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The Environs of London
… horses, in the great garden, and purveyance of stone and chalk 71. The preceding year John Alleyn had a grant of …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… very usual to whitewash the houses, from the abundance of chalk, of which here they have mountains. When Englishmen …
Survey of London
… of the foundations, which were of large squared blocks of chalk, with wide joints set in hard yellow mortar. Four feet … The walls were of rubble masonry, consisting of blocks of chalk and ragstone, bedded in hard yellow mortar. The … was completely excavated; the coffin was constructed of chalk slabs 4 inches thick and about 15 inches long, set …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Acres of Down, which consists of a very thin Soil on a Chalk Basis. The greater Part of that Down is occupied in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… near Wood Ditton. It lies almost entirely upon chalk which slopes generally N.W. between 350 ft. and 10 ft. … original and that the Dyke was designed to block the whole chalk zone. He reserved judgement on the presumed line of the … draining W., in the bottom of which runs the road and a chalk stream which has a considerable flow in winter and wet …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… at the northern extremity, which contains a portion of the chalk hills extending through this county and Wiltshire. The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hill Terrace overlie Thanet Sand, which in turn rests on chalk. These gravels are divisible into several horizons. The … lie above the terrace. The Taplow Terrace deposits lie on chalk and consist of well-sorted sands and gravels at the … the base covered by a solifluction deposit containing much chalk and in turn covered by brickearth. In some pits, for …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… England the Windmill Hill people settled mostly on the chalk uplands, 92 but the discovery at Yeoveney of one of …