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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… modifications of moss, with admixtures occasionally of clay incorporated with particles of rock and of sand … The soil is principally a light loam intermixed with clay, and has been by good cultivation mostly rendered … thriving. The substrata are principally limestone and clay; the former is worked at Kidlaw, in the southern part of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… extreme W. where the higher ground is covered by Boulder Clay. The intensive occupation of Yarwell during the Roman …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and pasture; the soil varies from a light sand to a strong clay, with portions of rich loam. The living is a vicarage, … pasture, and orchard. The soil is generally a strong clay. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 130 a. of arable land, described as strong loam on clay above a substratum of gravel; the grass, of good …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Hill (87 m.) and near Home wood ( c. 90 m.), and Oxford clay the hill slopes. 80 The problem of flooding, not …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… except in the extreme W. of the parish where Lower Lias Clay is exposed most of the area is covered by Boulder Clay. The western projection of the parish may relate to an … (?) (SP 595745), in the S. of the parish, on Boulder Clay at 125 m. above OD. A few sherds of Roman pottery have …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… consists of elevated and sterile hills; the rocks are clay slate; the soil of the arable land is sandy, and the … its immediate neighbourhood, is found an abundance of fire-clay of the best quality, some of which is conveyed down the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… various. In some places a yellowish, in others a reddish, clay occurs. A loose freestone rubble, resting either upon a freestone rock or upon clay, is also very common; and in different other places is … consists of a great number of alternations of sandstone, clay, shale, coal, and ironstone, which form the substrata of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… (p.s. see p. 176.) The site is the N.W. tip of a spur of clay between the rivers Ouse on the W. and Foss on the E., a … but those of 1902 revealed that above the natural boulder clay the structure of the mound was in four layers consisting of clay and soil, including Roman pottery and disturbed burials, …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… esq., George Emerson, Richard Legh, and John Germyn John Clay, esq. 8 messuages with lands in Little and Great Fenton …