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A Dictionary of London
… yard. Site rebuilt for business purposes. Wood Yard, Gravel Lane North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-Lond. Guide, … Wood and Co.'s Wharf. Woodner Court Out of Harrow Alley, Gravel Lane, Houndsditch (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831). Not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1687 gave liberty to plough Hudleys, and 10 a. or 12 a. of Gravel Pits had been ploughed by 1696. In 1765 there were 143 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… higher, ground is on Oxford Clay and the Wolvercote gravel terrace, with an area of brick earth near the Water … edge of Port Meadow all lie on patches of flood-plain gravel; the nucleus of Upper Wolvercote, around the church, is on a patch of the Wolvercote gravel terrace, as is the 19th-century Pear Tree Farm in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… town stands on a band of boulder clay and sand and gravel overlying the Middle Coal Measures. The coal measures … on the eastern side of the dividing band of clay and gravel, the workable coal seams are overlain by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the knoll on which the village stands, is composed of gravel. Among the principal proprietors are, Sir Henry E. L. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Chalk carries mostly light soils full of flints, with gravel and alluvium in the valleys; the clays on the plateau …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Fig. 117; Plate 4), S.E. of Woodford Grange, on River Gravel at 100 ft. above OD, close to the R. Nene. Air … in the S.E. of the parish, close to the R. Nene, on River Gravel at 110 ft. above OD. The site is first recorded in the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The soil is chalk containing a large amount of flint, with gravel in the river valley, and the land is mostly arable, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Roding. The soil is mainly London clay, with patches of gravel on the higher parts, and originally supported forest …