Germoe till last century, when they were broken up for road-metal, and that they consisted of a kind of gritstone common enough to the Crowza.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

The two colossi on the plain of Thebes are, of course, hard gritstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The Kinder Scout plateau is a more or less flat slab of gritstone overlain by a thick layer of peat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference

It is of gritstone, but has been much altered and repaired at later periods, when limestone has been used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

He plodded on, and with diminishing distance and growing light the two shapes resolved into a pair of gritstone tors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference

On a beautiful day in early summer, when this photograph was taken, Kinder Gates is quite clearly a pair of gritstone tors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference

Geographically it is part of the Pennine range and its gritstone fells and sweeping heather moorland are perfect for gentle walks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Accommodation review | The Spread Eagle, Sawley, Lancashire] Reference

More precisely, at the bottom of a twisting channel where an icy stream had carved its way through the peat to the underlying gritstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference

Climbing a steep lane immediately below the long gritstone escarpment of Stanage Edge the other day we had a quite different experience of wayside life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: North Derbyshire] Reference

The rebuilding of the east end in the Decorated period was the first operation in which limestone was employed, but much of the old gritstone has been used again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

A little further on, and it threaded through a jumble of gritstone boulders and plunged over a rocky fall to vanish in a dark hollow scooped out of the plateau side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference

A buzzard cried somewhere beyond Hayes Farm; otherwise there was no sign of animal life in all that windswept country below the crest of the western gritstone uplands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Staffordshire Moorlands] Reference

In these arches the lower order has exactly the same mouldings as in the western bays, and is of gritstone, while the upper order is of limestone, and has fillets upon the larger mouldings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

Up to almost the end of the thirteenth century the builders used a coarse gritstone such as is found five miles to the south-west at Brimham Rocks, and also a finer gritstone or sandstone that may have come from Hackfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

There is something unique about these crests and hollows that are the offspring of the frowning gritstone moors immediately to the east, protecting this fairy tale world of small farms, zigzag hedgerows and the copses now burnished for our delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Diary: East Cheshire Hills] Reference

The arch nearest to the tower has given way slightly and has been blocked up, apparently not very long after it was built, for in the blocking wall is an acutely-pointed and thrice-recessed doorway of decidedly early character, and the material throughout is gritstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

Nevertheless, in an age when every action of life was invested with a religious character, the western part may have been used for capitular purposes even without a dividing wall, and the gritstone benches, so significant of those purposes, are doubtless of considerable age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

Stanage Edge, a vast gritstone escarpment in the National Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Don't blame the traders] Reference

(See the debate over at UKC over the use of pads for gritstone leads.).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Amongst an area of gritstone you will reach a ladder stile over a wire fence.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Here there is the impressive gritstone outcrop that presumably gave the fell its name.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

These generally belong to the hard gritstone of the moors through which Newton Dale has been carved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of an English Town] Reference

It is built in the ornamented parts and internally of Bath stone, the exterior being the gritstone of the neighbourhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account] Reference

Poor old West Yorkshire, tarred by its grim gritstone moors, half grazed, hardly treed and strapped tight to the earth by motorways.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to McCreary: Tips for gardening in winter] Reference

"....threaded through a jumble of gritstone boulders and plunged over a rocky fall to vanish in a dark hollow scooped out of the plateau side".    From Wordnik.com.  [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference

Seven hundred years on, the mighty gritstone cliffs, whose knotted, lumpen faces loom above the main Leek to Buxton road, strike a no less imposing profile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It has four barrel-vaulted cells within its sturdy gritstone structure, into which assorted drunks and criminals were chucked before being released or sent for trial at Derby Assizes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Although for many years past it has been generally preferred to the gritstone of the district, and is commonly met with in the better specimens of stonework on this side the Severn, of which Mr. Telford's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account] Reference

In South Wales, Staffordshire, and elsewhere, there are often found in conjunction the coal, ironstone, limestone flux, as well as the refractory clay and gritstone necessary for the construction of the furnaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coal Question~ Of the Iron Trade] Reference

It was a wonderful world, and the world was the village, its streets of gritstone houses, the people living in them, the comedies and tragedies of their lives and deaths, and burials in the churchyard with grass and flowers to grow over them by-and-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference

Small gritstone-built houses and cottages of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveller in Little Things] Reference

Soil 1 foot. brick-clay 3 feet. shale 4. metal which is hard brown and falls in the weather 42. coal 3. warrant clay 6. brown gritstone 36. coal 31/2. warrant clay 31/2. bass and metal 531/2. hardstone 4. shaly bass 11/2. coal 4. warrant clay, depth unknown. in all about 55 yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference