(n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ship has joined vessels from Italy , Germany and Ireland in the international mission codenamed Operation Weald.
(2) During both of my visits to the camp I met residents who fear seeing their countryside devastated, who cannot understand why the government has given permission to drill in Lower Stumble, even though the site is located in the High Weald, designated an "area of outstanding natural eauty".
(3) According to Kent county council, the new building is an annexe of an existing girls’ grammar school, Weald of Kent in Tonbridge, and therefore legal because grammars are still allowed to expand.
(4) It was left to Sunand Prasad, president of the RIBA, to point out how such recent buildings as the Downland Gridshell and the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex by Ted Cullinan, and even the structure of Richard Rogers's Barajas airport terminal in Madrid, were shaped by elemental forms found in nature as much as the architecture admired by the prince.
(5) The long-awaited report by the British Geological Survey (BGS) concludes that "a reasonable central estimate for shale oil is 4.4bn barrels in the ground" in the Weald basin – an area which lies under Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.
(6) The energy minister Michael Fallon denied he was disappointed that the BGS report said there was no shale gas in the Weald.
(7) It’s not a place we really want to go,” said Peter Woodman, headteacher of the Weald school in Billingshurst.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Year 7 pupils at morning break time at Weald of Kent grammar school.
(9) The oil industry has known since the second world war about the traditional oil reserves in the Weald area and 13 wells are currently in production.
(10) Kent county council claims the Sevenoaks grammar would be a satellite of Weald of Kent, with the same headteacher, curriculum and philosophy.
(11) But the BGS conclusion that "there is unlikely to be any shale-gas potential" in the Weald area is a major blow to ministers' wider hopes that shale could be found throughout the country.
(12) The original proposal, for a new co-educational annexe to the Weald of Kent girls’ grammar school in Tonbridge, a full 10 miles away, was rejected by Michael Gove in 2013 and a revised single-sex proposal submitted in November 2014.
(13) A British Geological Survey (BGS) report on Friday said that the Weald basin, a Jurassic geological structure stretching from Wiltshire to Kent, between the North and South Downs, contained a large shale oil deposit.
(14) Government hopes that Britain can emulate the US by starting a shale-gas revolution have been knocked back after a long-awaited report unexpectedly concluded there was no potential in fracking for gas in the Weald region of southern England.
(15) The Weald basin includes the South Downs national park and several areas of outstanding national beauty.
(16) There is a good view across 15 miles of the Sussex Weald to Ashdown Forest.
(17) Weald of Kent already gets a lot of girls from Sevenoaks.” But for Mary Boyle, head of Knole academy, one of two all-ability schools in Sevenoaks, “an annexe is an outbuilding or a shed on the school property.
(18) And it is quite a journey, a cross-section of Sussex, cutting through the South Downs and the Weald, past fields, copses, sheep, cows and tractors, starlings and stately homes.
(19) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Bower admits there are many girls from wealthy backgrounds at Weald of Kent.
(20) There are two main routes from the Weald to the proposed annexe: one along winding roads that go through the shopping centre of Sevenoaks, the other along the busy A21.
Wealdish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England.