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Calendar of Border Papers
… William Mylner, la. "Littell Dalston."Giles Sadler, George Peat, Robert Becke, Richard Carelill, sp. and caps. … Thomas Robinson, George Raison, sp. and caps; George Peat, ja., bow, ar., cap; William Railton, la., cap; John … Scot, William Wodcoke, Thomas Huntington, la.; Henry Peat, bow, ar., cap; Simon Plummer, la.; John Huntington, …
Survey of London
… Street) there were up to 18 feet of mud plus 14 feet of peat and 4 feet of made ground above the sand and gravel … is insufficient to determine whether the deposit of peat and mud was made before or after the Roman occupation, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Glastonbury to the sea being almost a dead level. The 'peat moor' reaches from Glastonbury to Burtle. On the north … and undoubtedly the richest portion consists of the 'peat moor.' Unfortunately some of the rarest species have … the destruction of the old surface and the removal of the peat for a depth of several feet. Still however much remains. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Slight scarps (not shown on Fig. 23) and the existence of peat deposits (Geol. Survey I-inch map, sheet No. 188) …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chalk. In the northwestern fenland, gault is overlaid with peat and river gravels. 14 The higher ground at 30 m. on the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 4953 are arable, 1088 meadow, 3152 common, moss land, or peat, and 42 wood. The village stands on a rocky promontory, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… between which are covered with a mixture of pasture and peat-moss, is a dorsal eminence, on the eastern side, called … above the level of the sea, and which, being covered with peat-moss and various kinds of short grass and heath, … clay, gravel, and moss, the last supplying abundance of peat. The chief agricultural produce is barley and oats, the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… is a turbary, called Rhs Gch, producing very excellent peat, which is dug to the depth of fifteen feet from the surface. Beneath the peat are strata of blue clay and of clay of a yellow hue, the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… chalk is largely overlaid, except near the New River, with peat, with a few islands of river gravel. 7 Burwell Heath, … in Burwell fen was much lowered, partly by continual peat digging: about 1850 the lodes, drainage channels, and … 19 Burwell c.1800 In the north-west of Burwell fen the peat covered in places the submerged remains of a prehistoric …