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noted for limestone and lime kilns, which furnisheth all the 

 country round about us with lime for land and building. 



There are likewise in this parish fourteen rocks of gritstone, 

 very useful for building houses and walls withal, which lie 

 very conveniently for all the inhabitants of the parish. There 

 are eight rocks of limestone which make good lime to 

 build houses with, and likewise to manure the land. There 

 aie two of these rocks out of which they may cut very 

 good marble for chimneypieces, so artificially wrought by 

 nature as no polite art can equal it ; the one is in Lexley, 

 and the other at the Fall Mill. Ashover quarry is of grit- 

 stone, where grindlestones are got. There is another quarry 

 where they get that excellent stone for smilting mills, that 

 will abide the fire. It is obtained from Peasonhurst. 



There is a Delfe (or pitt) where men get abundance of 

 scythe sand, and send it abroad into other countries for the 

 use of husbandmen ; but the quarry for grindlestones is far 

 beyond it in bringing profit to the lords of the parish, and 

 they are of special use to all who make scythes, hooks, and 

 all kinds of hardware, as they do at Sheffield, which is about 

 twelve miles from this towne. 



There is, moreover, belonging to this parish, a pleasant 

 freshwater river, over which there are several good stone 

 bridges, viz., (1) Amber Bridge, (2) Flax Croft Bridge, (3) 

 Old Mill Bridge, (4) Dog Holme Bridge, (5) Fall Yate 

 Bridge or Fenn Bridge, (6) Hunt Bridge, (7) Dale Bridge. 



There are also upon this river three smilting mills and 

 three come milns, all in this parish. In former times there 

 were more smilting milns, called windmilns, one at Amber 

 Lane Head, the second on Ashover Hill Top, the third on 

 the top of the Hay, and the fourth on Windmill Hill, 

 between Butterley and Doho Lane, not far off a parish mark 

 called " Crowder Stone," which is near a house called Cold 

 Harbour. This river of Amber carries its name above ten 

 miles. There are also three great highways through this 

 parish — one by Bunting Field Nook, which goes betwixt 



