1 Harbury Lime Works is marked on the 6″ Ordnance Survey map of 1886. A quarry and two tramways are also marked on the map at the Limeworks.
2 On ...
Harbury Lime Works which was in operation during the Imperial period is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. On the 1905 Ordnance Survey map it is called Greave's Works. It was located north of Bishops Itchington.
1 Originally owned by a firm called ?Alloy Bricks. The kilns were originally coal-fired, the coal coming by canal; c1963 they installed oil-fired German machinery including a linear kiln and ...
The site of Napton Brickworks which are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. They date from the Imperial period through to Modern times, closing down in the 1970s. They were located between the Oxford Canal and the Napton Windmill.
1 The Napton Brick and Tile Works lies adjacent to the canal here. There is no obvious wharf but a winding hole to the N.
The possible site of a canal wharf to serve the nearby brickworks which was in use during the Imperial period. It was located 500m northwest of Napton Windmill.
1 On the 1903 OS 25″ the bridge here is marked ‘Coton old wharf bridge’.
2 The bridge is date-marked 1925. To the E of the bridge is a wide section ...
Coton Old Wharf. Documentary evidence suggests the site of a canal wharf, where vessels loaded and unloaded goods, situated to the east of Coventry Road, Chilvers Coton.
1 In 1834 lime works existed between the canal near Bascote Toll House and Snowford Hill Farm. By 1899 the limeworks had disappeared, but a tramroad is marked (PRN 5233).
The site of Bascote Lime Works, a quarry which was in use during the Imperial period. The quarry had ceased by 1899 but the line of a tramway is still visible. It is located 500m north west of Bascote Bridge.
1 Limeworks are shown opposite the Cuttle on the 1834 map. These were no longer shown in 1899, but the tramroad is shown (PRN 5234). White’s Directory of 1874 refers ...
Cuttle Lime Works, where lime was made in the Imperial period, and which are shown on a map of 1834. An associated tramway is shown on a later map of 1899. The limeworks were located south of Cuttle Bridge.
1 The Earlswood lakes are a most impressive series of reservoirs constructed to serve the Stratford Canal. A tall brick engine house survives, built to house a beam pumping ...
Earlswood Lakes, a series of canal reservoirs, created in the Imperial period to serve the Stratford upon Avon canal. A pumping station survives, but the engine has been removed from the building.
1 2 The ironstone quarry at Burton Dassett is shown on the first and second edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1886.
3 At Burton Dassett the hills were quarried for ...
The site of ironstone workings and a mineral railway at Burton Dassett Hills. Extraction was for both the stone and the iron ore. Extraction began around 1868 and continued intermittently until the 1920s.
1 Site of Birch Coppice colliery railway marked on OS map of 1885.
The site of Birch Coppice colliery railway, dating to the Imperial period, is marked on the OS map of 1885.