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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… In the township are 742 acres, the soil of which is partly clay and partly sand. The Chester canal passes close to the … It comprises 821 acres, the soil of which is partly clay and partly sand. A church was built in the year 1836, … inhabitants. It comprises 1571 acres; the soil is partly clay and partly sand. A church has been built containing 500 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a rich loam, in others rocky, and in some a deep blue clay: there are several quarries of good stone. The … rest arable; the soil is in some parts chalk, in others clay, and lime of superior quality is made from the … It comprises 439 acres, of which the soil is two-thirds clay and one-third of light quality. Tittensor TITTENSOR, a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 250 ft. above OD. The higher parts are covered by Boulder Clay, but down-cutting by small streams has exposed large areas of Oxford Clay; around the village, and especially to the S. of it are … road from Godmanchester to Leicester (57a), on Oxford Clay at 200 ft. above OD. Air photographs show a small …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises 1488 acres, the soil of which is half clay, half sand. At Four-lane Ends, in the township, an old … is carried on, for which there is abundance of excellent clay. The tithes have been commuted for 130, payable to the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… lozenges were often adulterated with products like PIPE CLAY [Accum (1820)]. Not found in the OED Found in units of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. above sea-level. The land in the S.E. is Kimmeridge Clay; that in the N.W. is Corallian Limestone, extensively …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… surface is in general flat, and the soil a strong fertile clay. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of … It comprises 1135 acres, the soil of which is partly clay and partly sand; the land is of good quality, and … in some parts is hilly, and the soil consists of sand, clay, and marl. The Hall is situated in the midst of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the black-faced. The substrata are chiefly porphyry and clay-slate, of which the rocks principally consist; the bed … of blue granite in various places, with red slate, clay-stone, and very beautiful felspar-porphyry supplying … dug out of beds, and used for repairing roads. A clay-stone and porphyry-dyke of a reddish hue, and of very …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… springs of water. The remainder of the parish is boulder clay. The fields of Toft, prior to enclosure by act of 1812, … to mid 19th century (Monuments (2), (3), (7) and (13)), clay bat and thatch being favoured materials. Ecclesiastical … dwellings, immediately N. of the church, two-storeyed, of clay bat rough-cast, with thatched roofs. The idiom is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… stands S.E. of the village green. The walls are of boulder-clay and the upper part of the tower of red brick; the … the jambs and rough semi-circular heads are of boulder-clay; one of these windows has recently been opened out. In …