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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hilly, and the soil rests principally on limestone and peat. The river Lowther bounds the parish on the east, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Worsley; the soil of about 1500 acres is or has been a peat moss, and that of the remainder is chiefly a clayey …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the latter to a considerable extent. A great quantity of peat is obtained in a neighbouring turbary, through which a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and rugged aspect, consisting of large tracts of moor and peat moss, interspersed with a few detached portions of … were discovered a few years since, by persons cutting peat, at a depth of about twelve feet below the surface of … number of persons that worked in the granite quarries and peat-mosses of Aberdeen, brought into this district. There …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… on boulder clay and sand and gravel. A small area of peat lies in the extreme north-east. 11 From Badger village …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… thought to be debris caused during the later occupancy by peat-cutters. In the centre is a horseshoe-shaped bank which … To the N.W. of the central hut are the fallen stones of a peat-cot of later date, but within the area of the fallen … central hut. From this Mr. Collingwood inferred that the peat cot was built on the foundations of an original hut. ( …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… surface undulated, rising to the summit of Barbon Fell. Peat is in abundance, and there is a small vein of coal. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… since, from moorland, and 5000 still consist of sea-beach, peat-bog, and wood; about 4000 acres are employed for grain, … the interior is a deep clayey mould, mixed sometimes with peat-moss: the subsoil is usually clay and sand, with a … the construction of dykes. There are, also, large beds of peat-moss, some of which, near the shore, are covered with …
A History of the County of Sussex
… soft fruit, culinary herbs, grass seed, manure, and peat. In 1965, when the premises extended to c. 31 a., 30-40 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 9 In 1379-80 18 people paid pannage for 178 pigs; peat was cut and probably bees yielded honey. Browsing of …