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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… on the N. by Wiltshire, on the E. by Hampshire and on the S. by the R. Stour and the expanding city of Bournemouth. The … the streams are tributaries of the Allen, which flows S. to meet the Stour at Wimborne Minster. Numerous dry … lead off the main valleys. The surface in the E. and S.E. parts of the area is composed of Eocene rocks which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… deposits to expose areas of heavy Jurassic clays; the S.E. edge of this upland is marked by a steep scarp, 100 ft. … are later and were associated with the clearance of the woodland. Village Morphology It is of interest that many of … probable that it was defined prior to the clearance of the woodland. The effect of modern adjustments is often to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… the E. by the county boundary with West Suffolk and on the S.E. by the Icknield Way, now the A 11 road. The N.W. part is … underlying Gault Clay and Lower Chalk are now exposed. The S.E. half of the area consists of rolling chalk-land (Lower … annual production to be expected from at least 70 acres of woodland managed in the traditional manner of rotational …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… mostly Oolitic limestones, extending in a dip-slope E. and S.E. from a prominent escarpment overlooking the Severn Vale. … p. lii). Preservation. Brackenbury Ditches, which lies in woodland, is the only hill-fort wholly untouched by ploughing … earthwork. Cowley. Birdlip Camp (SO 924150), now in woodland, depends for its authenticity on a cross-ridge bank …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… volume covers an area of some 750 square kilometres in the S.W. of the county. Topographically the region is a plateau … with numerous small woods and copses; larger tracts of woodland in the S. and S.E. are survivals of the medieval … in the N.E. of the county, the implications are that the woodland either did not exist or was considerably less …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… to the borders of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire in the S. Topographically the region comprises scarp and dip-slope … the heavier clays and on the glacial deposits. Tracts of woodland in the N.E. are survivals of the once extensive … vegetation and land-use. In the N. the extensive areas of woodland, part of the former Rockingham Forest, together with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the N. and N.W., caps many isolated rounded hills in the S.W. and W. and forms broad open stretches of land N.W. of … two small timbered areas such as Badby Wood, there is no woodland in the region, though the many trees in the hedges … of the natural environment such as heavy soils and dense woodland were more easily overcome than had previously been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on the N. by the River Welland and roughly bisected N.-S. by the River Nene. Topographically, the region is a … and on the glacial deposits. In the N.W. larger tracts of woodland are survivals of the extensive Rockingham Forest. … number of sites which can be recorded. The large areas of woodland, mainly in the N.W. within the former Rockingham …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… AND LATER The tracts of coastal downland and interior woodland, heath or parkland which comprise the county of … No attempt is therefore made here to assess the county's material contribution to our picture of Roman and pre-Roman … some claims to represent the Burgh at "Brydian" of Alfred's time, recorded hereabouts in the Burghal Hidage. The later …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of silts and gravels in the flat valley bottom. To the S.E. is a sparsely-populated ridge formed of Jurassic clays … to the E., known as Bromswold, had been largely cleared of woodland, but considerable areas remained unreclaimed on the … of the forest. Assarts, agricultural clearances in the woodland, are recorded but except for Provost Lodge and …