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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… area of black soil 25 m. diam. is covered with lumps of limestone rubble and quantities of Roman pottery ( BNFAS, 4 … 963867), in a similar position to (2). Roman pottery and limestone rubble have been found (OS Record Cards). Fig. 28 … of Churchfield Farm on the N. side of the Lyveden Brook on limestone at 150 ft. above OD. Except for a small area of …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… while The Cottage in Roke is a smaller dwelling of painted limestone rubble with brick stacks, whose attic storey …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… centuries its extensive reserves of coal, ironstone, limestone, and clay were exploited, at times intensively as … Benthall Edge is formed by an outcrop of Silurian limestone. 89 About 1250 Philip of Benthall gave Buildwas … mid 1740s. In the 18th and 19th centuries vast amounts of limestone were got from Benthall Edge for fluxing and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… about 1000 acres, mostly good pasture land: there is a limestone-quarry. The living is a discharged rectory, valued …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… are built of flint rubble with dressings of clunch and limestone; the roofs are tiled. The Nave is the earliest part …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Portland and Purbeck stone ashlar in the chancel, flint, limestone rubble and squared Portland with some rough …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… harder quality, is extensively quarried for building, and limestone abounds. The living is a rectory, valued in the … and a better mode of drainage adopted. Quarries of limestone and roadstone are wrought in the parish. The road … It comprises by computation 5000 acres of fertile land: limestone of fine quality is quarried to a considerable …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… of flint-rubble and partly of red brick, with dressings of limestone, clunch and brick; the roofs are tiled and the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… in the parishes of Mordington and Cockburnspath; limestone, marl, and gypsum have been quarried, but to no … be very greatly improved. The substrata are principally limestone and clay-slate, the latter of which is quarried for … comprise granite, a blue stone called heathen stone, and limestone, of which last there are two or three quarries in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Hill, nearly m. N.E. of the church, is of the local limestone and was probably deposited and left protruding in a …