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A History of the County of Sussex
… in a horseshoe curve. The webs of both periods are of chalk, the earlier vaults having the larger courses. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 450 acres, and is watered by a brook called Bridy: chalk is obtained for manure. The living is a discharged … three subterranean cavities, supposed to have been iron-pits, but called by the inhabitants "The Fairy Slats." …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… at the summit of Hambledon Hill, a detached outcrop of the Chalk escarpment. The village stands at the foot of the hill …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Cambridge. Its soil lies upon boulder clay overlying chalk. From the southern road the ground falls gradually and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 9 Chilford hundred, 1845 The hundred lies mainly upon the chalk, overlaid on the higher ground by glacial clays, 10 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… imbedded in clay; and in the lower parts are some pits of Sussex marble of fine quality. The living is a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of Leverton's boundary. 56 Nearly all the parish lies on chalk; a small area of Reading Beds outcrops north of Chilton …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of arable and woodland, with some upland pastures: chalk in general forms the subsoil. The London and Brighton … arable, 24 pasture, and 85 woodland; the soil is clay and chalk in some parts, and in others, especially the flat …