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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. It is bounded on the north by the river Ouse, and contains by computation 1750 acres of fertile land, of level surface. The village, which is spacious and well built, consists of a long range of houses on the … 1600 acres. The soil in some parts is clay, resting upon marl, and in others a light cold earth, underlaid with sand …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… - Tobermory T Tain TAIN, a royal burgh, the county-town, and a parish, in the county of Ross and Cromarty, 30 miles … farms are threshing-mills, one of them driven by steam. Marl found under several of the mosses, and some of which is … by horses, but often by horses and oxen together. Shell-marl, of which there is a good supply, is found highly …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the Conqueror had the capital manor of this village, and William de Noiers was his steward or bailiff, who took … Archbishop of Canterbury, who held it as a lay fee, and had 13 socmen, with a carucate of land, and 3 borderers, with 3 carucates, paunage for 12 swine: it …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… May hill. Although parts contained ancient tree cover and supported woodland crafts, it was predominantly agricultural in character and in the 17th and 18th centuries was known particularly for the growing of …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Survey is certified to be of the Fee of Raph Fitz-Hubert, and before that to have been the Free-hold of Leuric, who had … of Land. 1 The Land was then returned to be one car. and an half. There Raph had one car. and one sochm. on one bov. of Land, and nine vill. having …
A History of the County of Leicester
… of Bromkinsthorpe. The soil of the area is mostly Triassic Marl and Sandstone, but on the west bank of the Soar there is a … absent. The Roman Fosse Way 1 runs through Bromkinsthorpe, and the remains of a Roman villa have been discovered on a …
A History of the County of Worcester
… The borough of Droitwich Introduction and borough THE BOROUGH OF DROITWICH Wic, Saltwic (ix cent.); … between Banardesmore and Falshamfield to the west, to the marl-pit called Falfordespit, within the franchise of Wich. … on the south. And so by the old lane at the head of the marl-pit there by the head, and by the lane to the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… in flattish country, mostly at levels between 160 ft. and 200 ft., but rising to just over 300 ft. on the Campion … names 29 householders with 49 hearths liable to the tax, and 17 households of one hearth each who were exempt, giving … of 230. 1 In 1730 there were only 45 families, 2 and even in 1801 the census showed no more than 67 houses and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Coldfield is situated about half-way between Birmingham and Lichfield, along the main road joining these two places. … by Sutton Park, an area of natural moorland, heath, and woodland, lying to the west of the town, and including … of Sutton Park. To the east the principal rock is Keuper Marl, but much of the solid rock is masked by extensive …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… town itself was outside the hundred 1 that took its origin and name from the large manor of Tewkesbury. 2 The parish of … dominated by the rivers and streams. The ridge of Keuper Marl running due south through Tewkesbury is divided by the … and his queen, 48 shows where the Severn has cut into the marl; in Southwick the higher ground is partly overlaid by …