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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 29 For much of its length the boundary is marked by roads. Chalk outcrops over the whole parish, which lies on a plateau … church. 45 The present Manor Farm is a house built of chalk in the 17th century, encased in brick in the 18th, and … 71 ALL SAINTS' church, so called in 1763, 72 is built of chalk blocks and freestone and has a chancel with north …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… region. The Wolds are a magnificent assemblage of lofty chalk hills, extending from the banks of the Humber in the … Barnsley, Newmiller Dam, and East Ardsley, through which pits are sunk near Barnsley to several thick seams of hard … principal mineral productions of the East Riding are, the chalk of the Wolds, which is occasionally used in building, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… including one for Irish prisoners, mentioned in 1210. Pits dug in 1192 may have been graves. 11 There was also a … post-holes in a bank of compact yellow sand and two pits containing confused human bones. These were interpreted … most of which have been cut away. Two rectangular pits in the tower floor reveal a stone-lined drain, 2 ft. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… New Red Sandstone (Trias), Lias, Oolite, Greensand and Chalk, with extensive alluvial deposits, from which it …