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A History of the County of Lancaster
… and cotton-mills at Walk Mill and Cornholme. The soil is clay, with shale subsoil, and the land is chiefly used for … The roofs are apparently the old ones restored, and have clay floors in the roof space in the gables. At the back the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… existed about 1840. 3 The soil is sandy and gravelly, with clay subsoil; wheat, oats, beans and potatoes are grown and …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… inclosed by an Act passed in 1724. 5 The soil is mostly clay and peat. Wheat, oats and potatoes are grown, also …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… as its natural features are concerned. The soil is a stiff clay, and the chief produce wheat and oats, and many acres …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 2 The soil around Elmhurst hamlet is fine loam over clay; further east it is a mixture of fine and coarse loam. 3 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in the neighbourhood. The soil appears to be loam and clay, over solid sandstone rock. The area is 2,103 acres. 1 …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… fields where wheat and oats are generally grown on a clay soil. There are but few trees and scanty hedges, for the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… eastern end. 7 There were coal-mines at Clayton; potter's clay has been found on the moss. In 1859 the older people …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… The subsoil consists of the Coal Measures, the soil of clay. The situation is bleak and the land consists entirely … have been worked for three centuries, 3 also beds of fire-clay and of various kinds of stone. The population is chiefly …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… farms, &c., mines of coal, beds of valuable potter's clay, and timber. There was a recovery of the manors of …