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A History of the County of Oxford
… 23 and his apprentice John Hooper (d. 1772), who owned a quarry at Bladon and left bequests of over 900; Hooper was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… church, dedicated to Christ. In the side of the Mendip hills, about a mile and a half from the village, is the … This place occupies the eastern declivity of the Cheviot hills; and near it is the village of Humbleton, celebrated …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 40 and 138 tons of stone sailed frequently between Tintern Quarry and Avonmouth from 1872 to 1876, 35 and a little … in 1682 probably came from Woolaston Woodside. 52 Tintern Quarry at Passage Farm was worked for a few years in the … docks and railway. The lease expired in 1876 and the quarry went out of use. 53 Other disused quarries in 1880 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… supply was piped to the fields c. 1955. 12 Between the hills and the Gloucester-Chepstow road the land, falling …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was dug in the east field in the 17th century, 2 and a quarry, excluded from a tenement c. 1700, was still in use in 1770. 3 A stone quarry seems to have opened or re-opened between 1861 and … called Jew Rock made very good lime. 8 There were former quarry grounds in two places south of the road to Puriton. In …