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View south across the Weald of Kent as seen from the North Downs Way near Detling. The Weald (/ ˈ w iː l d /) is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent.
The High Weald still has about 35,905 hectares (138.63 sq mi) of woodland, including areas of ancient woodland equivalent to about 7% of the stock for all England. [162] When the Anglo Saxon Chronicle was compiled in the 9th century, there was thought to be about 2,700 square miles (700,000 ha) of forest in the Sussex Weald. [156] [157]
Rudyard Kipling also wrote two Sussex stories involving fairies, Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and Rewards and Fairies (1910) setting them in the Sussex Weald. Harrow Hill near Worthing is the site of a small hillfort and some Neolithic flint mines. According to an old woman who lived on Lee Farm, the hill was the last home of the fairies in England.
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Geologically, East Sussex is part of southern anticline of the Weald: the South Downs, a range of moderate chalk hills which run across the southern part of the county from west to east and mirrored in Kent by the North Downs. To the north lie parallel valleys and ridges, the highest of which is the Weald itself (the Hastings beds and Wealden ...
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The Weald School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form. [1] It caters for around 1,700 pupils in years 7 to 13, including over 300 in its sixth form . The school opened in 1956, and celebrated its 60th anniversary in the academic year 2016–17.
Sussex Day is the county day for the historic county of Sussex in southern England and is celebrated on 16 June each year to celebrate the rich heritage [1] and culture of Sussex. [ 2 ] The event takes place on St Richard's Day, the feast day of St Richard of Chichester , [ 1 ] Sussex's patron saint .