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A History of the County of Somerset
… lies between 19 m. (62 ft.) on a broad band of Lower Lias clay and limestone and 61 m. (200 ft.) in the southwest … a limekiln on waste in the fields with licence to dig pits over 1 a. as long as they levelled, ploughed, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the Chalk, at 500 ft. to 600 ft., is a stratum of Gault Clay; further N.W. the land is Kimmeridge Clay, partly covered by an area of Plateau Gravel. Woolland … settlements at the junction of the Chalk and the Gault Clay. Woolland occurs in Domesday Book (Vol. I, f. 78), with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises 568 acres, of which the prevailing soil is clay. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for 37. … and pasture, and 150 woodland; the soil is generally clay, alternated with red loam. The small river Devon, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises 3400 acres. The soil is chiefly a strong clay, well adapted for wheat; the surface is varied, but in … remainder meadow and pasture. The soil is generally a deep clay, interspersed occasionally with chalk, and gravel; and … and 302 common. The soil is gravel, interspersed with clay and marl; the surface is undulated. The living is a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Oolite Limestone in the N. down through the limestones, clay and silts of the Estuarine Series to Northampton Sands and Upper Lias Clay in the S. with a little alluvium on the sides of the … 40). A further air photograph, taken in 1978, records pits and a ring ditch(?) in the same area ( Northamptonshire …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to west. A small area in the extreme north is overlain by clay-with-flints. 99 An intermittent head stream of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… series of ages: this sediment is in some places a pure clay, adapted to the making of bricks, but is generally a rich mould. Valuable clay and loamy soils occupy nearly half the county in its … of it is exported by means of the Avon navigation. Brick-clay, gravel, sand, and marl, exist in numerous places. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… south of that, then, as the ground rises, bands of London clay, and sands and gravels. Most of the higher south part of the parish is boulder clay, good farming land, with a small pocket of sands and …