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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the hamlet of BeverleyPark are two quarries of excellent chalk, of which the best whiting is made, and which is also … little north of High Carricks, coal was worked in 1810, in pits about ten fathoms deep, but much interrupted by dykes; …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 13th and 14th-century and later pottery and some squared chalk blocks. These are doubtless traces of 'the marks of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a limekiln on waste in the fields with licence to dig pits over 1 a. as long as they levelled, ploughed, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of 1,137 acres, lies on the steep N.W. escarpment of the Chalk, its S.E. boundary coinciding with the summit of the … at an altitude of 900 ft. above sea-level. Below the Chalk, at 500 ft. to 600 ft., is a stratum of Gault Clay; … are spring-line settlements at the junction of the Chalk and the Gault Clay. Woolland occurs in Domesday Book …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… The walls of the old building are generally of rubble or chalk, rendered in cement or rough-cast; the dressings are of …
The Environs of London
… Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the … is principally gravel. At the east end of the town is a chalk-pit, which has a stratum abounding with the same …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is generally a deep clay, interspersed occasionally with chalk, and gravel; and sandstone, in which fossils are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 40). A further air photograph, taken in 1978, records pits and a ring ditch(?) in the same area ( Northamptonshire … Northamptonshire Archaeol 9 (1974), 111) are old quarry pits and modern disturbances to ridge-and-furrow. (10) Parish …