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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… 6, 89 Key-plan of Monuments, etc. p. 47 Coffin Lid (1) of Limestone, late 13th or early 14th-century 181 Monument (1) …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Abbas and Temple Combe was on a narrow strip of Cornbrash limestone running north-south between broad bands of Oxford …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… contains good building-stone of the granite species, and limestone, both of which are quarried. The living is a … soil is sand and clay: there are quarries of sandstone and limestone, and coal exists. Abberton Hall, the manor-house, … Sherburn, is built on the gentle acclivity of a rock of limestone, near the small river Cock, a stream abounding with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… parish. The walls are of mixed rubble with dressings of limestone; the tower is of red brick. The roofs are tiled. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… are Badwrdda, Carreg, and Methlem. A stratum of excellent limestone has been discovered, which, from the scarcity of limestone in this part of the country, promises to be of … coasting-trade: the imports are coal, culm, grocery, limestone, bricks, timber, &c., and the exports, timber poles …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… was 12 ft. 9 in. wide, and consisted of "unworked nodular limestone hand-pitched on the virgin soil (a hard red marl). … are of the same material and of hard grey and gritty limestone; the roofs are covered with stone slates and lead. … of the corbels are old. The walling inside is partly of limestone-ashlar and partly of rubble. The E. wall (Plate 74) …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… majestic growth. The substratum is generally carboniferous limestone, and coal interspersed with trap; the limestone is quarried for manure and other uses, and there … years. Fossils of various kinds are found imbedded in the limestone; and there are some quarries of freestone in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… In S. aislein S. wall, (1) tomb-recess (Plate 13) of limestone, with moulded and cinque-foiled ogee head, moulded …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… no. 20; /1340, no. 6; /3880, Salop. no. 95; /4945, no. 95. Limestone quarrying and lime burning were probably … premises. 45 Quarrying followed the two narrow bands of limestone. 46 In 1810 'Abdon limeworks' 47 were above Marsh …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and in some parts are seen convolved masses of clay and limestone, in which have been found the fossil remains of … in succession. On the west side of the mountains, is limestone of very superior quality, of a blue colour, with … by the tenants of the several farms. To the west of the limestone range, is a mountain consisting almost entirely of …