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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the surface is undulated, and the soil a strong fertile clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at … quality, a poor thin soil resting upon a retentive clay, and altogether unsheltered by woods or plantations; the … The Roman Ikeneld-street may be traced in the parish. At Clay-Cross, the Midland railway is carried through a tunnel …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the Chalk are narrow outcrops of Reading Beds and London Clay which in turn give way to extensive heathland on Bagshot … S.E. of West Burton Dairy (29), on Reading Beds and London Clay. West Burton appears to have been a flourishing …
A History of the County of Stafford
… (six) by Valentine Ash, who in the early 1760s dug for clay in Winshill wood; his kilns were probably those in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… rock is sandstone with some marl, overlain with boulder clay in the south-eastern part of the township along Ashby …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of fuller's earth 3 and the soil is stone brash resting on clay. 4 The parish has arable and grassland in almost equal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… largely of flints; in the centre 'on a raised bed of clay' was a cremation under an inverted urn; a secondary …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The soil rests upon chalk and flint, and is in some parts clay, in others a thin loam. The living is a rectory, valued …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… chiefly of ash and fir trees. Near the river the soil is clay, alternated with sand, but towards the south the land … flat and unvaried; the soil is chiefly a strong loam, on clay and red-sandstone. The road from Warrington to Newton … the rest pasture. The soil is very rich, and consists of clay and sand, the former greatly predominating. The living …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Much of the area is covered by expanses of Boulder Clay as well as glacial sands and gravels. The major monument … still stands. The earthworks are on Upper and Middle Lias Clay and alluvium, between 125 m. and 145 m. above OD. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Clayworth, union of East Retford, North-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of … 1500 acres, of grazing land; the soil is half sand, half clay. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the …