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A bleachfield or bleaching green was an open area used for spreading cloth on the ground to be purified and whitened by the action of the sunlight. [1] Bleaching fields were usually found in and around mill towns in Great Britain and were an integral part of textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution .
Bleaching (by chemicals under cover, not with bleach fields) continued Huntingtower until 1981. Huntingtower Castle , a once formidable structure, was the scene of the Raid of Ruthven (pron. Rivven), when the Protestant lords, headed by William, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie (c.1541–1584), kidnapped the boy-king James VI , on 22 ...
Parts of the ruined chapter house remained visible until the 20th century, but the last traces of the building were removed in 1926. [3] In the first half of the 19th century, the village of Whiteabbey was home to a large bleach works, and was an important landing site for coal shipments bound for Belfast.
The abbey was founded by King Cnut's thegn Orc and his wife Tola, who handsomely endowed the monastery with lands in the area. Dedicated to Saint Peter, it was a Benedictine monastery. The abbey prospered and became a local centre of power, controlling eight manor houses and villages. Christchurch Castle & Norman House Castle: 1160 (Both)
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
The village contained a church, a manor house, a village green, and the sub-manor of John of Elton, a rich farmer who cultivated one hide of land and had tenants of his own. The tenants' houses lined a road rather than being grouped in a cluster. Some of the village houses were fairly large, 50 feet (15 m) long by 14 feet (4.3 m) wide.
Charles Tennant's Darnley Bleach Fields c. 1800. He acquired bleaching fields in 1788, at Darnley, in Glasgow, and turned his mind and energy to developing ways to shorten the time required in bleaching. Others had already managed to reduce bleaching time from eighteen months to four by replacing sour milk with sulfuric acid.
Longdendale is a valley, part of which is in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. In the valley are the villages of Broadbottom, Hattersley, Hollingworth and Mottram in Longdendale. These villages and the surrounding countryside contain 56 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed ...