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The Environs of London
… The soil of this parish is very various, consisting of gravel; clay; black sand upon a stratum of gravel; black mould upon gravel and clay; sandy loam upon a clay bottom; and strong …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… on the N. and has itself been much disturbed in the digging of graves. The former church building, described by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… over 250 ft. above O.D., through chalk and gault, to river gravel at about 50 ft.; but the chalk outcrop is irregular, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… city is a public cemetery, containing 7 acres, laid out in gravel-walks and plantations; a low wall separates the … the site of the abbey a new bridewell has been erected, in digging the foundations of which many stone coffins, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of building houses, and had built such houses after digging up the bones of Christians buried there and casting …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… account of the badness of the foundation (peat overlying gravel), and the adjoining parts of both transepts were … originally on the peat, are now being carried down to the gravel below, the whole work being made much more difficult by the fact that the gravel is well beneath the permanent water level of the site. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Street takes its name from being the site of the chesil or gravel bank on which the boats laden with timber and stone, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meadow and pasture; the soil is fertile, resting on gravel. The living is annexed to the vicarage of …