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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the workhouse, and the kitchen, which is nearly entire. In digging for the foundation of the new church, it was … soil, on the whole, good, consisting of clay, sand, and gravel, with bog. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued …
A History of the County of Essex
… heathland just north of the Alresford road, and that gravel and sand were extracted in the west of the parish. 70 … mainly in Col- chester. 36 Wivenhoe Sand, Stone & Gravel Co., later Redland Aggregates Ltd., was established in …
A History of the County of Essex
… from the higher parts. Much of the parish is glacial gravel and sand, but there is glacial loam in the north-east … quay and early town where there is an outcrop of sand and gravel. 91 COMMUNICATIONS The road from Col- chester to …
A History of the County of Essex
… early 19th century surveyors supervised the spreading of gravel and stones on the roads. Wivenhoe became part of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… partly floored by clay but with extensive areas of river gravel and alluvium near the Nene. The parish is notable for … are those revealed by air photography on the limestone and gravel, but there are also many settlements on the higher … Pit Alignments (SP 899644; Fig. 156), 400 m. S. of (2), on gravel at 46 m. above OD. Air photographs (CUAP, ZE 74) show …
A Dictionary of London
… yard. Site rebuilt for business purposes. Wood Yard, Gravel Lane North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-Lond. Guide, … Wood and Co.'s Wharf. Woodner Court Out of Harrow Alley, Gravel Lane, Houndsditch (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831). Not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1687 gave liberty to plough Hudleys, and 10 a. or 12 a. of Gravel Pits had been ploughed by 1696. In 1765 there were 143 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… higher, ground is on Oxford Clay and the Wolvercote gravel terrace, with an area of brick earth near the Water … edge of Port Meadow all lie on patches of flood-plain gravel; the nucleus of Upper Wolvercote, around the church, is on a patch of the Wolvercote gravel terrace, as is the 19th-century Pear Tree Farm in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… town stands on a band of boulder clay and sand and gravel overlying the Middle Coal Measures. The coal measures … on the eastern side of the dividing band of clay and gravel, the workable coal seams are overlain by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the knoll on which the village stands, is composed of gravel. Among the principal proprietors are, Sir Henry E. L. …