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Old and New London
… The last lodger was a carpenter, who had sunk a saw-pit at the north end of the courtyard. The whole front of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… on low wages, and in 1823 men were employed in the gravel pit. In 1833 the vestry resolved to levy a labour rate, based …
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, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… ditches (27). An Iron Age settlement, Roman settlements, a pit alignment and a Roman bridge (811) have also been … high before destruction. In the centre a large rectangular pit contained a wooden boat-shaped coffin in which was found … cremated bones and charcoal, were discovered; in one pit were fragments of an unspecified Bronze Age urn. Four …
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 …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… 5, or most of it, to Thomas de Wrotham, he also conceded a pit for the privy, extending under his other lands to the N. …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Hall. 67 Gravel was being extracted commercially from a pit near Chicory Farm in 1973. In 1960 land and buildings in …
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 …