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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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He moved to Bridlington, where his sister and elderly mother now lived, and began to paint the Yorkshire Wolds.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

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

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

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

The many interests that this singularly remote neighbourhood contains can be realized by making such a peregrination as we made through the Wolds.

From Yorkshire by Home, Gordon

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