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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of lead are made into ingots yearly; and two excellent slate-quarries are in operation. The road leading from Reeth, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… rubble with stone dressings; the roofs are covered with slate. The present Chancel and Nave were built c. 1250, but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… of local carstone rubble and has a tiled roof with stone-slate verges. It was built probably in the 17th century but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. It was built perhaps early in the 18th century …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of which the hills are mainly composed, and clay-slate. The parish is in the presbytery of Selkirk and synod … are mostly of the old red sandstone formation, grey slate of good quality for roofing, and limestone, which, from … strata of red sandstone; the hills are principally of clay-slate and greywacke, in which masses of quartz are found. At …
Survey of London
… slabs of different sizes, inset with a regular pattern of slate diamonds, originally linked by incised lines simulating …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 19th century also dealt in coal, Evershed and Co. also in slate in 1845, and Marshall and Fry, later Fry and Son or William Fry, in slate in the 1860s and 70s 96 and in tiles and chimney pots … Smart, later Alfred Smart (fl. c. 183278), also dealt in slate, Pulborough stone, and fire bricks and tiles. 99 In the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… houses are principally built of red brick, and roofed with slate; the streets are partly paved, and the inhabitants are … length: the houses are built of stone, and roofed with slate, which is obtained from quarries in the vicinity. The … cloth and for the spinning of yarn, and in addition to the slate-quarries, mines of tin and copper are still worked. An …