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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. It comprises 1210 acres, the soil of which is clay, with peat. Woodford (St. Mary) WOODFORD ( St. Mary), a … are found limestone and red-sandstone; in the valley, clay, and a coarse stone belonging to the inferior oolite; … to the poor. Fossils are found in the limestone and clay, in the parish. Woodford (St. Mary) WOODFORD ( St. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and Inchbrook valleys are formed by deposits of Upper Lias Clay and Midford Sand, and most of the western part of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… well drained arable in the centre, and a wooded clay plateau to the south-east. 21 Twice as long as it is … was the accepted usage in 2001. A cap of boulder clay above 90 m. (295 ft.) rises gently to 120 m. (394 ft.) … open fields until inclosure under an Act of 1813. 34 The clay plateau was densely wooded when the Devil's Ditch was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1851 when there were 11 of them. 79 Bricks were made from clay dug south of Parsonage Farm in the 1880s, but the works …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… these valleys the land rises across outcrops of Upper Lias Clay, Northampton Sand and Oolite Limestone to a central ridge capped by Boulder Clay, with a maximum height of 155 m. above OD. No … 127), lies in the E. part of the parish, on limestone and clay between 107 m. and 122 m. above OD. The boundaries of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… to 280 ft. above OD. The higher S.W. part is on Boulder Clay, but along the valley sides bands of clays, limestones … R. Nene, on rising ground. They are situated on Boulder Clay at 220 ft. above OD and in a line orientated … lies N.W. of the Three Hills Barrows (24) on sand and clay at 220 ft. above OD. Limestone building-rubble, roof …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the village, on a steep N.W.-facing hillside of Upper Lias Clay, is a flight of strip lynchets (Fig. 151), a rare …
A History of the County of Essex
… years later the tenant of Ray House was licensed to dig clay from his land for this purpose. 36 A field in this …
A History of the County of Essex
… down to the river Roding. The soil is mainly London clay, with patches of gravel on the higher parts, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of trees, and the soil is rich, resting in some places on clay, and in others on chalk. In addition to a small village …