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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the bend at Parson Drove at the point occupied by the Pits. The old name of this road was Crooked Drove (Wisb. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Richolme, Queen's Dolfe and Turnore Fields, 11 and Watery Pits. MANORS Newton is not mentioned in Domesday Book. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sold at ½ d. a bucket, was still being drawn from brick-pits. The Wisbech Waterworks Act of that year (27 & 28 Vic. …
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 …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… (SP 01381803), cut by possibly late Romano-British pits, near Foxcote Manor, was noted in 1935 in the face of a … a wide valley, close to the Foxcote Brook. Three irregular pits contained Iron Age pottery including stamped ware; two of the pits also contained bone combs, perhaps late Romano-British …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the entry, which at that date provided access to tan pits close to the river. 38 Such broad street-entries were …