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Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
Survey of London
… and the whole internal space is marked out with chalk, in the most fanciful manner. Contiguous to this, are a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… sited close to small streams that flow from the southern chalk downland towards the river. Some, including … Clopton, and Croydon lay upon the sharp slope where the chalk down rises from the flat gault-based clay beside the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… lies across a poorly defined escarpment. The N. part is on chalk, here covered by boulder clay forming a broad plateau … than 250 ft. above O.D. The rest of the parish, S. of the chalk scarp is on gault, and extends to the river Rhee at c. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Arundel and Madehurst. 10 The parish lies largely on chalk, overlain in the south-west by brickearth, valley … town and Pughdean bottom to the north are valleys in the chalk, in each of which a stream formed a pond. Swanbourne … in 1995 by High Street, climbing steeply the spur of chalk on which Arundel is built; c. 1200 it was described as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… return, he found the names of the officers written in chalk upon the doors of the apartments they had severally …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the soil is fertile, and the sub-soil generally chalk; the surface is undulated. The living is a rectory, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and 187 pasture, waste, &c.; the soil rests chiefly on chalk. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at … soil is strong clay mixed with flint stones, and rests on chalk, the district being a portion of the high range of chalk hills which form the northern boundary of the South …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Below 90 m. (295 ft.) to the east and north the Upper Chalk underlies a dry flinty soil. Above 90 m. the Chalk is capped by boulder clay with poorly drained and heavy … at 10th- or 11th-century manorial sites: Silverley on the Chalk by a stream feeding the Kennett, Ashley at the junction …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 81 NE Ashmore, covering some 2,700 acres, lies entirely on Chalk above which in the S. and S.E. are extensive areas of …
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