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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and heavy clay in other parts: a very hard species of ironstone is quarried for building. Many females and children …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the iron forge adjoining Brewood Park. 114 There was then ironstone also within two miles of the park. 115 The forge …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… some potteries. It appears by an old deed, that coal and ironstone were obtained at this place as early as the 46th of … mineral produce, and the hamlet contains mines of coal and ironstone, which are extensively worked at Kidsgrove and in … great quantities of the latter are quarried for building; ironstone was formerly wrought, and there were furnaces for …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… small outlier of Inferior Oolite rocks of Northampton sand ironstone, which also form the escarpment south of the River … Holt Yard, close to the site of a disused brick-yard and ironstone quarry. The Corby (Northants.) Water Company built … contain many old houses, almost all of which are built of ironstone. In the better houses the dressings are of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Their discovery is due, at least in part, to extensive ironstone-mining in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, … said to have been found in the parish around 1900, during ironstone-quarrying (T. J. George, ibid.). A Roman well … of Roman pottery and a well were discovered during ironstone-mining in 1960 (CBA Group 9, Newsletter, 3 (1973), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the rapid increase of the place, is its mines of coal and ironstone, which occupy, as far as they are at present … but there are also all the other measures of coal and ironstone which usually accompany it, forming the well-known … on the north side of this fault, thin measures of coal and ironstone are met with near the surface, that usually lie at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… derived its importance from the numerous mines of coal and ironstone in the neighbourhood, which made it the resort of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Ages. 12 For 350 years from the late 16th century coal, ironstone, and clay were successively exploited in the … also includes Jackfield, the port from which coal and ironstone were shipped out of Broseley, and the main site in … community, where cottages and alehouses stood among ironstone mines, ironworks, brickworks, pottery kilns, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… the village. The walls are of rubble with some pebbles and ironstone; the dressings are of Barnack and other freestone …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… occupation site was noticed in the early 1960s during ironstone quarrying and Roman pottery and an iron spearhead …