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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1851 when there were 11 of them. 79 Bricks were made from clay dug south of Parsonage Farm in the 1880s, but the works …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… these valleys the land rises across outcrops of Upper Lias Clay, Northampton Sand and Oolite Limestone to a central ridge capped by Boulder Clay, with a maximum height of 155 m. above OD. No … 127), lies in the E. part of the parish, on limestone and clay between 107 m. and 122 m. above OD. The boundaries of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… to 280 ft. above OD. The higher S.W. part is on Boulder Clay, but along the valley sides bands of clays, limestones … R. Nene, on rising ground. They are situated on Boulder Clay at 220 ft. above OD and in a line orientated … modern ploughing on E. Height 2 m. but much altered by old pits which have been dug into its top and W. side. Fig. 118 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the village, on a steep N.W.-facing hillside of Upper Lias Clay, is a flight of strip lynchets (Fig. 151), a rare …
A History of the County of Essex
… years later the tenant of Ray House was licensed to dig clay from his land for this purpose. 36 A field in this …
A History of the County of Essex
… down to the river Roding. The soil is mainly London clay, with patches of gravel on the higher parts, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of trees, and the soil is rich, resting in some places on clay, and in others on chalk. In addition to a small village …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Later settlement developed on the Reading Beds and London Clay. Woodlands village, first recorded in 1244, is the … ft. high, lay on the crest of a gentle S. slope of London Clay, about 140 ft. above O.D. It had no ditch and the … an unburnt bone disc from a trepanned skull. Two smaller pits were found, one containing sherds of a rare type of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the settlement sites at Morley and Park farms, lies on clay, which is overlain by some alluvium near Park Farm. 56 …