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A History of the County of Somerset
… running north-south between broad bands of Oxford Clay and alluvium on the east and of Forest Marble clay on the west. The hamlet of Combe Throop, probably of the 17th century, lies on Oxford Clay 1 km. east of Abbas Combe. 3 The principal route running …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for its dairy and feeding produce; the soil is sand and clay: there are quarries of sandstone and limestone, and coal … the surface is very irregular, and the soil a strong red clay in the higher grounds, with a sheep-walk, having much …
A History of the County of Essex
… in Ongar hundred. All the Rodings are situated on Boulder Clay in the valley of the River Roding, which takes its name …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… by computation; the soil between the town and the sea is clay and sand, tolerably well adapted for tillage, and the … the soil is generally of good quality, resting upon clay, and the chief produce is wheat, barley, oats, and … opposite to the port, in 1824: it is composed of burnt clay, and is nearly covered with an incrustation of oyster …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… for the making of bricks and tiles, for which purpose clay of good quality is found in the neighbourhood. Coal-gas … is mostly a light and friable loam, partly intermixed with clay, and generally very fertile; the system of agriculture …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… Vols. IIII, ed. W. Farrer (191416); Vols. IVXII, ed. C. T. Clay, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Extra …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… Vols. iiii, ed. W. Farrer (191416); Vols. ivxii, ed. C. T. Clay, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Extra …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… IIII, ed. W. Farrer (191416); Vols. IV xii, ed. C. T. Clay, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, Extra …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1854 the roofs were of stone slates, 25 later replaced by clay tiles. In 1731 the church was 'very ruinous' and needed …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… into the Frith. The soil near the coast is a strong loamy clay, which, with good husbandry, yields fine crops, but in … or granite, and in some parts are seen convolved masses of clay and limestone, in which have been found the fossil … along the coast, the whinstone is quarried extensively; clay of good quality for bricks and tiles is found, and about …
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