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The village is noted for its granite quarries, which furnished stone for the Duke of Wellington's sarcophagus in St Paul's Cathedral.

Many men found work at nearby pits, including Barlborough on the outskirts of the village.

The rocky cliff faces are scored and pitted by wind and waves, causing sizeable blowing holes and fissures.

Copley had become one of the leading ironmasters in South Yorkshire, thanks to a leasing arrangement with the Earl of Shrewsbury which gave him access to Shrewsbury charcoal woods and coal and ironstone pits

One of its more interesting features is what is thought to be an ancient beheading pit.

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

Not only lime but also some building stone was formerly quarried in the huge Betchworth chalk pit. It had its own narrow gauge railway, which is visible here.

These do not look like young of the pit ponies and nor are they working horses.

As we have seen even the smallest colliery village wherever it may be in the Rhondda Valleys has its own park. This one looks more suited to the youngsters of the area with its swings and slide.

New Pond was dug in the 14th century (Upper Pond is an old brick pit) and was once a popular bathing place. It is now stocked with fish and bathing is prohibited.

The present building was largely the work of the Victorian Colonel Waugh, who developed the island by opening clay pits and potteries in its wildest corners.

These included Unwins print works, a tannery, the gravel pits, and three laundries.

Local pit manager Sir William Garforth, who donated 250 books, opened this Carnegie Library on 29 May 1907.

It also had nearby coal-pits, which sent out some of their produce from the beach here.

Standing in the upper Douglas Valley, Wigan was once a market town, but by the mid 19th century it was a major centre for Lancashire's coal industry.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.

The builder, Wade Brown, was a local quarry owner; woods have now overgrown the local pits and quarries cut into the sides of Bathford Hill.

The lady is looking into one of the numerous prehistoric crop storage pits that had been excavated by the antiquarian C W Dymond a few years previously.

The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known

Coal and limestone were once brought from Wales, and pit props were sent there.

Since its official opening in Coronation year (1953) by Sir Noel Arkell, this area in the centre of the town has been known as Queens Park.

Coppet Hall's name is believed to be derived from 'coal pit haul': before the laying of the railway track in the 1870s, a tramline existed on which coal was hauled on horse-drawn trucks to