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A History of the County of Oxford
… fermentation to go on unchecked for too long a period. Mineral superphosphates are largely used with the greatest …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and thence vulgarly styled Oyster hills. There is a mineral spring in a garden near St. Michael's bridge. Matthew …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the county of Northampton, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Towcester; containing 166 inhabitants. On the north the … near Fountain's Abbey, is resorted to on account of its mineral springs, discovered about 1698, and whose sulphureous …
A History of the County of Northampton
… about nine miles south of Northampton and three miles from Towcester. The parish was separated from Stoke Bruerne on the … The modern expansion of the village began in 1943-8, when Towcester Rural District Council built a total of eight … from a number of leases in Alderton, Foscote, Abthorpe and Towcester. 35 Farming in the 18th and 19th centuries. During …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… such as BARILLA and KELP, which was later to be called MINERAL ALKALI. By the early modern period it had extended … Duhamel showed that there were distinct types of alkali, MINERAL ALKALI obtained from plant ashes (soda), vegetable … first sense; 1602 in the second See also BARILLA, KELP, MINERAL ALKALI, PEARL ASH, POTASH, SAL ALKALI, SODA, URINE. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for the sterility of the soil and the abundance of its mineral wealth. The lead-mines, in which the inhabitants are …