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ˈragstone [f. rag n.2] 1. = rag n.2 2.1350 in Riley Lond. Mem. (1868) 262, [2 boatloads of] ragston. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 139 Ragstoon & thinges hard..bereth vyneyerdes grete. [1573 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 174 Item for Ramsey stone free and ragge.] 1695 Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth...
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Ragstone (horse)
Ragstone (1970–1978) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Ragstone was trained throughout his racing career by John Dunlop at Arundel, West Sussex.
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Kentish ragstone
Modern uses of Kentish ragstone
Only two ragstone quarries are operational in Kent, Hermitage Quarry in Barming and Blaise Farm near King's Hill. The quarry is within the 'Boughton Group' of the ragstone.
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Rag-stone
Due to its irregular shape, as with flint, ragstone has been set within brick quoins and bands. Spalls, fist-sized irregular chips of ragstone, have been used to surface paths but modern usage of ragstone is as a general construction aggregate, including
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Downswood
Between 1940 and 1970 the area was quarried for ragstone which is still evident from outcrops that appear in Spot Lane Nature Reserve and The Len Valley The easternmost ragstone quarry exhibits a series of cambered blocks, tilted down slope and intervening loess filled gulls.
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Oaken Wood
In 2013, plans to uproot parts or all of Oaken Wood for a ragstone quarry were met with controversy due to its environmental importance (with various different
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Dryhill
Local Nature Reserve
The Dryhill Local Nature Reserve based on an old ragstone quarry at the edge of the village covers some 20 hectares ( ).
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St Mark's Regents Park
Originally designed by Thomas Little, alterations in 1888-90 were made by Arthur Blomfield, it is constructed of Kentish ragstone in the early English
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St Margaret's Church, Collier Street
The building is Grade II listed, built in a 13th century style, set in a ragstone walled churchyard (closed by order in council).
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Nettlestead Place
The two-storey house is built of local ragstone, galletted on the ground floor of the main section and more randomly coursed on the first floor. It is a two-storey structure with a roughly coursed ragstone ground floor and a half-timbered first floor jettied to the west and spanning the roadway
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Holy Trinity Church, Coxheath
The building is mostly constructed of coursed ragstone, and has a slate roof.
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St Peter's Church, Boughton Monchelsea
Building
The church is mostly built of ragstone.
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Boxley Abbey Barn
It is constructed of local ragstone with two storeys and a plan tiled gable roof.
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Offham, Kent
Ragstone
The village's houses are predominantly constructed from ragstone, Kent's most celebrated building stone.
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Church of St Rumwold, Bonnington
Built of Kentish ragstone, it is a Grade I listed building.
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