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A History of the County of Sussex
… the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly beach. 79 A naval …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… The dressings are of limestone, clunch, Barnack, and a hard stone resembling purbeck; the roof of the chancel is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… 17th-century. Font: bowl plain, cylindrical, upper part of hard stone, with moulding at the top cemented on to it, …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… is contenit in the said supplicatioun. Quhilk being red, hard, and considerit be the saidis lordis, and thay …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was also a symbol of sadness. It affords a heavy, elastic HARD WOOD, used especially in the making of the BOW, hence 'a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. There are quarries of good limestone, and of a very hard freestone for building. The village, situated near the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… greater part of the riding, though not large, is extremely hard and durable. The only peculiar application of the … (which produces very luxuriant ling, bent, and rushes), a hard cemented reddish sand, or a grey sand. The basis of the … a fine loam, in many places rather stiff, resting upon a hard blue limestone. The bent generally covers a strong soil …