Geography (345 pages found in this category)


Swinton Pottery

Founded in 1745 and renamed the Rockingham Works in 1826, the company produced fine porcelainware until 1842.

Tammy Hall

Former piece or cloth hall, a specialist market for selling worsted cloth. Paid for by subscription, the hall opened in 1778.

Tankersley ironstone bed

Named from its outcrop at Tankersley near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.

The Great Stone, Stretford

Grade II listed structure in Stretford, Greater Manchester, probably the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross shaft.

The Hooper

Mysterious cloud of mist that often hovered over the Cowloe Rock, near Sennen Cove in Cornwall, warning of approaching bad weather.

The Walking Horse locomotive

Lancashire’s first steam locomotive, built by Robert Daglish in 1812 at the Haigh Foundry for colliery owner, John Clarke; it entered service the following year.

Thomas Tyldesley

Supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War.

Thornhill

Former township now a suburb of Dewsbury in Kirkless, West Yorkshire.

Thornhill Colliery

Former colliery in the West Riding of Yorkshire, worked from the 16th century until 1972.

Tickle Cock Bridge

Pedestrian underpass in Castleford, England, under a railway line originally built by the York and North Midland Railway between York and Normanton.