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A History of the County of Oxford
… with the introduction of machinery for producing crushed limestone for agriculture. By 1999 agricultural limestone accounted for 2030 per cent of output, the rest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the east end of Asthall village overlying Clypeus Grit limestone and White limestone extending from Worsham to beyond Asthall Leigh. The … on areas of mainly Forest Marble Clays, most containing limestone. Within the area in the north-west (south-west of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1999, it is a substantial L-plan building of coursed limestone. Its long range is orientated north-west to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… apparently in late 1862. 169 Constructed of coursed limestone, it provided 140 sittings. 170 From 1900 to 1910, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the 18th century. Most surviving buildings are of limestone rubble with stone-slated roofs, though thatch may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… fishpond to the west. The surviving house, 34 of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and gabled … south of Bridge Street. 48 It comprises a long range of limestone rubble, aligned east-west and not quite parallel to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existing Cote chapel, 70 a large single-cell building of limestone rubble with a gabled stone-slated roof and a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… of the village, and is built of roughly squared, coursed limestone rubble, with dressings of limestone and shelly oolite; the roof is tiled. The Chancel …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Bridgnorth to Ludlow, and comprises 2238 a. 22 p.: limestone is obtained for manure, but in very small quantity, … is of average productiveness. There are some quarries of limestone, and also of stone for building. The living is a … and the Oxford and Rugby railway intersects a part of it. Limestone is quarried for building. The apricot-tree is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Wear, in a fertile district abounding with coal and limestone, and remarkable for the salubrity of the air. The …