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Calendar, Committee for Compounding
… be desired to deliver up the estate of the Free Stone Quarries at Ketton, and the lands belonging thereto, it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bay, Beachy Head, and the adjacent country. There are quarries of good sandstone, which is used for building. The … It contains coal of inferior quality, and some extensive quarries of excellent freestone, from which the stone was … which there are nearly 230 acres. In the parish are some quarries of limestone, used for building, and also for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and recently the site has been described as 'disused quarries' (OS Record Cards). Nevertheless, as recorded below, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the gift of books to Magdalen College for the use of their quarries (at Open Magdalen below Shotover?), 1722 Dec. 1610. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… surface is undulated, and in parts hilly. There are some quarries of stone used chiefly for the roads. The living is a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to sand; the general surface is flat, and there are some quarries of sandstone. The living is a discharged rectory, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of benefit to the parish. Near the village are three quarries of freestone, in which several of the labouring poor … grey flagstone; the latter is very abundant, and several quarries have been wrought for roofing. Manganese has been … are employed in these works. There are likewise several quarries of sandstone of various kinds, and a quarry of white …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on by them. There are also a colliery, and four stone-quarries. A district church dedicated to Christ, in the early … in factories, and there are also coal-mines and stone-quarries. The Rochdale canal and the Manchester and Leeds …