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Weald
The Weald is an area in South East England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and Surrey. It has three separate parts: the sandstone "High Weald" in the centre; the clay "Low Weald" periphery; and the Greensand Ridge, which stretches around the north and west of the Weald and includes its highest points. The Weald once was covered with a vast forest, and its name, Old English in origin, signifies ''woodland.'' The term is still used today, as scattered farms and villages sometimes refer to the Weald in their names.
==Etymology==
The name "Weald" is derived from the Old English ', meaning "forest" (cognate of German ''Wald'', but unrelated to English "wood", which has a different origin). This comes from a Germanic root of the same meaning, and ultimately from Indo-European. ''Weald'' is specifically a West Saxon form; wold is the Anglian form of the word.〔''Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'', edited by C. T. Onions, Oxford, 1966.〕 The Middle English form of the word is ''wēld'', and the modern spelling is a reintroduction of the Anglo-Saxon form attributed to its use by William Lambarde in his ''A Perambulation of Kent'' of 1576.〔Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989〕
In the Anglo-Saxon period, the area had the name ''Andredes weald'', meaning "the forest of Andred", the latter derived from ''Anderida'', the Roman name of present-day Pevensey. The area is also referred to in Anglo-Saxon texts as ''Andredesleage'', where the second element, ''leage,'' is another Old English word for "woodland", represented by the modern ''leigh''.〔Eilert Ekwall, ''The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names'', Oxford, 1936, under "Weald" and "Andred"〕
The adjective for "Weald" is "Wealden".
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