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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… on Mr Copley's ground called the outmore flat in Wadworth sand field about this tyme twelvemonth in the afternoone of a …
9th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… were not thought needful, as for Cambridge and the salt pits in Worcestershire. He concluded with the direction of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… comprises by measurement 1067 acres. There are some gravel-pits, which afford good materials for repairing the roads; … esteemed for its dairy and feeding produce; the soil is sand and clay: there are quarries of sandstone and limestone, … lower grounds are more favourable to agriculture. A few pits on the hills yield an inferior coal, much of which is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the soil between the town and the sea is clay and sand, tolerably well adapted for tillage, and the land in the … an inscribed Roman stone was discovered in one of the high sand-hills on the western bank of the new cut at Port-Talbot: … highly favourable for bathing, being composed of hard firm sand; and several respectable houses, and a commodious hotel, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the river, but after passing through a filtering bed of sand. The engines, of which there are two, of 30-horse power … attended. The beach on the sea-coast is a fine level sand, affording every facility for bathing, and is much … of the river within narrow limits, would remove a bank of sand accumulated there. In 1773, an act of parliament was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 32 linked the squatter cottages and limekilns to the coal pits across the parish boundary. 33 In 1991 metalled roads …