Wolds
Britishplural noun
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In March, the Conservative MP 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 • Apr. 14, 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
He spotted on butterfly distribution maps that there were no marbled whites across a 90-mile swath between the Midlands and the Yorkshire Wolds.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2020
About 20 graves dating to the fifth and sixth centuries have been found in the Lincolnshire Wolds including one containing a woman cradling a baby.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2018
It is much more like a Lincolnshire Wolds farmhouse than an inn.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)
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