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 This Georgian tidemill stood east of Newhaven in East Sussex very close to the coast.

Codford, one of its most prominent citizens, James Raxworthy were at the centre of the Captain Swing riots in Wiltshire.

Until unified as a single shop in the 20th century, these properties were quite distinct.

Hilton, Anderson and Company set up a new lime works at Halling in 1873 and their cement works there called Halling Manor dates from 1878.

At the height of production at the end of the nineteenth century, some seventeen cement factories were working on the banks of the Medway between F

Snodland papermill was in existence long before the Hook family purchased the business in 1854.

Wouldham Hall Cement Works

Burham works were established around 1850 by Thomas Cubitt, the Victorian master builder.

New Tunstall (now Silksworth) is the village serving Londonderry's Silksworth colliery, which opened in 1873. 

At the opening of the 18th century, Southwick appeared little altered from the middle ages.

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