Purbeck Ball Clay information

Purbeck Ball Clay is a concentration of ball clay found on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. The main concentration of ball clay in...

with Thomas Hyde of Purbeck, enabling the production of thinner-walled ceramics. Ball clay and the Stover Canal Purbeck Ball Clay 'Ceramic Raw Materials'...

most ball clay was dispatched by rail, often to the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Quarrying still takes place on Purbeck, with both Purbeck Ball Clay...

stone and Purbeck limestone have both been quarried for centuries to provide construction material for buildings around the world. Purbeck ball clay is quarried...

Dorset Purbeck stone Purbeck Marble, a stone found on the Isle of Purbeck Purbeck Ball Clay, a ball clay found on the Isle of Purbeck Purbeck Group, a...

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on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It was built by the Pike Brothers, to take Purbeck Ball Clay from their clay pits near Furzebrook...

of at least 46 metres (151 ft) below current Ordnance Datum. The Purbeck Ball Clay contains kaolinite and mica, showing that in the Lutetian stage of...

Thomas Byerley - Josiah Wedgwood's nephew. It was intended to take Purbeck Ball Clay from his pits near Corfe Castle to a wharf on Middlebere Creek in...

The Purbeck Mining Museum exists to preserve and interpret the historic extractive industries in ball clay mining in the Isle of Purbeck. The museum is...

known for the Purbeck Marble that was mined locally and shipped out by sea. The presence of this industry, together with the Purbeck Ball Clay works in the...

century, the area around Corfe Castle was known for its supply of Purbeck Ball Clay, which at that time was shipped by a pair of horse-drawn tramways...

steam locomotive (Primus) to Purbeck in 1866 - The Pike Brothers - John William and William Joseph Pike (Purbeck Ball Clay Merchants). They are buried...

connections) to Swanage. The Isle of Purbeck had extensive quarrying and ball clay activities before Victorian times; some of the clay was processed locally, but...

overlying Lower Purbeck. The Purbeck Limestone Group is a succession of limestones, shales, and clays named after the Isle of Purbeck, laid down in the...

coastal cliffs east of Weymouth and, further east, the steep ridge of the Purbeck Hills. This southerly strip of the visible chalk (sometimes referred to...

stained glass and decorated floor tiles. There was also a portable altar of Purbeck Marble; it is likely that the Monastery of St Michael on the Tor was a...

across the Upper Jurassic Clay Vale. In the Midlands, the clay plain surrounding the River Severn was heavily wooded. Clay soils in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire...

business (Oliver Lodge & Son) as an agent for B. Fayle & Co selling Purbeck blue clay to the pottery manufacturers. This work sometimes entailed him travelling...

280 Primrose Hill Fault E&W 109 Princethorpe Fault Warwickshire E&W 184 Purbeck Fault Dorset E&W 342/3 Mem E&W 328etc, GA Guide 22 Putnam Fault Cumbria...

famously Salisbury Plain, but also Cranborne Chase, the Dorset Downs and the Purbeck Hills. These downs are the principal area of arable agriculture in the...

demolished Old Minster, Caen stone from Normandy, ashlar, Beer stone and Purbeck Marble. The cathedral is 558 feet (170 m) long, and the vaulting has a...

whole church was subject to a major restoration in 1868. The font, of Purbeck Marble, is early medieval but its carvings are nearly obliterated. The...