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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.
Wealden is a local government district in East Sussex, England.Its council is based in Hailsham, the district's second largest town.The district also includes the towns of Crowborough, Polegate and Uckfield, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
Rother District covers two areas of relief: to the south, a section of the High Weald; and to the north the lower land, named the Rother Levels, across which flow the River Rother, which rises on the Weald and flows easterly towards Rye Bay, and its tributaries.
Other nearby settlements include Ticehurst, Burwash, Mayfield and Heathfield in East Sussex, and Lamberhurst, Hawkhurst and Cranbrook in Kent. Physically, Wadhurst lies on a high ridge of the Weald – a range of wooded hills running across Sussex and Kent between the North Downs and the South Downs. The reservoir of Bewl Water is nearby.
Wealden was a constituency [n 1] in East Sussex in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was represented by members of the Conservative Party since its creation in 1983. Its final MP from 2015 to 2024, Nus Ghani , is the first Muslim woman to be elected as a Conservative member of Parliament.
Sussex Weald (Sus-ix / ˈ w iː l d /) is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election . [ 3 ]
Burwash, archaically known as Burghersh, is a rural village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England.Situated in the High Weald of Sussex some 15 miles (24 km) inland from the port of Hastings, it is located five miles (8 km) south-west of Hurst Green, on the A265 road, and on the River Dudwell, a tributary of the River Rother.
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine East Sussex with West Sussex as a sub-region of the South East Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named ...