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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… charges (yet for the most part levied out of the coal-pits) a stately house with artificial workmanship, standing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… liberty to plough Hudleys, and 10 a. or 12 a. of Gravel Pits had been ploughed by 1696. In 1765 there were 143 a. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… waste; the surface is varied, and the soil rests on chalk. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was little affected by mining or industry until a few deep pits were sunk around Priorslee village and near Lower … his Snedshill mines in 1778; Richard Banks, who operated pits in Wombridge in 1796 in association with a group of … collieries although ironstone was still got from smaller pits; in 1870 five of the existing ten pairs of pits at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for colliers at the Lilleshall Co.'s Lawn and Rookery pits. 25 In the third quarter of the 19th century building …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the town. Most houses, many with shared closets, had cess pits, many of them open. Other households had pails and threw …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Coll., Cambridge, 1675; vicar of Bobbing 1668, and of Chalk 1669, and of Hoo St. Warburgh, (all) Kent, 1650. See …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Sarah (d. 1838) for life with reversion to his nephew John Chalk (d. 1827), 53 but Chalk had presumably bought out Sarah's interest by 1818 when … owned and worked the mill. 54 In 1838, when the owner was Chalk's son John Knowles Chalk (d. 1877), 55 it was leased to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Stetchworth boundaries. Below 90 m. the exposed Chalk drops more steeply to 30 m. (98 ft.) in Newmarket. … in the northeast being entirely dry. 26 The undulating Chalk carries mostly light soils full of flints, with gravel … training at Newmarket. 33 The arable covering the rolling chalk slopes was cultivated as open fields until inclosure …