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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 … on SP 74055740), W. of Wootton Grange, on Upper Lias Clay, at 73 m. above OD. An air photograph shows rather vague …
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 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… p. The surface is undulated; the soil, which is a strong clay, is fertile, and near the river the scenery is … are being made; the soil in some places is a light sandy clay, in others peat, and the views are fine and extensive. … the surface is undulated; the soil various, but chiefly clay, with a subsoil of clay and gravel; and the scenery …
A History of the County of Sussex
… town, which may have been exacerbated by the extraction of clay, sand, and other materials from the beach in the late …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in Worthing. He later discovered on Worthing common a blue clay exposed by sea erosion which made white or cream bricks. … gain business outside the town in the 19th century. 21 A clay-pipe-making industry, centred on Anchor Lane, later …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The soil is various, in the upper lands generally a stiff clay, and in the lower a heavy marl, alternated with gravel; … 2000 acres uninclosed; the surface is undulated, the soil clay in the higher parts, and alluvial in the lower, and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… the N.W. corner, which has sunk badly, on account of the clay subsoil; the wall is strengthened by a modern buttress. …