The open-plan living room, with its heated limestone floor, green-oak beams and stainless steel tie-beams, opens on to a patio and ornamental pond.

They tore their clothes on sawgrass, ruined their boots on the uneven limestone floor, and were plagued by mosquitoes.

Each has a thatched gable roof, limestone floors, three en suite bedrooms and a swimming pool set in the hardwood deck.

You can see why the location scouts picked it: set in about 16 acres, the property has 22ft stainless-steel ceilings and limestone floors.

The bathrooms are spacious, with limestone floors and one mirrored wall.

Chalk downs and limestone hills cannot make any money from sheep-grazing, so have been abandoned to scrub invasion.

The road beneath our wheels begins to climb sharply, leaving behind grass-filled valleys, tiny villages and stone barns and giving way to bracken-capped limestone hills.

Visit tobacco farms to see leaves drying in the sun, explore nearby cave systems in the limestone hills or take horse-riding tours.

It has more than 70 listed buildings dotted among the limestone hills.

The limestone hills which form the almost treeless plateau are generally steep but fertile.

I wonder if those rules will remain when he swaps signing our banknotes for fulfilling his dream of running a limestone quarry up north?

He did years of hard labour in a limestone quarry.

We went to the top of a 19thcentury limestone quarry and the views of the ocean and mountain were breathtaking.

It sits right next to the limestone quarry which supplied it.

These houses, some of which housed quarry workers, lie close to a 20th-century limestone quarry nearby, now abandoned and filled with water.

It was prepared out of a limestone slab to reveal details on the left side of the skeleton, many of which are better preserved.

The name was derived from the 60 ft natural limestone slab bridge that spans the amphitheater setting of the cavern's entrance.

A single limestone slab - tilted at 6.1 - crowns the chamber.

Floors were dug out to a depth of 3ft, underfloor heating added and limestone slabs or oak boards fitted.

This was topped with 50 ton limestone slabs forming a pointed roof.

A formidable flora lives on the city's limestone soil.

The limestone soil has low nutrient levels; hence smaller species of wild flowers and grasses are able to grow in the absence of larger species.

It prefers semi-arid limestone soils in areas free of frost the year round.

The species grows in rocky areas on limestone soils.

It grows in sunny locations in grasslands, on the edges of pinyon-juniper woodlands, on sandy or limestone soils.

The limestone wall surface has punched window openings of horizontal bands and small squares.

It consisted of a 7.5 m dry limestone wall.

Originally the tower was surrounded by a limestone wall and outbuildings, forming a courtyard.

The east end wall has a steam heat sign painted on the limestone wall.

The southern elevation features a 4 ft limestone wall topped with two rows of limestone blocks.