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Survey of London
… and the whole internal space is marked out with chalk, in the most fanciful manner. Contiguous to this, are a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sited close to small streams that flow from the southern chalk downland towards the river. Some, including … Clopton, and Croydon lay upon the sharp slope where the chalk down rises from the flat gault-based clay beside the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… lies across a poorly defined escarpment. The N. part is on chalk, here covered by boulder clay forming a broad plateau … than 250 ft. above O.D. The rest of the parish, S. of the chalk scarp is on gault, and extends to the river Rhee at c. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Arundel and Madehurst. 10 The parish lies largely on chalk, overlain in the south-west by brickearth, valley … town and Pughdean bottom to the north are valleys in the chalk, in each of which a stream formed a pond. Swanbourne … in 1995 by High Street, climbing steeply the spur of chalk on which Arundel is built; c. 1200 it was described as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… return, he found the names of the officers written in chalk upon the doors of the apartments they had severally …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to have been applied to the GRATE that covered the ash pit or 'Purgatory', so also known as a PURGATORY GRATE. It …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the soil is fertile, and the sub-soil generally chalk; the surface is undulated. The living is a rectory, …