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The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

The prosperous Georgian feel of the town originates with the presence of the castle and with its role as a market town and agricultural centre.

Also in that period massive pits surrounded Altofts, and the Church of St Mary Magdalene (1890) has a window memorial to the 32 men and boys (and 53 horses) killed in the explosion at the West Riding

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

It stands further east and closer to Cheam village than the original palace.

Burials were forbidden within the town, and a plague pit was opened at the southern end of Millgate near the bridge over the Devon.

The small village based around the manor of Rossington was enlarged to its west side once coal reserves had been found.

Runcorn was also a coal port, handling traffic from Lancashire and Staffordshire pits.

Cudworth was never a pit village, although it is surrounded by collieries at Monk Bretton (opened in 1870), Carlton (1879), Grimethorpe (1897), Frickley (1905) and Ferrymoor (1917).

Bilston had a lock-making industry of sorts in the 16th century but it remained fairly static; along with Pontypool, Bilston was an early centre for japanning—the copying of Japanese goods by English

After the Great War, it was used as a sanatorium for TB sufferers; it closed in the 1970s, when it was converted to private residences.

Dartmoor was plundered for its mineral wealth. In the south, huge pits were dug for china clay, an industry that continues today, and all over the moor granite was quarried for building stone.

Kippax Colliery near Owl Wood flourished between 1858 and 1904, but it was the nearby pits of Allerton Bywater (1875-1992) and Ledston Luck (1909-1987) that transformed the village into the town

Epsom Downs with its close-cropped turf and easy access from London was the place for it.

This pitted Protestants against Catholics, Parliamentarians against Royalists.

Poyer and Laugharne capitulated, but not before the traitor was caught and poetically buried in the water pit.

If we return briefly to the beginning of the 19th century, Sutton again made history when the body of Mary Ashford, aged 20, was found brutally murdered - drowned in a marl-pit in Penns Lane.

As Reading expanded south, St Giles', decaying and small, proved unable to cope, and Christchurch was built in 1861-2. It

Beyond, a timber structure can be seen in the front garden of No 1. It was for many years the village post office.

There was already the beginnings of a route in one very old narrow street, but all signs of Hercules Street were to disappear, along with its 40 fleshers and their killing yards.