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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… ash. . . . The stones and flags were set in and on red clay, and the clay appears to have overlain a bed of fine gravel containing … W. of the building were found layers of gravel resting on clay . . . but no trace of walls near. . . . The space …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gravel and loam on the south, and on the north a stiff clay. From the quarries here, was raised the stone for the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was opened by Samuel Stuckey c. 1787, presumably using clay on site. 8 The number of brickmakers and brickyard …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… a ridge of Lower Greensand along the road, and Kimmeridge Clay in the north. 14 A northward-flowing brook forms the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises about 4000 acres; the soil is generally clay, alternated with loam, and the surface flat. The living … pasture, and 45 woodland; the soil is generally a stiff clay. The chapel is an ancient structure, containing 120 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… In the S. around Wyke Regis is gently rising Kimmeridge Clay capped by an exposure of Corallian Limestone, which is succeeded to the N. by a large area of low lying Oxford Clay in the region of Radipole Lake and by two small …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… loam, with a subsoil partly gravel, and in some places clay, is adapted to the growth of wheat and oats 5 limestone … It comprises 1157 acres; the prevailing soil is clay. The Liverpool and Birmingham railway passes through the … It comprises 637 acres, the soil of which is partly clay and partly saud. The tithes have been commuted for 58. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the higher lands, on chalk, and in the lower, on clay. The surface is partly flat and partly undulated, and … St. Peter), a parish, in the union of East Retford, North-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of … St. Helen), a parish, in the union of East Retford, North Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… road beside the Severn. 5 The soil of the parish is the clay of the Lower Lias, and it is drained by the watercourses … with a lane from Eastington and School Lane, perhaps the Clay Lane of 1663, 23 which leads to the settlement by the …