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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises 670 acres, the soil of which is partly clay. Torksey (St. Peter) TORKSEY ( St. Peter), a parish, in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… respectively. Most of the parish lies on brickearth, with clay and gravels in the north-east and north-west corners and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by measurement 1353 acres. The soil is chiefly a strong clay, producing good wheat; the surface, though flat, is … a thin coal is wrought, and there are two brick-kilns, clay suitable for bricks abounding in the neighbourhood. In … and limestone, below which, at a great depth, is a bed of clay. Tottington (St. Andrew) TOTTINGTON ( St. Andrew), a …
The Environs of London
… is arable, the remainder grass 3. The soil is various, clay, loam, and brick earth. This parish pays the sum of …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by Devonshire Hill Lane led to the Edmonton border at Clay Hill. Most of Lordship Lane, from Chapmans Green to High …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Tottenham, with rich grass-land along the Lea and poorer clay to the west, was probably always better suited to … the only other 15th-century reference to the working of clay or brickearth is the occupation of Perkyn the Potter, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… parish was also rural, from Downhills park northward to Clay Hill. Beyond a group of houses around Bruce Castle, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… have been in Clayhanger parish (Devon), probably stood at Clay Hill, mid-way along the border with Edmonton; 12 it was … White Hart Lane at Smiths Cross. There was also a farm at Clay Hill. 46 A notable feature from the 16th century was the … the north where Green Lanes ascended Jolly Butchers (later Clay Bush) Hill, and a few to the east along Lordship Lane. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by a line running due south from Devonshire (formerly Clay) Hill to meet White Hart Lane near its later junction … Lane. The remainder of the parish is predominantly London Clay, with a little Boyn Hill Gravel west and south-west of … a little to the east, and re-entering the parish at Clay Hill, near the later Great Cambridge Road; thence it ran …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… be found by sinking wells over 100 ft. deep, through the clay, towards the end of the 18th century. In 1840 supplies … able to tap an inexhaustible amount of water between the clay and the chalk. 73 Tottenham local board claimed to have …