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Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… the burials were orderly, oriented east-west, some in chalk-lined graves, with traces of a coffin in one case. They … with shops there. The burials cannot be closely dated (chalk-lined graves occur in London from the mid 11th century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… presenting a flat appearance; the soil is light, with a chalk and gravel bottom. The living is a rectory, valued in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is generally hilly, and the soil consists principally of chalk and gravel. The manufacture of bombazines was formerly …