Combe Down and Bathampton Down Quarries (grid reference ST761625) make up a 6.22 hectare (15.37 acre) Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Bath...
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Claverton Down and lies above part of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines Site of Special Scientific Interest, designated because of the Greater and Lesser...
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Bath stone (category Buildings and structures in Bath, Somerset)
Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England. Its honey colouring gives the...
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Bath, Somerset (redirect from Pump Room, Assembly Rooms and Royal Crescent)
used for construction in the city, was obtained from the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines owned by Ralph Allen (1694–1764). Allen, to advertise the...
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Somerset (section Saxon and Norman invasions)
century, but it was used long before then. It was mined underground at Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, and as a result of cutting the Box Tunnel, at locations...
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unified the city, much of it obtained from the limestone Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, which were owned by Ralph Allen (1694–1764). Allen, in order...
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Midford Castle (category Combe Down)
Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines. William Smith, who became known as "Father of English Geology", proposed conveying the stone by a railway down to...
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construction throughout the city, was obtained from the limestone Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, which were owned by Ralph Allen (1694–1764). Allen, in order...
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Greater horseshoe bat (section Ecology and behavior)
Quarries in Wiltshire, and Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines near Bath. In Dorset, the species roosts at Bryanston, Creech Grange and in Belle Vue Quarry...
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Ralph Allen (category Combe Down)
from his postal reforms to acquire the stone quarries at Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines. Hitherto, the quarry masons had always hewn stone roughly...
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Bath Assembly Rooms (category Buildings and structures completed in 1771)
construction throughout the city was obtained from the limestone Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines owned by Ralph Allen (1694–1764). The development at this...
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Prior Park (category Combe Down)
the stone quarries at Combe Down and Bathampton Down. The unique honey-coloured Bath stone was used to build the Georgian city, and as a result he made...
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List of downs (category Mountains and hills of England)
Somerset, England Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bath, Somerset, England Compton Down, hill on the Isle of Wight...
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consists of a complex set of marine deposits primarily mudstone and bioclastic ooidal and fine grained limestone, deposited in nearshore to shelf settings...
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Brown's Folly, near Bathford, and Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, near Bath; and two in Wiltshire, Box Mine and Winsley Mines. These ten areas are all...
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England Chilmark Quarries, England Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, Somerset, England Compton Martin Ochre Mine, Somerset, England Creech Grange,...
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(physician) settles in Bath. 1726 Ralph Allen begins buying up Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines for building stone. James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, buys...
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Community Habitats Directive. Along with Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines this site forms a key part of the Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats candidate Special...
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it was used locally long before then. It was mined underground at Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines, and as a result of cutting the Box Tunnel, at various...
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Incorporates two former SSSIs: Severn Estuary (notified 1976) and part of Brean Down and Uphill Cliff (notified 1952). It was unified as Severn Estuary...
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loading dock, once used for Bath Stone from the quarries on Bathampton Down, which was carried down a straight track to the canal over the Dry Arch rock bridge...
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biodiversity conservation. The list is divided geographically by region and county. Sites are included in this list if they are given any of the following...
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Limestone Link (redirect from Limestone Link (Somerset and Gloucestershire))
and the Kennet and Avon Canal, past Claverton and the Claverton Pumping Station to Bathampton. Here it crosses the A4 and goes through Batheaston and...
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South West England (section Geology and landscape)
and Saxons, for example at the siege of Badon Mons Badonicus (which may have been in the Bath district, perhaps at Solsbury Hill), or Bathampton Down...
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Frome (section Rise and fall of the cloth trade)
Place. The Frome county constituency area included Weston, Radstock, Bathampton, Batheaston as well as freeholders in Bath; there were only 322 registered...
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Trust) Bateswood (Staffordshire Wildlife Trust) Bathampton Meadow (Avon Wildlife Trust) Bawsinch and Duddingston (Scottish Wildlife Trust) Bay Pond (Surrey...
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extended to some 18 miles (29 km) with routes to Combe Down, Oldfield Park, Twerton, Newton St Loe, Weston and Bathford. The Taunton Tramway was opened on...
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