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A History of the County of Sussex
… The southern half of the parish, 7 lying on the Gault clay and Lower Greensand outcrops, is rolling country with … further east. The northern half of the parish, on Weald clay, is flatter and lies mostly below 100 ft. The parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and 2353 in Lower Alderley; the prevailing soils are clay and sand. The surface is greatly diversified, and … of Aldford; of the latter the soil is loam, gravel, and clay: there are two quarries of red sandstone. The living is … wood, the last of which is tithe-free; the soil is a stiff clay, and produces good corn. The living is a rectory, valued …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… than 300 ft. above sea-level; the N. part is on London Clay, except for a narrow strip of Reading Beds along the N. …
Old and New London
… the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger …
A History of the County of Northampton
… the river are covered by alluvial deposits and Upper Lias Clay; Oolitic Limestones and Boulder Clay are found at higher levels. Until 1883, when the land … Road immediately south of Bozenham Mill Lane, with a clay pit further south. 56 The buildings survived to be …
A History of the County of Essex
… or Little Fordham manor, which lay partly on the London clay, in 1329 the 180 a. of arable was worth only 3 d. an … at Hill, Aldham Hall, and Church House farms; the boulder clay was arable, producing wheat, barley, clover, oats, … 1646 there was a Tylekill house on the out- crop of London clay north-west of Old Bourchiers Hall, and Tilekiln road was …
A History of the County of Essex
… to 717 ha. (1,770 a.). 3 Most of Aldham lies on boulder clay, but the underlying London clay is exposed between the Colne and Old Bourchiers Hall, to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inland counties. The neighbourhood affords a kind of red clay, well adapted for the finer sort of flower-pots, tiles, … exception of 200 acres, tithe-free; the soil is a stiff clay, and the surface undulated and pleasingly wooded. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on the N. side of Harper's Brook, on gravel, sand and clay at just under 100 ft. above OD. The whole area has been … 97178517), on level ground at 300 ft. above OD on Boulder Clay in the N. of the parish. It is visible on air … on a S.E.-facing slope at 170 ft. above OD on Oxford Clay. Roman pottery of 3rd and 4th-century date and a scatter …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… east to west and covering 292 ha. (721 a.). 5 Lower Lias clay occupies the centre of the parish between valley gravel … fields. 15 The two-field system of planting on cold wet clay probably restricted cropping, and of 109 a. of crops …