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A History of the County of Hampshire
… account of the badness of the foundation (peat overlying gravel), and the adjoining parts of both transepts were … originally on the peat, are now being carried down to the gravel below, the whole work being made much more difficult by the fact that the gravel is well beneath the permanent water level of the site. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Street takes its name from being the site of the chesil or gravel bank on which the boats laden with timber and stone, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meadow and pasture; the soil is fertile, resting on gravel. The living is annexed to the vicarage of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Peter's Church in Came Park. The site, on chalk and valley gravel, is well-drained but there are water meadows N. of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… distance to the S.E. To the N., where the chalk has a gravel cap, gravel diggings are found. (13) Barrow ? (80620371), 450 yds. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… on the S. side of the Winterborne valley, on River Gravel and Chalk at about 330 ft. above O.D. The remains, … O.D. on a broad spur falling N.E., has been damaged by digging and by heavy ploughing. Diam. about 50 ft., ht. 2 ft. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… in plan and 848 acres in area, lies on Chalk and River Gravel, in the Winterborne valley, between 130 ft. and 300 …