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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to relieve unemployment (Oldham, Hist. Wisb. River, 6). A gravel walk along East Field Bank was laid out in 1824 (Diary …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… N.W. of the R. Allen, on a slight hillock of clay on river gravel. Flint and mortar footings 4 ft. wide formed a circle … a mosaic floor set in mortar. On a platform of compacted gravel to the S.W. were the slighter flint footings of an … 9 ft. from the N. W. end. A semicircular extension of the gravel platform, 35 ft. wide, projected 14 ft. further S.W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hills, which are composed of ferruginous or basaltic gravel. The springs which rise in the parsonage-grounds turn …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on the line of Puck Lane, at the highest point of the gravel island, was suggested in the 19th century, albeit for … limewash. Church Green, with its 'wide and handsome gravel walk' leading to the church, was especially admired. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 18th century and early 19th they made small payments for digging gravel, for repairs to railings and a drain at Church Green, … in the market place, failing to scour watercourses, digging a well in High Street, and, in 1740, creating a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the workhouse, and the kitchen, which is nearly entire. In digging for the foundation of the new church, it was … soil, on the whole, good, consisting of clay, sand, and gravel, with bog. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued …
A History of the County of Essex
… heathland just north of the Alresford road, and that gravel and sand were extracted in the west of the parish. 70 … mainly in Col- chester. 36 Wivenhoe Sand, Stone & Gravel Co., later Redland Aggregates Ltd., was established in …
A History of the County of Essex
… from the higher parts. Much of the parish is glacial gravel and sand, but there is glacial loam in the north-east … quay and early town where there is an outcrop of sand and gravel. 91 COMMUNICATIONS The road from Col- chester to …
A History of the County of Essex
… early 19th century surveyors supervised the spreading of gravel and stones on the roads. Wivenhoe became part of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… partly floored by clay but with extensive areas of river gravel and alluvium near the Nene. The parish is notable for … are those revealed by air photography on the limestone and gravel, but there are also many settlements on the higher … Pit Alignments (SP 899644; Fig. 156), 400 m. S. of (2), on gravel at 46 m. above OD. Air photographs (CUAP, ZE 74) show …