QUINTESSENTIALLY medieval landscape, the Low Weald lies north of the Wealden greensand (sandstone of a greenish colour). It forms a broad, low-lying clay horseshoe shape—dominated by the Lower Cretaceous Weald Clay formation—around the older rocks of the High Weald. Together, they form an area the Saxons referred to as Andredsweald; an ancient forest—once estimated at more than 200,000 acres—covering a large part of the south-eastern counties of Kent, Sussex
