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The Environs of London
… of marsh. The soil is various; gravel, loam, sand, and chalk 2. The quota paid by this parish to the land-tax is … are impregnated with mundic. Below the church there is a chalk-pit, in which echini and other extraneous fossils are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… altitude of 400 ft. in the S.W. Most of the land is on Chalk and the village is concentrated on a narrow river … settlement had its own strip of land running up to the Chalk and the boundaries of the strips are still marked by … 250 ft. and 400 ft. O.D., on the E.-facing slopes of the Chalk downland between the valleys of the Stour and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of Charminster, covering about 4,500 acres mainly on Chalk, extends N. from the R. Frome and is divided into two … of river bank and a strip of land running N.E. up to the Chalk. The most northerly, Forston, is still an independent … (66729492). A tessellated pavement was found in 1891 on Chalk at the foot of an E.-facing slope, about 260 ft. above …
A Dictionary of London
… at the eastern end of the City, designated Eastcheap. A chalk wall has been found crossing Cheapside diagonally from …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… was found, at the same time, with walls of faced chalk and lying at a lower level than the foundation-arches. …