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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterborne 4 miles W. of Dorchester. It is entirely on Chalk, with extensive areas of later gravel deposits … a,b(12) Strip Fields (Fig. in pocket; Plate 207) occur on Chalk to the W., S.E. and N. of the village, covering about … are seen on Greensand and Bagshot Beds as well as on the Chalk. They indicate also the former existence of up-anddown …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and relief. The south part of the parish is typical chalk downland, rising to nearly 800 ft. in the south-west … Chanctonbury Ring is a prominent landmark. Between the Chalk and the Weald clay on which the northern part of the … 45 The open-field arable of the parish lay chiefly on the chalk and Greensand outcrops around and to the south of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… loam, and in others a black earth, resting principally on chalk and flint. The grounds are intersected by the rapid …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… valley on the E. bank of the R. Allen; it is entirely on Chalk, between 100 ft. and 225 ft. above sea-level. Land at … building (23 ft. by 12 ft.) with flint walls and a rammed chalk floor. Upon the floor was a d. of Henry II, mediaeval … now heavily ploughed, is on the gentle N. slope of a low Chalk spur in the angle between two Roman roads which …
A History of the County of Oxford