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A History of the County of Shropshire
… of the township, and wetter lake clay giving way to the peat-filled Weald Moors in the north. 26 Before the drainage …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… procured from the neighbourhood of the latter place, and peat is obtained plentifully from the mosses in the district. … mixed with gneiss and granite. There are some tracts of peat-moss, in which remains of oak, hazel, and birch are … sand, clay, and marl; that in North Yell is chiefly a peat-moss: each produces good oats and potatoes, but barley …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… also found south of the Fleam Dyke, and a narrow band of peat marks the parish boundary in the east. The Fleam Dyke, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… here, and cured in a peculiar manner, by the smoke of peat. So delicate is this fish that it can rarely be sold … On the higher land it is poor, consisting chiefly of peat-moss and moor; but in the northern quarter it improves … with four or five feet of water; the appearance is that of peat-moss, and at low water the stumps of trees, with their …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… from its own mines, is the common fuel of this county; but peat is burned in some places, and that which is obtained in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and connecting this parish with the post-town of Turriff. Peat and wood are the principal fuel, but coal is brought …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… that coal might be obtained on the estate of Gargunnock: peat is plentiful on parts of the Lennox range, and is … and cultivated, and the rest supplies the people with peat for fuel. Grain of all kinds is produced, as well as …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… for pasturing their flocks; and many acres of peat, which supply them with fuel. Gellygaer abounds in … districts, especially in the hollows, consists of black peat, varied in drier situations by a brown gravelly earth; …
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Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II
… of Hastings free chapel of St. Mary, 153, 163, 213, 247. Peat, Peter atte, 211. Peauton, John de, 247. Peccham. See …