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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a well-wooded undulating area of Reading Beds and London Clay, is drained by tributaries of the Crane. The parish … S.E. part of the parish, on the Reading Beds and London Clay, was a detached part of Gussage St. Michael until the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… The land exhibits the usual variation from boulder clay in the N., where it rises to a scarp over 250 ft. above … (Class A2(a); N.G. TL 346516), in Cobb's Wood on gault clay at 125 ft. above O.D., is probably that of the manor … open-field ridge and furrow, lying to the N. on boulder clay and chalk marl and to the S. on gault clay, is preserved …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and flows first south and then south-west across a broad clay valley, forming the boundary with Charlton Musgrove. It … through a ridge of disjointed outcrops of Forest Marble clay and Cornbrash limestone. Emerging from that valley, the … forming a band of alluvium sandwiched between Oxford Clay, eventually joining the river Stour. 89 Wincanton town, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 650 inhabitants. It comprises 857 acres, partly a clay and partly a sand soil. Winchcomb (St. Peter) WINCHCOMB … flat, the soil in some parts loamy, and in others a strong clay, producing good wheat and beans. The Basingstoke canal … It comprises 2467 acres, the soil of which is partly clay and partly sand. The living is a perpetual curacy; net …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the surface is undulated, and the soil a strong fertile clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at … quality, a poor thin soil resting upon a retentive clay, and altogether unsheltered by woods or plantations; the … The Roman Ikeneld-street may be traced in the parish. At Clay-Cross, the Midland railway is carried through a tunnel …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the Chalk are narrow outcrops of Reading Beds and London Clay which in turn give way to extensive heathland on Bagshot … S.E. of West Burton Dairy (29), on Reading Beds and London Clay. West Burton appears to have been a flourishing …
A History of the County of Stafford
… (six) by Valentine Ash, who in the early 1760s dug for clay in Winshill wood; his kilns were probably those in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… rock is sandstone with some marl, overlain with boulder clay in the south-eastern part of the township along Ashby …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of fuller's earth 3 and the soil is stone brash resting on clay. 4 The parish has arable and grassland in almost equal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… largely of flints; in the centre 'on a raised bed of clay' was a cremation under an inverted urn; a secondary …