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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… at the point where it branches into two. The inn is an ironstone building of three bays, the north bay of which has … running east from this point there is a late-18th-century ironstone house, subsequently altered. Several of the … a windmill. The hall is a large three-storied building of ironstone and limestone, its plan taking the form of a …
A History of the County of Northampton
… county, Fermor-Hesketh (as he became) tried to exploit the ironstone at Easton Neston and also to improve both the farms … Lodge estate tried, with little success, to exploit the ironstone near the canal and railway at Blisworth, just … the hundred; efforts by the Easton Neston estate to open ironstone quarries at Showsley and Shutlanger were hampered …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and durability: they are generally imbedded in nodul of ironstone, of the same colour as the soil. Anne Yearsley, who …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the higher parts command extensive views. Coal and ironstone are wrought, employing many of the population, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… is only 0.25 m. high. The W. side has been re-used for an ironstone tramway, and is part of a complex series of … ends. The remains have been much damaged by a 19th-century ironstone tramway which has been cut across the site. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… outcrops of limestones and marls. In spite of largescale ironstone-mining relatively little archaeological material … area of the present steel works, were found in 1890 during ironstone-mining in the valley of a small brook, at 98 m. … on Boulder Clay at about 100 m. above OD. During ironstone-mining in 1902 a brick-lined kiln was dis covered. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the manual labour of the district; coal, limestone, ironstone, plumbago, clay-slate, basalt, several varieties of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the heart of a district abounding with mines of coal and ironstone; and the inhabitants are principally employed in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and West Hallam. The district abounds in coal and ironstone: the latter, in consequence of the increased trade …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… villages remain physically separate entities. Extensive ironstone-quarrying has taken place within the parish, though …