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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… parts sand and gravel. At Lomepit-hole there is a large chalk pit, in which are found various kinds of extraneous … of marsh. The soil is various, gravel, loam, sand, and chalk. The number of houses in it is ninety-five. The house, … are impregnated with mundic. Below the church there is a chalk-pit, in which echini and other extraneous fossils are …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… seventeen hundred acres; the soil is light and free from chalk. PAGE 119. Mr. Berens is now out of the direction of … read Fraser. DARENT PAGE 367. There seems to be a vein of chalk which runs across this parish, along the hill from St. … soil of this parish is various, for though it abounds with chalk, yet there are some stiff clays intermixed likewise …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to the poor's rate at 2500l. per ann. at the bottom of the chalk hills runs the Pilgrim road, continuing in a like …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… Cornet, 27 July 1564, and estimate of the remainder of chalk and lime at Hurst castle, and of implements left there …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… been blessed with godly inspiration to discern cheese from chalk, the matters being so evidently discoursed by learned … as to cause Leicester and Burghley to know cheese from chalk in religion, are Harding, Sanders, Stapleton, and …
The Environs of London
… being, in some parts of the parish, gravel; in some, chalk; and in others, a stiff clay. Manors. It appears, by … you see. This house was built chiefly of flint, mixed with chalk, and very strongly cemented. Sir Robert Aguillon was …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and Milton. PAGE 325. From the immense quantities of chalk which has been cut away from these pits in different … and sharp as thorns. The struta of flints, usual among the chalk, are napped into gun flints, in the midst of which are found compleat cockle shells filled with chalk, and sometimes of so large a size as to be esteemed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… among them 'Cull-pepper's Dish'. To the N. the land, on Chalk, slopes gently to the river Piddle and then rises to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the banks of the River Ray. Or again, compare the upper chalk and flint of the Chiltern districts from Goring to … variable, but the sub-soil may be safely said to be of chalk, and although some fields are covered with brown flints … soil in the north, the stonebrash in the middle, and the chalk and gravel soils of the south. To provide keep for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… there were fragments of a forest-pasture region. The Chalk Country of south Wiltshire formed the centre of a great … countries of which large parts were in Wiltshire were the Chalk and Cheese countries. These were truly as different as chalk and cheese. Each had its own life and its own history. …