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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… comprises 7201 a. 3 r. 32 p., of which the soil is chiefly chalk, and the surface hilly; the lower grounds are watered …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… arable; the soil is partly a fine mould resting on chalk, and partly a strong clay, producing good crops of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is open down and common; the soil consists of gravel, chalk, and clay, variously disposed. The surface is very …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and common waste; the soil is light, and there are several chalk-pits. Wanborough is tithe-free, and exempt from …
Old and New London
… Ou tramwas formed in order to carry to the water-side the chalk dug out of the sides of the Surrey hills about Epsom. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… supposed to have been thrown up by the Danes; and on Chalk Farm is the ancient font of the church, which has …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… gravel and were of undressed stones, including sandstone, chalk, limestone and Purbeck marble boulders. The upper … were found reused stones with mortar adhering, as well as chalk blocks, quartz and granite pebbles, and pieces of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… doubt that it was generally very similar to that of the chalk country of south Wiltshire. 55 It is clear that all the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish included a diversified stretch of country. The high chalk downland of Salisbury Plain, which provided good sheep … separated from the Wylye valley to the south by the chalk outliers of Cop Heap and Chalk Hill. This greensand, and a similar area west of Arn …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 5 miles S.E. of Dorchester. The S. boundary lies on the Chalk just N. of the E. end of the S. Dorset Ridgeway at a … the middle of the parish where Reading Beds overlie the Chalk. This middle area is well wooded and in it lies …