald

Flowers or Donations if desired to Hospice in the Weald.

Judges described the Weald of Kent landmark as ‘a beautiful venue that would provide many lovely memories for the future’.

Mr. Ellis attended the Harrow Weald County School, but dropped out at 16 to focus on his writing.

Passed away peacefully at the Hospice in Weald.

And children’s toy shop The Entertainer – at Bishops Weald House off – also closed at the weekend.

Family flowers only please but donations if so desired can be made to Hospice in the Weald via the link below martin-john-read.

In early 1945 she went to RAF North Weald, near Epping Forest in Kent, a front line fighter pilot airfield.

North Weald Bassett is best known for the market just north west of the quiet village.

The 152-acre Kingscote Estate, in East Grinstead in the Sussex Weald, features the impressive property alongside a two-bedroom holiday cottage and 60 acres of vines on south facing slopes.

It has interests in a portfolio of eight UK onshore exploration, appraisal, development, and production assets in Weald and Purbeck-Wight basins of Southern England.

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Fantastic for picnics, roly-poly races, bluebell walks in spring, and far-reaching views across the gentle Weald.

Architecture Sussex's building materials reflect its geology, being made of flint on and near the South Downs and sandstone in the Weald. citation Brick is used across the county.

Churches in the High Weald are mostly on isolated ridge-top sites, away from the pioneer farms being established on the valley sides, as at Worth and Itchingfield to this day.

Compare also the Weald from the Saxon/German word Wald meaning 'wood'.

Drovers would divide their year between their 'winter house' in their parent village outside the Weald and their 'summer house' in the outlying woodland pasture up to convert miles away.

Economy Much of the Sussex Weald consists of wet sticky clays or drought-prone acid sands and is often broken up into to small irregular fields and woods by the topography, making it unsuitable for intensive arable farming.

Hastings suffers at a disadvantage insofar as growth is concerned because of its restricted situation, lying as it does with the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to the north.

The key sector stations were hit repeatedly: Biggin Hill and Hornchurch four times each; Debden and North Weald twice each.

These included extracts from Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and The Weald of Youth, as well as several war poems including Attack, The Dug-Out, At Carnoy and Died of Wounds, and postwar works.