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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1950 acres; the soil is tolerably fertile, and there are quarries of chalk and blue lias, which are burnt into lime …
Old and New London
… of 55 feet. The stone for building it was drawn from the quarries at Portland, under authority of the sign-manual of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Coupe, of Oak-Vale cottage. There are also extensive quarries, producing an abundance of millstones for grinding, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and in some points strikingly picturesque. There are quarries of good building-stone. The living is a perpetual …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the surrounding scenery diversified. There are ten quarries of excellent stone, frorn which the Sheffield …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… persons engaged, among other occupations, in the freestone-quarries in its immediate neighbourhood. The stone is of a … building the bridge of Hamilton were procured from these quarries. Windy-Edge WINDY-EDGE, a hamlet, in the parish of … age. Many of the population are also occupied in granite quarries, which are extensively wrought for exportation; and …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of the parish (131 a.) was glebe. There were two small quarries on the road from Wicken to Deanshanger at work in … estate from their income from their Caernarvonshire slate quarries. 45 The estate was enlarged by the purchase in 1877 … near the river. Wicken was among the parishes in which quarries were opened (or enlarged) in the late 1950s to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… panels. Re-set in a screen are several 15th-century glass quarries each with a bird. Wickham Hall, Glass Quarries The Moat surrounds the house. ConditionOf house, …