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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the carriage ways are macadamized with a durable kind of ironstone brought from the border of Leicestershire; the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 17th-century houses are built mainly of the local ironstone, but in the area near Market Place there are … material in the 18th century was the soft, brown, Lias ironstone quarried locally and of a quality that varied … in colour and texture: as in the case of the local ironstone, brick pits reached a number of different strata of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which may be due to the re-use of medieval materials. The ironstone front range is of two stories with a semi-basement …
A History of the County of Oxford
… As elsewhere in north Oxfordshire the soil is chiefly red ironstone, and where deep is some of the best in the county …
A History of the County of Oxford
… merely as No. 9 Dashwood Terrace. It is built of the local ironstone and consists of two parallel, two-storied ranges … of the manorhouse class. The house is a two-storied ironstone building on an E-shaped plan with some later brick … the present house. The range is a much altered two-storied ironstone ashlar building with an offset base. The three- and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… firs of extraordinary dimensions; the chief minerals are ironstone and lead-ore, and there are some fine quarries of … coal and limestone, which are wrought extensively; clay-ironstone is also found, and good brickclay, used at manufactories here for making drain-tiles; ironstone exists in several parts, and a freestone quarry is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… received £5 13 s. from the quarrying of stone, presumably ironstone. 52 In 1532 the priory let a smithy in Shirlett, … Thomas Munslow. The furnace was to be supplied with ironstone from Shirlett and wood from Willey and Caughley. 53 … perhaps the 'new smithy' noted in 1552. 55 In the 1550s ironstone was mined at Barrow hill and Willey Heald. 56 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3931 are common or waste: it contains extensive veins of ironstone, and is intersected in every direction by numerous … the soil is fertile, and the substrata are chiefly coal, ironstone, and limestone; the rateable annual value of the … at 1116. There are several collieries in operation; ironstone is exported in great quantities, and limestone is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as the Elms in the later 19th century, 32 was rebuilt in ironstone in 1888. 33 It was bought in 1905 by Charles …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… above the level of the sea. There are mines of coal and ironstone, quarries of freestone in great variety, and some …