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A History of the County of Lancaster
… Bank Height, or Greet Hill, to over 1,100 ft. on Edgerton Moss. The subsoil of the former consists of the Coal …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is Leighton, below which is the level tract of Leighton Moss. The eastern slope leads into an open vale, bounded on … 58 An Inclosure Act for both Yealands, including Waitham Moss and Hilderstone Moss, was passed in 1777. Mrs. Sarah Gibson as lady of the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… and south-west are low-lying level tracts called White Moss and Storrs Moss respectively; in the pass between them is Yealand … is on a slightly higher piece of land to the east of White Moss. The south-eastern part is occupied by the northern spur …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Newcastle, loco George Featherstonehaugh, dismissed. Peter Moss to be a boatman at Newcastle, loco John Marley. Their …
Calendar of Treasury books
… water of South Esk over against Brechin Castle: and the moss or myre called Pittpollocks near the house of Findowrie: …
A History of the County of Stafford
… filling in of pits made at Pitts Hill Bank. 536 A Thomas Moss is said to have been making pottery at Goldenhill in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… soil in some parts is a strong loam formed of earth and moss, and in others a light loam intermixed in a few … and less fertile; and there are some large tracts of moss, and much waste land that might be reclaimed and brought …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… are meadow and pasture, and the large remainder moorland, moss, and waste. The surface is diversified with hills of … of the mountains and hills extend large tracts of peat-moss, providing abundance of fuel, which, when dried and … and sandy, but in some places a black loam, and in others moss: on the western coast the lands are subject to drifts of …