Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Weald, The

Weald, The, wooded tract, in SW. of Kent and E. of Sussex, 40 by 10 to 15 miles; is the remains of a Saxon forest which stretched 120 miles along the northern frontier of the South Saxon kingdom.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "wood"   (ADL Feature Type: "woods")
Administrative units: Kent AncC       Sussex AncC
Place names: THE WEALD     |     WEALD     |     WEALD THE
Place: Wealden

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