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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… could only be improved by that process. 12 Yet in the chalk country, away from good sheep downs, the typical three- … Clay and Coral Rag soils, most marked among those on the chalk. Parishes with no recent inclosure, for example … emerges. Agricultural progress is most noticeable in the chalk lands of the south where the biggest changes took place …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… across county boundaries. Thus the fortunes of southern, Chalk, Wiltshire have been linked to those of the similar … of the area of Wiltshire. If it is assumed that south, or Chalk, Wiltshire covered two-thirds of the county, and that … crops for the Amesbury Union, selected as typical of the chalk district, and 45 per cent. permanent grass and 27 per …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Brooke and Little London; the sub-soil in general is chalk and sand. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… clayey gravel and black turfy mould, and in some places chalk and flint. The town is situated in a fertile valley; it …
A History of the County of Sussex
… ribs, both moulded; some of the ashlar here is partly of chalk, partly of freestone of a different colour, …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… the burials were orderly, oriented east-west, some in chalk-lined graves, with traces of a coffin in one case. They … with shops there. The burials cannot be closely dated (chalk-lined graves occur in London from the mid 11th century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… presenting a flat appearance; the soil is light, with a chalk and gravel bottom. The living is a rectory, valued in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is generally hilly, and the soil consists principally of chalk and gravel. The manufacture of bombazines was formerly …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of the valley of the R. Piddle and at the top of the main Chalk escarpment; the land is almost entirely Chalk and falls from altitudes over 800 ft. above sea-level … Tenant's Bottom, spanning the floor of a dry valley in the Chalk ( see plan on p. 3). Both are undated but are perhaps …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Tisbury, hundred of Chalk, Hindon and S. divisions of Wilts, 7 miles (E. by N.) … to the rectory of BroadChalk and the vicarage of Bower-Chalk; impropriators, the Provost and Fellows of King's …