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A History of the County of Gloucester
… and expanded considerably after 1838, when the digging of clay and sand was permitted under licence from the … of shale from colliery spoil tips. The Brain family used clay from Trafalgar colliery at brickworks at Steam Mills; 98 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… registered a chapel at Lower Lydbrook and a room at Clay Lane, near Clearwell Meend, in 1813 7 and established a …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… road in 1992. 11 On the south side of Clearwell Meend at Clay Lane End, where the hamlet called Sling developed in the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ground; that the copyholders and all lawful commoners had clay, gravel, and fern for their necessary uses; that the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (Shotover Forest) called the Quarters, where the strong clay was well adapted for oaks. The coppices of the county …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the farm-buildings are indifferent. There are quarries of clay-slate in several parts, worked for various purposes. The … larger streams. The soil comprehends sand, gravel, loam, clay, and moss, and the ground therefore differs very much in … the river is a rich deep loam, with a slight admixture of clay; in the central parts of the parish, a light sand which, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… whereof the meadow-land is peaty, and the arable partly clay, and partly light and sandy. The road from Newport to … of York; containing, with the township of Thornton-le-Clay, and part of Flaxton-on-the-Moor, 370 inhabitants, of … meadow; the surface is generally flat, and the soil partly clay and partly sandy. The living is a rectory, valued in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, where on the high ground there is an outcrop of clay. The latter formed the basis of a large medieval deer … the parish and covered about 120 hectares on limestone and clay. It was probably constructed in 1230 when John, Earl of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inundates the lower grounds; the soil is a mixture of clay, gravel, and black loam. Limestone is quarried and burnt …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ft.) on the ridge in the east, where Greensand and silty clay give way to Oxford Clay, down to 130 m. (426 ft.) in the extreme west. 74 In …