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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Durham; comprising the townships of Cowpen-Bewley and NewtonBewley, and the chapelry of Wolviston; and containing 1653 … the soil is cold and wet, and in some places are pits of marl, sunk to a great depth; also quarries of stone, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are common or waste; of the whole, two-thirds are arable, and the remainder pasture. The soil is clay, loam, and gravel; and the surface gently undulated. Bilton Hall, … the erection of Winchester cathedral. The soil is a rich marl, and the lands are in profitable cultivation. The living …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BINTREE ( St. Swithin), a parish, in the union of Mitford and Launditch, hundred of Eynsford, E. division of Norfolk, 2 … parish, which is bounded on the west by the river Wensum, and situated on the road from Norwich to Fakenham, comprises … soil is various, consisting of dry loam resting on clay marl of a whitish colour, and of heavier mould resting on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This chapelry is bounded on the east by the river Soar, and comprises 1128 acres of arable and pasture land, of which the soil is generally light, and the substrata are sand, marl, and blue clay. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in …
Old and New London
… "White Hart"Sir Paul Pindar's House: its Ancient Glories and Present ConditionThe Lodge in Half-moon AlleySt. Helen's and the Nuns' HallThe TombsSir Julius CsarSir John CrosbyModern ImprovementsThe WindowsCrosby Hall and its HistoryAllusions to it in ShakespeareFamous Tenants …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… agreed to pay £10 of their income to a schoolmaster 96 and between that year and 1704 five masters were licensed to teach the school at … the free school. 97 A building for use as a school-house and courthouse standing at the north-west corner of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the river Frome roughly equidistant from Gloucester and Cirencester. Although anciently the centre of a hundred and of a large manor and ecclesiastical parish which included Stroud, the primary …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… parish had a Presbyterian meeting in the late 17th century and Baptists and Quakers were also established by the early 18th century. During the later 18th and earlier 19th centuries numerous other meeting-houses and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Whitley hundred but borders both Charlton Horethorne and Yarlington. 1 Blackford village, the only settlement, is … is irregular in shape, measuring 3 km. from north to south and 1.3 km. from east to west. In 1838 it comprised 566 a. 2 … blacksmith survived in 1939. 89 There were quarries and a marl pit in the parish in 1627, the latter to the north of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a detached part of Flaxley, covering 45 a. with one house and a population of seven, which lay on its western boundary … to over 500 ft.; the low ground is formed by the Keuper Marl and the high ground by Upper Silurian formations. 3 The …