A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
ORESTON, a village in Plymstock parish, Devon; on Plymouth sound, 2 miles S S E of Plymouth. It is a large place; had a battery of the royalists in the civilwars of Charles I.; and has now a post-office under Plymouth, ship-building yards, and Independent and Wesleyan chapels. Quarries adjacent to it furnished all thelimestone employed in the construction of Plymouthbreakwater; and they now exhibit a remarkable extent of ground, shivered into broken cliffs and cumbrousdebris. Many bones of hyenas, elephants, rhinoceroses, wolves, deer, and other animals of warmer climates thanthat of England, were found in fissures during the progress of quarrying; and the animals are supposed to havefallen into cracks of the rocks, and to have, in course oftime, become inhumed by dis integrations from the sides of the cracks, and by driftings of soil from above.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Plymstock AP/CP Devon AncC |
| Place: | Oreston |
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