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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chiefly beech, and 250 waste land. The soil is principally chalk, with gravel and clay in some places; the surface is …
Old and New London
… The ground in the neighbourhood is intersected with chalk foundations, and in 1836 a Roman tessellated pavement …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a. 4 The same geological sequence of greensand valley and chalk down occurs here as in the next parish of Norton … the last days of the old sheep and corn husbandry of the chalk country. In 1839 about half the parish had been arable … large-scale production of milk for the London market on chalk farms. 18 The first clothier known to have worked in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… BLACK LEAD, WAD. Sources: Acts, Inventories (early). Black chalk [black white and red chalk] It is not clear what this was and whether it is the … the Dictionary Archive were the same. In the first, black chalk was listed among the miscellaneous stock of a grocer …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… pencils; black lead and slate pencils; black lead and red chalk pencils; black lead and camel hair pencils; black and … to have been a specialist trade, hence 'Black Lead and Red Chalk Pencil Maker' [Newspapers (1780)]. Although available …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… market'. Simmonds added that 'Prussian blue, French chalk, indigo, turmeric and soapstone' were used to 'face' …
Old and New London
… right-hand side of the same street stands an old rubble chalk wall, even older. It is just past the new house of the …
Old and New London
… feet in depth. They are cut out of a stratum of chalk and flint, and communicate by small avenues; the bottom …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and south-west band. In each wing of the tithing chalk outcrops and the land rises, to 170 m. at the south tip … of Upper Greensand outcrops between the Gault and the chalk, and a strip of Lower Greensand outcrops in the … a narrow strip of alluvium. Blackland's fields lay on the chalk and, in the north-east, on the Upper Greensand; meadows …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Farm, cottage, nearly 1 m. N.E. of the church. b(14). Chalk's Farm, house, about 1 m. S.W. of the church, has been …