A Scientific Survey of the Cambridge District |
Contents
THE GEOLOGY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF | 1 |
The Relief of Cambridgeshire and the surrounding country page | 3 |
Depth of the Palaeozoic Floor in feet below O D | 5 |
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acreage acres agricultural Ampthill Clay arable banks Bedford River Boulder Clay boundary Bourn Brook Breckland British Bronze Age Burwell C. H. Cooper Cambridge Cambridgeshire Carex Chalk channel Chesterton common County crops cultivation Denver Sluice deposits Devil's Dyke district Ditch Domesday drainage drains Dyke Early Iron Age east estuary farms fauna Fenland flint flood Gault Granta Grantchester gravels Hill important increase industry Isle of Ely Kimeridge Clay King's land Littleport loam Lower Greensand Lynn Marl Marsh Middle Level miles Newmarket nineteenth century Norfolk occur Old Bedford River Ouse outfall Oxford Clay parishes peat period plants population pumping railway rainfall recent recorded Rock Royston sand sedge settlement sheep silt soils South Level species Suffolk sugar beet surface Terrace town University upland Upper Upware Valentia valleys vegetation villages water table Wicken Fen winter Wisbech woodland woods