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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A range of chalk hills in northeast England along both banks of the Humber River.

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  • We were following a fine straight road, paved with crushed stone and wide enough for two carts side by side, across a region of Incus called the Wolds.

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  • We were following a fine straight road, paved with crushed stone and wide enough for two carts side by side, across a region of Incus called the Wolds.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • We were following a fine straight road, paved with crushed stone and wide enough for two carts side by side, across a region of Incus called the Wolds.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The situation elsewhere in North Yorkshire can be completely different, especially with the Wolds which is so geographically different. "

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  • For the first we head to the Wolds and Sincil Bank, where both Scott Walden and Harry Winckworth have highlighted the case of Lincoln City's Grant Brown.

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  • The location – on the edges of two designated areas of outstanding natural beauty, the Howardian Hills and the Yorkshire Wolds – is unbeatable.

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  • The local wildlife group, the Wolds and Riverbank Countryside Society, had organised a walk from the village through Welton Dale.

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  • For the first we head to the Wolds and Sincil Bank, where both Scott Walden and Harry Winckworth have highlighted the case of Lincoln City's Grant Brown.

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  • But tucked in their folds are beautiful valleys and handsome villages, populated by locals, pig farmers and the odd tourist hunting down the Wolds 'palatial stately homes, such as Burton Agnes, or en route for Beverley or the coast.

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  • Schools "Good" primaries, Ofsted says, include Garton-on-the-Wolds CofE, Sledmere and Lockington; Bishop Wilton CofE and St Mary andSt Joseph RC are "good" with some "outstanding" features; Nafferton is "outstanding".

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