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Wolds

British  
/ wəʊldz /

plural noun

  1. a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Sykes was in Parliament for 27 years, eventually serving the Buckrose constituency in the Yorkshire Wolds.

From BBC Apr. 19, 2026

Charlie Dewhirst, who represents Bridlington and The Wolds, called on the government to publish a strategy to improve social mobility for young white men living in poorer communities.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2026

Colin was born in a farm cottage more or less opposite the village shop and has lived in Little Weighton, a small village in the Yorkshire Wolds, ever since.

From BBC Mar. 16, 2026

"Thirty-thousand years ago, you could have walked from the Wolds to the Continent, across a wet, boggy landscape of trees, open water, rivers, springs, bogs," he says.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2024

In going westward we come, at the village of North Cave, to the southern horn of the crescent of the Wolds.

From Yorkshire by Gordon Home

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