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    Torr Works quarry, grid reference ST695446 is a limestone quarry at East Cranmore, near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England. The quarry...
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  • which have been landscaped to blend with the surrounding countryside. Torr Works' output was six million tonnes per year by 1992. John Yeoman had long...
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    1997 and 2014, before returning to the UK. Foster Yeoman operated the Torr Works quarry near Merehead in Somerset, with much of the output going to rail-served...
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    to London and South-East England. The Foster Yeoman quarries are at Torr Works and Dulcote Quarry, while Hanson has plants at Batts Combe Quarry and...
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  • Look up Torr or torr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Torr may refer to: Torr, a unit of pressure named for physicist Evangelista Torricelli Torr (surname)...
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    traffic to the nearby Merehead Quarry. The quarry, which is also known as Torr Works, covers an area of some 200 hectares, including 60 hectares which have...
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    years, was made safe by a bomb disposal team before being removed to the Torr Works quarry and blown up. Grayling, A. C. (2006); Among the dead cities; Bloomsbury...
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    there are large active limestone quarries, such as Whatley Quarry and Torr Works, formerly known as Merehead, along with disused quarries. Whatley Quarry...
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    were built at the BR's Crewe, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster and Horwich works. In 1985, three locomotives were reduced in height for use on the Burry...
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    1853 created a series of tunnels, pipes, and aqueducts called the "Line of Works", which still carry approximately 18,200 m3 (4 million imperial gallons)...
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    local issues. The town council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch...
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  • Centerport. Torr remained[clarification needed] in the house on the millpond but never painted again. Helen Torr died in 1967. In 1979, her works and Dove's...
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    John Wainwright & Co Ltd Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest Torr Works (Merehead) East Cranmore / Downhead ST695446 Foster Yeoman – Aggregate...
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    Evangelista Torricelli (/ˌtɒriˈtʃɛli/ TORR-ee-CHEL-ee; Italian: [evandʒeˈlista torriˈtʃɛlli] ; 15 October 1608 – 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist...
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    carried out by Philip Rahtz and Ernest Greenfield employed by the Ministry of Works, from 1953 to 1955. The excavations found evidence of people belonging to...
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  • Jo Torr (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist. Torr's work explores cultural exchange between European and Polynesian peoples through the lens of costume...
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    often through swallets such as Plantation Swallet near St Cuthbert's lead works between the Hunter's Lodge Inn and Priddy Pools. It then passes through...
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  • corresponds to 0.76 Torr or 101.3 Pa. This limitation makes rotary compression pumps very hard to construct if lower pressures than about 1 Torr is to be achieved...
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