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A History of the County of Shropshire
… the town. Most houses, many with shared closets, had cess pits, many of them open. Other households had pails and threw …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Coll., Cambridge, 1675; vicar of Bobbing 1668, and of Chalk 1669, and of Hoo St. Warburgh, (all) Kent, 1650. See …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Sarah (d. 1838) for life with reversion to his nephew John Chalk (d. 1827), 53 but Chalk had presumably bought out Sarah's interest by 1818 when … owned and worked the mill. 54 In 1838, when the owner was Chalk's son John Knowles Chalk (d. 1877), 55 it was leased to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Stetchworth boundaries. Below 90 m. the exposed Chalk drops more steeply to 30 m. (98 ft.) in Newmarket. … in the northeast being entirely dry. 26 The undulating Chalk carries mostly light soils full of flints, with gravel … training at Newmarket. 33 The arable covering the rolling chalk slopes was cultivated as open fields until inclosure …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… modern ploughing on E. Height 2 m. but much altered by old pits which have been dug into its top and W. side. Fig. 118 … m., height 2 m. but very mutilated by fox-holes and other pits. It is cut into by modern ploughing on the E. b(5) … least four circular hut sites and a considerable number of pits. A little further N.E. is a large Roman site (6) with …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in the north, Heale Hill, and Smithen Down. The soil is chalk containing a large amount of flint, with gravel in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… The tower, which was of timber on a base of flint, chalk, and ragstone, was demolished and a new brick tower, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is rich, resting in some places on clay, and in others on chalk. In addition to a small village adjacent to the church, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… at about 140 ft. above O.D. the land rises gently, on Chalk, to a low N.-S. ridge capped by Reading Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which … an unburnt bone disc from a trepanned skull. Two smaller pits were found, one containing sherds of a rare type of …