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A History of the County of Somerset
… western end the moors to the north and south are mostly of peat with a narrow strip of mudstone immediately to the south …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the moors afford an almost inexhaustible supply of peat for fuel. The township consisted wholly of common until …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a few years ago, some human bones were discovered. In the peat-mosses are found trunks of oak and fir so large, that …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the soil is various, consisting of sand, marl, clay, and peat-moss, resting chiefly on limestone, and there is a bed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… clay, in others a loose gravel, and in parts sand and peat-moss. The village is pleasantly situated near the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… soil is partly a red earth and partly an indifferent black peat, and the surface very uneven and rocky. Whitwick …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fen south-west of the village, are extensive beds of peat, which in Sedge fen overlay a layer of shell marl in those places where the marl was not eliminated by peat digging. 23 Most of the parish is virtually level … 2 June 1961; A. Day, Wicken, 20; idem, Turf Village: Peat Diggers at Wicken (1985), 15. 86 C.R.O., Q/RLv 2, pp. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the poor still by custom dug turf there for firing, the peat had been almost worked out, 25 but the land was still …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 300 a. and Wicken Hall's 40 a., were much dug for peat in the 18th and 19th centuries. 79 The eastern part of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3078 acres, partly a light soil, partly stony, and partly peat. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Wilden (St. …