weald in A Sentence

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    Weald means wilderness or forest.

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    many were built in the following decades in the Weald, where the iron industry perhaps reached its peak about 1590.

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    The first British furnaces outside the Weald appeared during the 1550s, and many were built in the remainder of that century and the following ones.

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    The ironmasters of the Weald continued producing cast irons until the 1760s, and armament was one of the main uses of irons after the Restoration.

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    The very first British furnaces beyond the Weald appeared during the 1550s, and many were developed in the rest of that century and the subsequent ones.

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    They remained few in number until about 1530 but many were built in the following decades in the Weald, where the iron industry perhaps reached its peak about 1590.

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    All that can be said with a fair degree of certainty is that its beginning was earlier than 1550, somewhere in south-east England within the counties of Kent, Sussex and Surrey, most probably in the region known as the Weald.

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