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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the remainder fine pasture land. There are strata of limestone and freestone, and a limestone-quarry is in operation. In 1665 almost the entire …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… of the nave is of 16th-century brick. The dressings are of limestone, clunch, Barnack, and a hard stone resembling …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Romano-British, is indicated by a spread of broken limestone slabs and of 2nd to 4th-century pottery, including … samian, calcitegritted ware and mortaria, in arable. The limestone slabs, which must denote former building as the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… is a window of two lights, partly repaired; the jambs, of limestone, are probably of the 15th century. All the rear … arch and square head of a small 15th-century opening, of limestone. ConditionRuinous, overgrown with ivy. END OF THE …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… in Barnack stone, but the other arches are of fine white limestone. In the S. wall are two windows, the eastern modern …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hewish, 1978 inhabitants. It comprises 5389 a. 2 r. 5 p. Limestone abounds, and is quarried for building, and for … and of unusual size, and a stone coffin, were found in a limestone-quarry, about two feet below the surface. … The surface is undulated, and in the hills are quarries of limestone, and of freestone for building. The living is a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the existing houses on the N. side of High Street, on limestone at 90 m. above OD. A group of indeterminate … both of updraught type, oval in shape and constructed of limestone, with 14th-century wares of Potterspury type ( … 52427) Undated (10) Mounds (SP 751446), W. of Moor End, on limestone at 95 m. above OD. Three 'tumuli' are described in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (?) (SP 876591), in the extreme N. of the parish, on limestone at 80 m. above OD. Roman material is recorded from … of a quern and two coins have been found near an area of limestone rubble ( BNFAS, 1 (1966), 14; 6 (1971), 19, Yardley …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Midford Sands and the higher land of Inferior Oolite limestone, but in the east there are thin north-south bands …
A History of the County of Oxford
… been his already. 9 The predominant building material was limestone rubble. Most cottages were thatched, 10 and in 1983 …