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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… round. The soil of this parish is rather fertile, being a sandy loam, producing good crops of corn as well as hops, of … principally in East-Malling next to this, the land is sandy, the southern is near the rock, and near and on the …
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
… glover Thomas Murton, cordewener Mortuus est Johannes Sandy, carpenter Thomas Staynton, chapman Robertus Dawtre, …
Journal of the House of Lords
… is better; the Cotton near the Coast is woolly, from the Sandy Nature of the Soil; the Upland Cotton has a better …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Chelsea, Fulham, Chiswick. The soil varies from strong to sandy loam, mixed with sand and gravel, some black and … general in three weeks. Reaping was done by 'a toothless hook, of about twice the weight of a common sickle.' 45 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… acres of red land lying towards Banbury, Wardington, Hook Norton, Adderbury, Bodicote, Wigginton, &c. 2. 166,000 … has attained to a high state of efficiency. The fagging-hook is still used to cut peas and badly-laid corn crops. … this breed are produced in the county. The Oxfordshire or sandy pig, a cross betwixt a Tamworth and a Berkshire, is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… advantageous. Some parts of the Chalk Country, such as the sandy loams of the Vale of Pewsey, were suited to turnips and … subsequently fallowed and stirred in later summer. On the sandy loams there was usually one of four courses: (1) wheat, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 600 acres. They ranged in rent from 3 12 s. an acre for sandy soils suitable for early vegetables, to 1 19 s. 9 d. …