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Weald the. a region of SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex between the North Downs and the South Downs: formerly forested How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palaeozoic strata, in parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in Prof. William Caxton, as he himself tells us, was born in Kent in the Weald. These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs. |
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