Entries for the tag ‘Millstone Grit’
Coarse-grained Carboniferous sandstones, once frequently used for millstones in watermills. 
- 8 August 1514: Sir Thomas Wortley’s death inaugurates the memorial he has built for himself at Wharncliffe
- 8 June 1561: A York official explains why textile manufacturing has left his city for the West Riding
- 13 September 1894: J.B. Priestley descends on a cloud to the West Riding of Yorkshire
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