Geography (345 pages found in this category)


Huskar Pit Disaster

Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream.

Inchcape

Reef about eleven miles (18 km) off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, near Dundee and Fife, occupied by the Bell Rock Lighthouse.

Inchdrewer Castle

16th-century tower house in the parish of Banff, Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland.

Irlam

Built-up area in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, lying on flat ground on the south side of the M62 motorway and the north bank of the Manchester Ship Canal.

Irwell Valley Fault

Redirected to Pendleton Fault.

Jervaulx Abbey

Ruined Cistercian monastery and scheduled monument about one and a half miles (2.4 km) east of East Witton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.

John Blenkinsop

Mining engineer at Charles Brandling’s Middleton Collieries who patented a rack and pinion system for a steam locomotive and commissioned the first practical railway locomotive from Fenton, Murray and Wood’s Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds in 1811.

Jonathan Simpson

Architect who was born, educated and practised in Bolton.

Karst cave

The most common type of cave, formed by the solution of carboniferous rocks by the action of rainwater.

Kaye’s Mineral Line

Standard gauge mineral line built to serve the pits owned by the Lister Kayes of Denby Grange in West Yorkshire.