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A History of the County of Hampshire
… place-name occurring in the 13th century. The soil is clay, the subsoil chalk. The chief crops are cereals. Manors …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… a fifteenth woods and plantations. 1 The soil, which is clay and loam with a subsoil of Corallian Beds and Oxford Clay, produces crops of wheat, beans, barley, oats, mangolds …
A History of the County of Northampton
… a third of which is devoted to pasture. It has a soil of clay and light loam, the subsoil being clay and sand, which produces good crops of wheat and barley. …
A History of the County of Bedford
… acres woods and plantations. 1 The soil of the parish is clay, formerly worked to the south-west of Nethersted in the …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… part of which is grass land. The soil is gravel and clay, growing corn and fruit. Some outlying portions of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… brook with gravel and alluvium. A narrow ridge of boulder clay reaches eastwards from Toft parish between the Bourn … the land, on gault and chalk mostly overlaid by boulder clay, rises steadily towards a down c. 200 ft. high, and …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Green Sand, with a considerable outcrop of the Atherfield Clay in the eastern part. On the west the land rises towards …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… down rises to an average of 600 ft. The soil is chiefly clay 1; 627 acres are under cultivation, but the greater part …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Compton. Below the scarp, the top of which is Rhaetic clay, the land falls gently to the moor, the Keuper marl of … and Lollover (90 m. (295 ft.)), both topped with Rhaetic clay but the former with an outcrop of Lower Lias. Littleton has marl, clay, and lias to the west of the hamlet and on Castley hill …
A History of the County of Bedford
… ft. at Moxhill, the lowest 70 ft. in the east. The soil is clay, the subsoil chiefly gravel; the principal crops being … rehersed w t all plente: Nethelesse yit am I leyd lowe in clay That whylom was Scuyer callid Ths G\[re]y. Benet my wyf …