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A History of the County of Lancaster
… was annually decreasing, and it was expected that the peat would soon be exhausted. Sir John de Byron had taken 40 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… potteries and quarries. The soil is a loam, with clay or peat subsoil; the agricultural land is practically all in …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… town's reservoir, there were seen beneath 2 ft. of surface-peat the remains of many hundreds of prostrate trees, chiefly …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… upon the Millstone Grit. Except where there are beds of peat moss lying in hollows on the higher ground, the whole of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… rendered 1 d. The herbage of Middleforth produced 15 s.; peat sold, 4 s.; fines for entering lands, 15 s. 4 d.; fees …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… consists of the Coal Measures; the soil varies from peat and sand to clay. The land is almost entirely under …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… is a good deal of mossland in the township; in places peat is still cut for fuel and litter. In the south the soil …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… half of the township the strata are obscured by peat 10 to 30 feet in thickness. The northern half of its …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… birch-trees waving above bracken, sedges, and rushes. Peat is dug, dried and stacked ready for fuel, the grounds …