Wealden

The stratigraphic terminology of the Wealden is complex and rarely explained clearly: the mainland Wealden consists of the Hastings Beds Group and Weald Clay Group, and both of these units are subdivided into formations (for a good up-to-date review see Radley 2004).

Archive 2006-01-01 Darren Naish 2006

Above this bed lie those which have been called the Wealden, from their full development in the Weald of Sussex; and these as incontestably argue that the dry land forming the dirt-bed had next afterwards become the area of brackish estuaries, or lakes partially connected with the sea; for the Wealden strata contain exuviae of fresh-water tribes, besides those of the great saurians and chelonia.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

The past falls open unexpectedly, and its wider accretions and effacements – the lost forest of Andredesleage, the iguanodon bones Gideon Mantell discovered in the Wealden sandstone, the Piltdown Man forgery a century later – loom over the landscape she walks through.

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review 2011

There were similar results in places such as Elmbridge, New Forest, Wealden, Shepway, Teignbridge, Mendip and West Devon – and many more.

Lib Dem collapse in local elections is good news for David Cameron 2011

District Commander for Wealden, Chief Inspector Dick Coates, added: "This is a very sad event and members of my local neighbourhood team will be on hand in the Friston area over the coming days if any members of the public would like to pass on information or discuss local issues with them."

Two people found dead near Beachy Head in apparent murder suicide 2011

He was recently photographed at Wealden House the big Scientology center in East Grinstead.

Watch Neil Gaiman’s Short Film STATUESQUE Starring Bill Nighy and Amanda Palmer – Collider.com 2010

A Sussex country churchyard in October: the leaves on the trees are turning golden, in the distant Wealden valley autumnal mist is beginning to rise, crows are cawing overhead, sheep are bleating in a nearby field and I am standing in front of the dilapidated grave of one of England's greatest cricketers.

Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave Stephen Bates 2010

Tonight in a wet and windy Wealden village, I have ming mongs shouting in the smoking tent outside the pub and two cars with loud exhausts up and down all night.

Gary Newlove « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

These two sisters are bigwig Scienos, being the respective heads of recruiting in LA and the Wealden Center in East Grinstead.

Neil Gaiman Says 'Graveyard Book' Movie is Dead, For Now « FirstShowing.net 2010

There is more about the line and its prospects of revival on the Wealden Line site, from which I borrowed this photograph of the disused trackbed at Barcombe Mills.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008