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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… land, in many parts consisting only of a mass of hard chalk, called hurlock, or clunch, with a slight covering of … manufacture. Straw-platting was formerly confined to the chalk district, at the southernmost extremity of the county, … loam, and in the upper part a strong clay. There are some chalk-pits, and two extensive flour-mills. The village is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the soil consists principally of mellow earth, resting on chalk. The surface presents numerous softlyrounded eminences, … common or waste; the cultivated land is arable, lying on chalk, and the surface is in general hilly. The town is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… derived from a fine stream of water, which issues from a chalk hill with considerable force. The living is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 2900 a. 1 r. 6 p., the soil of which rests principally on chalk; the cottagers are chiefly employed in the making of …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Berrick Salome. The geology is mostly gravel rising onto chalk, while a narrow strip of riverside alluvium provided a … BRICKMAKING Small-scale mineral extraction began early. 'Chalk-pit way' (mentioned in 996) lay possibly north-east of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of woods and plantations. 1a The soil is clay, gravel, and chalk marl, and the chief crops are corn and hops. The common …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… W. end. N. of the house is a deep well, cut through the chalk, and bricked round the upper part, square at the top, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to extensive woodland. The N. part of the parish is on Chalk rising to just over 300 ft. above O.D. and in places … Farm, all along the Milborne Brook on the edge of the Chalk outcrop. Late settlements to the S. of the original … farmhouses, the lands of which lay in open fields on the Chalk to the N.; the latter were not enclosed until 1846 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ridges, or distinct eminences. Between these hills and the chalk range, with a gentle inclination towards the south, … of grain and pulse. The next grand division comprises the chalk hills, which form so prominent a feature in the western … lying eastward of the Loddon, except a detached range of chalk hills included between the Thames and an imaginary line …
A History of the County of Hertford
… rather steeply to a height of about 550 ft. The subsoil is chalk and the upper soil is of gravel and flints, lending … continued towards the curtain for another 5 ft., in rough chalk masonry. Its outer or north-west face abuts on the …