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A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… landscape, named features including 'headlands' as far as 'chalk-pit way', 'Bryda's tumulus', 'woad valley', a worth (or …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… standing on part of the zig-zag in the 19th century. 10 Chalk outcrops over the whole parish; there are deposits of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… other for Paris white only, which is made from excellent chalk rock, obtained about a mile south of the town. There is …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… noted for the production of 'Paris white', made from chalk quarried in Beverley Parks. 70 Another large-scale …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… has its source here. The soil is a light loam, resting on chalk, in which flints are imbedded, and of which great …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… on the S. side of the S. Dorset Ridgeway. The N. part, on Chalk, slopes S. from the crest of the Ridgeway at over 500 … lies in a deep valley draining S.E., immediately below the Chalk escarpment. The open fields were enclosed in 1827 and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… with brick dressings, and much of the inside of hard chalk. At the west end was a roundarched doorway with a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Tertiary gravels and clays. Where the clay meets the Upper Chalk near the northern boundary it is mixed with flinty … same stream from sources where the clay joins the Upper Chalk further north. The Chichester-Arundel road was shown on … stood further north, where the Reading Beds join the Upper Chalk, in what were by 1965 the Slindon Gravel Co. pits. 44 …
A History of the County of Essex
… including drainage and the application of lime and chalk. In 1844 Wood House farm of 56 a. was also mostly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and coppice; the soil is gravelly, with a small portion of chalk, and the surface in general hilly. On the north flows … hundred of Downton, though locally in the hundred of Chalk, Salisbury and Amesbury, and S. divisions of Wilts, 3 …