weald

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On they glided; through dim villages, amid bare-branched wealds, and over creeping rivers, which shone like misty mirrors in the faint starlight, resting from time to time, for a few minutes, at the country stations.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

I had just returned from Switzerland, and the friends with whom I had been journeying in that land of all perfections had gone back to their home among the wealds and woods of Essex.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

The third were the towns which grew up in the wastes and wealds, with names of varied form but more modern origin.

From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant

Then went they forth in quest of the wealds, in troops and companies, wheresoever the country was defenceless.

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)

Of wylte, Dr. Ingram writes:—"This word has never been correctly explained; its original signification is the same, whether written felds, fields, velts, welds, wilds, wylte, wealds, walds, walz, wolds, &c. &c."

From Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850 by Various