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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… to slits and the base of the walls coated with slimy clay to prevent the use of scaling ladders. A Scot described …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… soil is generally a strong wet loam, resting on a whitish clay marl. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's … of which is various, but chiefly incumbent upon strong clay, and well suited for the growth of grain: there are some … the soil is various, in some parts sand, in some clay, and in others a fertile loam. There is a handsome sheet …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… one main compartment, has a later S. chimney stack of clay bat with white brick top, and evidence for an original … has slated and gabled roof, white brick walls with some clay bat at the rear. The keystone over the arched entrance … six, of two storeys, or one and attics, in timber-framing, clay bat or white brick, are early 19th-century. (31) is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… vi. 220-2; xii (2), 680-11. Ibid.; Proc. C.A.S. lxx. 219; Clay, Horningsey, 20; C.R.O., 132/M 29-31. For Haviland, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… field, c. 205 a., east of which, across the brook, was Clay field, 211 a. East of the village was the Hales, c. 83 a., so named by 1300 and cropped by 1600 with Clay and Middle Sand fields. 97 About 500 a. were under …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… soil of Fen Drayton lies in the south-east upon Ampthill clay, in the north-west upon other clays and mudstone, mostly …
A History of the County of Stafford
… ware, light grey in colour and made from a mixture of clay and 'a species obtained from the coal mines'; he …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Sturton, union of East Retford, North-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of … the ecclesiastical district. The soil generally is a stiff clay, producing good wheat; coal and ironstone are wrought, … 2200 acres, of which the soil is mostly a strong clay; the village is situated on the south side of the vale …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… than two-thirds of which are pasture. The soil is a strong clay, and the grounds on the sea-shore, for about four miles, … survey 1492 acres; the soil for the most part is a stiff clay, and the surface rises considerably from two streams …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. above sea-level. Below the ridge the land is Oxford Clay, inclined E. and S. to the Stour and W. to its tributary … and Middle Farm, beyond the W. end of the street, are on Clay and appear to represent an extension of settlement from …