Wolds

/ 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

Example Sentences

We are sitting in her small cottage in East Keal, a quiet village on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and just a stone's throw from a number of RAF stations.

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Charlie Dewhirst, MP for Bridlington and The Wolds, has raised Mr Crockford's case with the Department of Health and the hospital trust.

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"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.

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Mike Padgett lives down the road from Market Weighton in the village of Sancton on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, an area popular with walkers.

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The palpable sense of anger seems out of keeping for this pretty market town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds.

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