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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… besides freestone and iron-ore, are cleft or clunch, and fireclay: the beds of ironstone and clunch that lie in the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Coal Measures and Old Red Sandstone. Coal and excellent fireclay are found. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Sandstone. Coal and iron are found and a peculiarly rich fireclay is mined in the district. Old Swinford comprised the … for the manufacture of fire-bricks, made from the valuable fireclay which is mined here. The presence of this clay …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… three cotton factories, a colliery and sanitary pipe and fireclay works. Manor Between 1160 and 1177 Henry de Lacy …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… mills, a paper-mill, colliery, brewery, brick works and fireclay works. There are large quarries at Cunliffe, Close …
A History of the County of Stafford
… mining sectors, usually in conjunction with ironstone and fireclay. Coal was evidently being mined in Walsall by the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… coal worked has been mainly the Thick Coal; ironstone and fireclay have also been mined. Early mining in West Bromwich … [C. 1056], pp. 111-16, H.C. (1874), xiii. There was also a fireclay mine. Reps. Inspector of Mines for South Stafford …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and Horsleymoor. Further opencast mining, primarily for fireclay, by Coalmoor Refractories (Horsehay) Ltd., began …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… white bricks, fire bricks, and land drainage pipes from fireclay. 85 The company got fireclay from its own pits. 86 In the early 1900s the …