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Horsham Stone
Horsham Stone is a type of calcareous, flaggy sandstone containing millions of minute sand grains and occurring naturally in the Weald Clay of south-east England. It is also high in mica and quartz. The rock extends in an arc-like formation for several kilometres around the town of Horsham from which it takes its name, and lies just below the Weald Clay surface in bands thick. Horsham Stone is significant for its ripple-marked appearance, formed by the action of the sea similar to the ripples on the sandbanks and beaches of Sussex. Formation Sussex Stone and its limestone equivalent Sussex Marble were formed around 130 million years ago in the Lower Cretaceous period when Britain was quite different from the shape it is today. It is estimated that the latitude for Britain was approximately 30th parallel north, 30 degrees north of the equator. The fossil evidence in Horsham Stone and Sussex Marble indicate a diversity of life living on a broad, flat subtropical landscape. Towards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar, because they are the most resistant minerals to the weathering processes at the Earth's surface. Like uncemented sand, sandstone may be imparted any color by impurities within the minerals, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white, and black. Because sandstone beds can form highly visible cliffs and other topography, topographic features, certain colors of sandstone have become strongly identified with certain regions, such as the red rock deserts of Arches National Park and other areas of the Southwestern United States, American Southwest. Rock formations composed of sandstone usually allow the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bignor Roman Villa
Bignor Roman Villa is a large Roman villa, Roman courtyard villa which has been excavated and put on public display on the Bignor estate in the England, English county of West Sussex. It is well known for its high quality mosaic floors, which are some of the most complete and intricate in the country. It is managed by the Bignor Roman Villa Charitable Trust, a Charitable organization, registered charity. Location The villa is situated just north of the South Downs close to Stane Street (Chichester), Stane Street, about nine miles northeast of Chichester (the Roman city of ''Noviomagus Reginorum'') and the nearby and much larger Fishbourne Roman Palace.Bignor Roman Villa 16 March 2005 It is on the south-facing slope of a ridge of greensand (geology), greensand which provided better condition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandstone In The United Kingdom
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar, because they are the most resistant minerals to the weathering processes at the Earth's surface. Like uncemented sand, sandstone may be imparted any color by impurities within the minerals, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white, and black. Because sandstone beds can form highly visible cliffs and other topography, topographic features, certain colors of sandstone have become strongly identified with certain regions, such as the red rock deserts of Arches National Park and other areas of the Southwestern United States, American Southwest. Rock formations composed of sandstone usually allow the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sandstones
This is a list of types of sandstone that have been or are used economically as natural stone for building and other commercial or artistic purposes. Trans-regional (across state borders) *''Cornbrash Sandstone'': North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony *''Elbe Sandstone'': Germany (Saxony) and the Czech Republic *''Red Main Sandstone'': Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria *''Wealden Sandstone'': Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia Australia * ''Hawkesbury Sandstone'': Sydney Basin, Gosford * ''Helidon Sandstone'': Helidon, Queensland, Helidon and Murphys Creek, Queensland, Murphys Creek Belgium * ''Balegem Sandstone'': Balegem in Oosterzele * ''Ledian Sandstone'': Lede, Belgium, Lede * ''Gobertange Sandstone'': Gobertange in Jodoigne Canada * Potsdam Sandstone, Nepean Sandstone: Ottawa, Ontario * Paskapoo Formation, Paskapoo Sandstone: Calgary, Alberta Czech Republic * ''Božanov Sandstone'': near Božanov * Dolní Žleb#Sandstone quarrying, ''Niedergrund Sandstone'': ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purbeck Stone
Purbeck stone refers to building stone taken from a series of limestone beds found in the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Group, found on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset in southern England. The best known variety of this stone is Purbeck Marble. The stone has been quarried since at least Roman times up to the present day. Geology The Purbeck Group is a sequence of sedimentary rocks that were deposited in a shallow freshwater to brackish lagoonal setting. It ranges in age from Tithonian to Berriasian. Limestone beds are developed at various levels throughout the sequence, each with a different character, which led to them being quarried for specific uses. Towards the top of the Lulworth Formation is the 'New Vein'. In the lower part of the Durlston Formation are the 'Downs vein, 'Freestone Vein' and the 'Laning Vein'. Towards the top of the Durlston are the 'Burr' (or Broken Shell Limestone) with up to three beds of the 'Purbeck Marble' above that. Occurrence The Purbeck G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottage In Nuthurst Village, West Sussex England 2
