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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and pasture; the substratum abounds both with coal and ironstone, and some mines are in operation. A branch of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… township to north and south. The development of coal and ironstone mining in the 18th and 19th centuries may have …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… as Donnington Wood mill, closed in the 1970s. 75 Coal and ironstone. The township's mineral resources were exploited in … an opencast mine extracting coal, and almost certainly ironstone too, from the Middle Coal Measures that lay near … Wrockwardine Wood area where there were three layers of ironstone between the coal beds. Uppermost were smooth …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by cultivation. The substratum abounds in coal and ironstone; the mines are let on lease to the Low-Moor Iron … was established by the Messrs. Thompson, as a rich vein of ironstone runs through the township, chiefly on the south …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of alternations of sandstone, clay, shale, coal, and ironstone, which form the substrata of the most populous … near Leeds. Beneath it are found valuable beds of ironstone, which are worked at Rotherham, Haigh-bridge, Low … shells is found in contact with them. Contiguous to this ironstone are several strata of excellent coal. Next in the …