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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and comprises by measurement 1067 acres. There are some gravel-pits, which afford good materials for repairing the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Samuel Pomfret, minister of the Presbyterian church in Gravel Lane, Houndsditch. 66 He is said to have visited …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… English Borough Thompson, B., 19034 'The Cow Meadow Gravel Pit', Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1831. 15 Changes in the character and extent of mineral extraction on Brown Clee 16 may have been the main causes of … boundary, on the higher parts of Brown Clee. 62 Commercial extraction seems to have begun in the 17th century. 63 A … to 1936 jobs were available on Abdon Burf in roadstone extraction, 71 but agriculture became otherwise the only …