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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… streams have cut down through the Middle and Upper Lias Clay and Marlstone Rock and there are wide bands of alluvium … on land sloping E. to a small stream, on Upper Lias Clay at 110 m. above OD. There is an area of very disturbed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… surface is generally flat: the soil varies from a stiff clay to a light sand and gravel; grain of every kind is … all which it abounds, of blue brick, made of a fine bed of clay leased to Mr. Barns by the corporation of Newcastle. The … The area of the township is 1153 acres; the soil is clay. Tithe rent-charges have been awarded, of which 111. 10. …
A History of the County of Essex
… HISTORY. White Colne, like Wakes Colne, lies on a damp clay which 18th century agriculturalists distinguished from … being grown instead of a fallow. 73Although in 1794 the clay soil was considered poor, hollow draining having been …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish to 609 ha. 55 Much of White Colne lies on boulder clay, but the Colne and the Cambridge brook have cut through the clay to expose bands of London clay and Kesgrave sand and gravel; there are also bands of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the surface is undulated, and well wooded, the soil partly clay and partly sand. The manufacture of salt, many years … and pasture: the soil varies, but is principally chalk and clay; the surface is elevated, and in some parts hilly. The … 300 acres; the soil is various, consisting of sand, marl, clay, and peat-moss, resting chiefly on limestone, and there …
Old and New London
… had ornamented mouldings round them, and were of baked clay, in proper colours, and glazed in the manner of Delft …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… between 140 m. and 130 m. above OD, is covered by Boulder Clay, but along the sides of the Ouse valley limestone, silts …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of arable land; the soil is a good loam, and the subsoil clay. Coal, of an inferior quality for household purposes, … 974 acres, of which the soil is partly sand and partly clay. Sir John Chetwode, Bart., is lord of the manor, and … and 260 orchard and garden ground; the soil is principally clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… moor, on which the Chesterfield races are held; potters' clay of good quality is found, and the manufacture of … 1429 a. 2 r. 1 p. The soil in the lower lands is a clay marl, and on the hills a thin loose mould abounding with clay-stone; the surface is boldly undulated, and the lower …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… the Gravel is capped in places by a very thin layer of Clay. The settlement is known from extensive digging by W. L. … of Andoversford (map, p. 124). The nearly level site, on Clay over the Upper Lias at 590 ft. above O.D., falls gently … Roofing was of local slate and Old Red Sandstone. Baked clay occurred only in tesserae, in certain pilae, in tiles of …