A cottage, during Feudalism in England, England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or ''bordar'') of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord.Daniel D. McGarry, ''Medieval history and civilization'' (1976) p 242 However, in time cottage just became the general term for a small house. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location and not necessarily in England. The cottage orné, often quite large and grand residences built by the nobility, dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement. In British English the term now denotes a small, cosy dwelling of traditional build, although it can also be applied to modern construction designed to resemble traditional houses (" mock cottages"). Cottages ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwater
Southwater is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, with a population of roughly 10,000. It is administered within Horsham District Council and West Sussex County Council. History One of the oldest buildings in the parish is Great House Farmhouse, a listed building at Grade II* built in 1462 from a late medieval structure in the Tudor period just west of the town. In the early 19th century Southwater was predominately a collection of large estates divided into leased farms. Whilst mixed agriculture provided a lucrative industry for centuries, much of the population of Southwater originated from the workforce of the brick industry and the arrival of the railway, which opened in 1866. At the peak of production, the Southwater brickworks manufactured 18 million bricks a year, and employed 100 men. It was reported that Southwater bricks were used in the building of Christ’s Hospital, Victoria Station, RAAF Woomera Range Complex, Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuthurst
Nuthurst is a village and civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham district of West Sussex, England. The north of the parish borders Horsham town, with Nuthurst village south from the border. Within the parish is the estate and largely 19th-century country house of Sedgwick Park. History Nuthurst does not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086. According to ''A Dictionary of British Place Names'', the place is recorded in 1228 as 'Nothurst', meaning "wooded hill where nut-trees grow", from the Old English ''hnutu'' + ''hyrst''. Nuthurst manor, and later parish, since before the Norman Conquest of England has been part of the Singlegross Hundred (county subdivision), Hundred of the Rape of Bramber. In 1855 the parish was of . The 1841 population was listed as 768; the 1851 population as 727. Nuthurst occupations in 1855 included 21 farmers, one of whom was a grocer at Mannings Heath, a charcoal burner, a carpenter, a blacksmith, a shoemaker, a baker, a shopkeeper who held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St George's Church, West Grinstead
St George's Church is an Anglican church in West Grinstead, West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester, occupying a rural position in the Sussex Weald by the River Adur. The oldest extant part of church dates from the early 11th century with additions in the 12th and 13th centuries. A south chapel was added in the 14th century. The church contains a number of brasses and monuments that are of national importance and retains a number of features from its pre-reformation history. The chancel has some stained glass dating to the 14th century. It is the Parish church of West Grinstead with the mission shared with St. Michael and All Angels in Partridge Green. St George's is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building. Early history The parish church of St George, West Grinstead in West Sussex, England stands at the northerly head of the western River Adur navigation near to Bines Bridge the highest point of the tidal reach and abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itchingfield
Itchingfield is a small village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Barns Green to Broadbridge Heath road southwest of Horsham Horsham () is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby to .... The main settlement in the parish is Barns Green. The village's origins may lie with the Romans. This is suggested by the discovery of tiles in the parish. Gallery File:Itchingfield Church print.jpg, St. Nicolas c. 1830 File:St. Nicolas, Itchingfield.jpg, St. Nicolas 2017 File:Itchingfield Church interior - geograph.org.uk - 1588319.jpg, St. Nicolas Interior File:Itchingfield School - geograph.org.uk - 1071438.jpg, Itchingfield School References External links Horsham District Villages in West Sussex {{WestSussex-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipley, West Sussex
Shipley is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the A272 road north-east of Storrington. The parish includes the village of Coolham and the hamlets of Dragon's Green, Brooks Green and Broomer's Corner. History Shipley is first mentioned in a charter of 1073 as ''Scapeleia'', and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Sepelei''. The name derives from the Old English ''scēap'' ('sheep') and ''lēah'' ('open ground, such as meadow, pasture, or arable land'). Thus it means 'sheep-clearing' or 'sheep-pasture'. Shipley was home to Hilaire Belloc who in 1906 purchased Kings Land, with a house, and Shipley Windmill, which was used in the television series ''Jonathan Creek'' as Creek's residence. Geography The western River Adur flows through the village, where it meets a significant tributary, Lancing Brook. The parish has a land area of . Knepp Wildland is a rewilding project in the parish. Demography In the 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's Church, Shipley
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglicanism, Anglican church in the village of Shipley, West Sussex, Shipley, in West Sussex, England. It is in the Diocese of Chichester. Built in the mid 12th century by the Knights Templar, it is a Grade I listed building. Early history There was a church here by around 1080, but no details are known. Philip de Harcourt, Dean of Lincoln, granted the church about 1139 to the Knights Templar; it was one of their earliest endowments in England. The present building, one of the earliest Templar buildings in England, dates from about this time.A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
