| Work has involved replacing the original limestone steps with gritstone that will be less slippery. |
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| This airy but demanding ridge walk is mainly in Cheshire, following the gritstone ridge with some excellent views. |
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| There is a condition restricting the output of gritstone from the Old Hutton quarry each day to 400 tonnes. |
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| The War Memorial Obelisk stands about 20 foot high on an outcrop of gritstone and is brilliantly situated. |
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| The path leads straight to the sombre gritstone memorial on the edge of the moorland spur. |
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| What we didn't expect was to find the thing perched on a weather-sculpted and bus-sized block of gritstone. |
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| One or two gritstone quarries provide important nesting sites for peregrines and ravens. |
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| At present Lafarge is due to cease operation at the site in two years, but it is asking for additional time to extract the 1.5 million tonnes of unworked gritstone reserves. |
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| Tough layers of sandstone and gritstone cap the hills and moors. |
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| Our finest gritstone architecture is being devoured by road salt. |
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| We passed the Flying Dutchman, chugged up the lane out of town and on to a bridleway, a nice route of beech and oak and large mossy boulders of gritstone. |
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| They were to be created from local limestone, sandstone and gritstone and each cairn was to feature a spiral design of dry stone walls emanating outwards. |
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| Walls will be crafted in Yorkshire gritstone and there will be wildflower meadows, a bridge, lockkeeper's cottage, fisherman, and even dirty water in the stretch of canal. |
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| It lies on the River Kinder, where it flows west over one of the gritstone cliffs on the plateau edge. |
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| Settlements built from local gritstone occupy river valleys with wooded sides. |
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| The geology of the area is layers of gritstone, coal and glacial deposits of sand and gravel. |
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| Textile mills and chimneys and gritstone terraced houses are the dominant buildings and roads are concentrated in the narrow valley. |
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| Most moorland and gritstone escarpments are in the Dark Peak and most settlements, farmland and limestone gorges are in the White Peak. |
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| The great expanses of moorland around Bleaklow and Black Hill and fringed with broken outcrops of gritstone are characteristic of the area. |
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| In neighbouring limestone areas, gritstone has often been preferred in the past for use as gateposts and lintels. |
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| The gritstone edges of West Yorkshire and the Peak District provide one of the classic areas in Britain for rock climbing. |
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| Natural landmarks include such diverse sites as the gritstone outcrop of Otley Chevin and the Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve. |
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| The stones we are planning to use are mainly salvaged from the old textile mills and are made of the typical gritstone that we find on the moors. |
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| Outram thought that the hill through which the tunnel was to be cut was composed of gritstone and strong shale and should not present any difficulties. |
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| It was built using facing stones of local limestone and gritstone. |
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| He made a bathroom of gritstone and ceramic tile, he even had a sink with faucets, a boiler for hot water, and I lent a few barrows of gravel to him to build a septic tank. |
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| In earlier times, probably up to the mid 19th century, the Millstone Grit, or gritstone, which forms the flat top of the fell, was used for making millstones. |
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| High gritstone moorland extends into the South Pennines to the north. |
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| The South West Peak contains some gritstone edges and moorland similar to the Dark Peak but the landscape has farmland and pastured valleys similar to the White Peak. |
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| The gritstone and shale of the Dark Peak supports heather moorland and blanket bog environments, with rough sheep pasture and grouse shooting being the main land uses. |
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| The rural landscape varies from arable farmland in the flat lands to the south of Derby, to upland pasture and moorland in the high gritstone uplands of the southern Pennines. |
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| There are also strata of shale and gritstone that surface on the fell. |
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| Castleton is situated between the gritstone plateau of the Dark Peak to the north and the gentler limestone scenery of the White Peak to the south. |
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| Crushed gritstone is also used as aggregate in path and road construction. |
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| The gritstone landscape of the South West Peak also supports moorland environments although the landscape supports both farming and grouse shooting. |
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| Hanagan struck on Richard Fahey's Gritstone in the Breeders' Cup Live ATR Virgin 534 Handicap. |
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| The jockey started the day with an advantage of four but that became seven, with victories on Mayson, Gritstone and Dubawi King. |
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| Along the valley sides can be seen the typical Dales geology of Yoredale beds, alternating strata of Limestone and Gritstone. |
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| They comprise the Carboniferous Limestone, the overlying Gritstone and finally the Coal Measures, though the latter occur only on the extreme margins of the area. |
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