Geography (344 pages found in this category)


Fairbottom Bobs

Fairbottom Bobs, an 18th-century Newcomen-type beam engine, was used to pump water from a coal pit near Ashton-under-Lyne, is probably the world’s second-oldest surviving steam engine.

Ferry Bridge

Historically important crossing over the River Aire in North Yorkshire, designed by John Carr.

Fletcher, Burrows & Company

Owner of collieries and cotton mills in Atherton in North West England.

Flockton

Rural village stretched out along the Barnsley to Huddersfield road in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, taking its name from a Viking settler.

Flockton Collieries

Flockton Collieries comprised several pits, some started before 1700, around Flockton and Middlestown between Wakefield and Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Fogou

Underground passage or tunnel constructed in the Iron Age by digging trenches and lining the sides with drystone walling.

Forglen House

Mansion house that forms the centrepiece of the Forglen estate in the parish of Forglen, northwest of Turriff, Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland.

Free Trade Hall

Public hall constructed in 1853–1856 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre, now a Radisson hotel.

Garrett Hall

Former manor house and now a Grade II listed farmhouse in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England.

Gin Pit Colliery

Colliery that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley Lancashire, England.