Wealden
/ˈwiːld(ə)n
/adjective British
1Relating to the Weald.About 1340 Sir John de Pulteney, a London merchant and financier and four times mayor of London, constructed a splendid house of Wealden sandstone....
- The practice came about in consequence of this venture, and was loosely based on a Wealden custom at hop-picking time.
- However, this concept is challenged by the discovery of different pollen cones from the Arkansas and English Wealden localities.
1.1Denoting a style of timber house built in the Weald in the late medieval and Tudor periods.In the decade preceding 1348, we find a number of exceptionally large and lavish timber-framed buildings, including a giant Wealden house and a ‘skyscraper’ with a stone undercroft....
- He was talking about Cragside, that wonderful faux Wealden house in Northumberland with all the gadgets.
1.2 Geology Relating to or denoting a series of Lower Cretaceous estuarine and freshwater deposits best exemplified in the Weald.Because of their non-marine depositional setting, the Wealden sediments are not biostratigraphically constrained with a high degree of certainty....
- Interestingly, regional seismic and borehole studies of the Lower Cretaceous in the English Channel indicate the presence of unconformities in the basal Wealden sediments, especially towards the basin margins.
- The close proximity of the Isle of Wight-Purbeck fault zone probably also had an effect on Wealden sedimentation in the Wessex Basin, as the downthrow on these faults decreases to the west.