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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… about 1860 acres of land; the soil is principally clay, and the surface flat. The living is a discharged … The soil is generally chalk, alternated with gravel and clay; the surface is for the most part undulated, in some … and pasture; the soil is a stone brash, alternated with clay. An act for inclosing certain waste lands was passed in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… parish. The walls are of stone, flint-rubble and boulder clay, formerly covered with plaster; the dressings are of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and of which a fifth is pasture land. The soil is a strong clay, producing fine crops of wheat and beans, and the …
Alumni Oxonienses
… D.D. 1726; "decipherer to the king"; rector of Barton-le-Clay, Beds, 1718, canon and dean of Lincoln 1730, canon of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… flat, and the soil composed in equal portions of a stiff clay and a fine sand. The living is a rectory, valued in the … pasture. The soil varies from a loamy sand to a retentive clay; the surface, though generally level, is enlivened with … agreeably diversified; the soil is various, in some parts clay, and in others sandy loam. Wighill Park, the seat of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meadow and pasture, and 20 woodland: the soil is chiefly clay, well adapted to the growth of wheat; the surface is … meadow, 20 woodland, and 12 common; the soil is chiefly clay. In the centre is a small elevated wood, from which is a … 640 acres. The soil is various, principally inclining to clay and gravel, and the surface generally level, in some …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The S. third of the parish is largely on Boulder Clay at about 120 m.135 m. above OD, except in the extreme S. … parish, immediately S.W. of Long Plantation, on Boulder Clay at 137 m. above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show a … 400 m. W.S.W. of Pipewell Upper Lodge, on Boulder Clay at 122 m. above OD. Roman sherds have been found, and a …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… moraine, composed of glacial sand and gravel and boulder clay, exceeds 50 ft. above sea-level across the whole width … but much of it occupied the outwash sand, silt, and clay of the low ground in the middle of the parish. In the … by Brickyard Farm, in Carr Lane at Newton, 29 and old clay pits south of the Hull road in Wilberfoss. 30 There are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and 60 m. above OD. The higher N.W. parts are on Boulder Clay but the down-cutting of the brook and its tributaries … including fragments of samian, has been found, as well as clay tiles and buff sandstone roofing tiles, associated with … Roman Pottery (SP 858675), 550 m. W.N.W. of (2) on Boulder Clay at 91 m. above OD. Roman pottery, including a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… above which are smaller outcrops of cornbrash and Oxford clay surmounted by an island of unbedded glacial drift upon … Grange, however, indicate that even the heavy Oxford clay was at one time put under the plough. Almost a quarter …