How To Use Gritstone In A Sentence
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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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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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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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The path leads straight to the sombre gritstone memorial on the edge of the moorland spur.
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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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Five years ago, he formed a company to buy the complex of gritstone buildings dating from 1790.
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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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One or two gritstone quarries provide important nesting sites for peregrines and ravens.
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The immediate terrain is straightforward - large sheep pastures with gritstone walls.
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The greyish green gritstone had undergone the action of deep-seated reducing heat fluid during its rock-forming process.
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The gritstone façade towered over me, three storeys high with narrow windows and a roof made of split sandstone tiles.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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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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This airy but demanding ridge walk is mainly in Cheshire, following the gritstone ridge with some excellent views.
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He might have been an outsider at school, a short lad who learnt to fight to escape bullying, but gritstone became the arena where he could prove himself to be ahead of the pack.
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Arrowfield was named after the adjoining Devil's Arrows - three gritstone monoliths thought to date from the Bronze Age.
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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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Our finest gritstone architecture is being devoured by road salt.
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Tough layers of sandstone and gritstone cap the hills and moors.
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Not all rock is the same, and gritstone is like no other.
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By now we had reached 1,300 foot and had one last steep slope to climb, for which there's a diagonal sunken path leading up to bilberrys, they indicate acid soil and here that's because of a cap layer of gritstone rock.
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Work has involved replacing the original limestone steps with gritstone that will be less slippery.
