How did Wittering’s geological features make quarrying a possibility, and what made Wittering stone worth quarrying in the first place?
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Nearby settlements such as Collyweston, Ketton and Barnack are historically renowned for the quality of their limestone. Though not as acclaimed, there does appear to be a history of limestone quarrying in Wittering. What does this evidence entail, and what can be pieced together from it?
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I recently bought a subscription to the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) – a project run in partnership by the British Library and findmypast. The archive’s aim is to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages in the British Library’s archives over a ten-year period.
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Hello, and welcome to the Wittering History blog. I’ll be using the blog as the main way to convey information on this website for the foreseeable. Once my research has crystallised I expect to start making permanent, tailor-made pages which cover subjects in a more refined form.
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