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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ruins of Calder Abbey, described under Calder-Bridge. Freestone is obtained. The living is a perpetual curacy; net … on the road from Tewkesbury to Evesham; and abounds with freestone of good quality. The living is a vicarage, with the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… adorned with Grecian columns, and the exterior coated with freestone. Schools are maintained by voluntary contributions; … rocky and precipitous; and contains coal, limestone, and freestone: lead-ore is obtained at Kinneyside, where there …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and fairs. The parish abounds with coal, limestone, and freestone; and considerable quantities of cockles, called …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are thin veins of coal, and some excellent granite and freestone. The river Eagley rises in the vicinity. The … quality; there are considerable quarries of lime and freestone. Belsay Hall, a splendid edifice of Grecian … or repaired since the fire: it is of vast extent, built of freestone, with a north-west and south-west wing, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… &c.; the soil is generally clay upon a substratum of freestone rock, and the surface hilly, some of the highest … sea. There are mines of coal and ironstone, quarries of freestone in great variety, and some fine clay; the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… steam-furnaces: in Weetsleet and Walker townships are some freestone-quarries. The village of Long Benton, consisting … crops of corn and grass. The district abounds in coal and freestone. In the 17th century a seam of coal in the vicinity …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford
… Nos. 1518, two storeys, coursed rubble walls with freestone quoins, pantiles and slate roofs, comprise two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… In chancelagainst N. wall, (1) to John Skerne, [1593], freestone table-tomb (Plate 14) with brasses and canopy …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is richly wooded, and abounds with pleasing scenery; freestone resembling that of Bath, but of harder quality, is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… called in 1331, 82 is built of rubble and red brick with freestone dressings and has a chancel and a nave with a south …