Weald
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The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent. It
View south across the Weald of Kent as seen from the North Downs Way near Detling
Geology of south-eastern England showing the High Weald in yellow-green (9a) and the Low Weald in darker green (9); chalk downland is in pale green (6)
The Forest of Anderida during the Roman occupation of Britain
The bocage pattern of fields and woodland on the Surrey–West Sussex border between Ewhurst and Rudgwick
Chartwell
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Chartwell is a country house near Westerham, Kent, in South East England. For over forty years, it was the home of Sir Winston Churchill. He bought the property in September 1922 and lived there until
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…Windy Corner", in the Weald. Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman and a prolific writer himself, did much of his writing at his country house, Chartwell, near Westerham, which has extensive views over the Weald. The view from the house was of crucial importance to Churchill; he once remarked, "I bought…
View of Chartwell from the north-east
Chartwell – Clementine Churchill's "magnificent aerial bower" to the left
Chartwell was the base from which Churchill waged his campaign against Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement
German Panzers at Tobruk, June 1941. Closed up during the war, Chartwell remained Churchill's bolthole at times of crisis