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A History of the County of Hertford
… soil of the hills on the western or Harpenden side is of clay with flints; eastward of Harpenden Common it is mostly … a potter was presented at the manorial court for taking clay from Harpenden Common for making pots. 5 Torpen, the potter, was, in 1733, presented for taking clay from Balmwell Wood in Harpenden. Brick-making was much …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… by 2 km. long. Most of the centre of the parish was on clay with outcrops of limestone, and alluvium is found along …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… 5,310 a., of which 793 a. lay in Langwith. 4 The boulder clay of the moraine is topped by a narrow strip of sand and … above sea-level. 5 Elsewhere the outwash sand, gravel, and clay lie mostly at between 25 ft. and 50 ft., occasionally …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… grounds are watered by the river Nene; the soil is chiefly clay, alternated with gravel, and the substratum is excellent …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… streams have cut down through the Middle and Upper Lias Clay and Marlstone Rock and there are wide bands of alluvium … on land sloping E. to a small stream, on Upper Lias Clay at 110 m. above OD. There is an area of very disturbed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… surface is generally flat: the soil varies from a stiff clay to a light sand and gravel; grain of every kind is … all which it abounds, of blue brick, made of a fine bed of clay leased to Mr. Barns by the corporation of Newcastle. The … The area of the township is 1153 acres; the soil is clay. Tithe rent-charges have been awarded, of which 111. 10. …
A History of the County of Essex
… HISTORY. White Colne, like Wakes Colne, lies on a damp clay which 18th century agriculturalists distinguished from … being grown instead of a fallow. 73Although in 1794 the clay soil was considered poor, hollow draining having been …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish to 609 ha. 55 Much of White Colne lies on boulder clay, but the Colne and the Cambridge brook have cut through the clay to expose bands of London clay and Kesgrave sand and gravel; there are also bands of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the surface is undulated, and well wooded, the soil partly clay and partly sand. The manufacture of salt, many years … and pasture: the soil varies, but is principally chalk and clay; the surface is elevated, and in some parts hilly. The … 300 acres; the soil is various, consisting of sand, marl, clay, and peat-moss, resting chiefly on limestone, and there …
Old and New London
… had ornamented mouldings round them, and were of baked clay, in proper colours, and glazed in the manner of Delft …