Swinton Pottery
Founded in 1745 and renamed the Rockingham Works in 1826, the company produced fine porcelainware until 1842.
Founded in 1745 and renamed the Rockingham Works in 1826, the company produced fine porcelainware until 1842.
Monument commissioned by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the second Marquess of Rockingham in 1783.
Monumental tower in the form of a tapering pyramid topped with a hexagonal lantern, named for the ancient wood in which it was erected.
Sandstones interbedded with mudstones and siltstones in the Lower Coal Measures of West Yorkshire, once extensively quarried.
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Manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling, was an important industry in the Heavy Woollen district of West Yorkshire.
Area of West Yorkshire whose prosperity rested on the manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling.
Major producer of decorated tiles and architectural ceramics in Yorkshire.
Flockton Collieries comprised several pits, some started before 1700, around Flockton and Middlestown between Wakefield and Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Colliery that operated between 1871 and 1966, south of the A642 road east of Grange Moor crossroads.