Hopton woodn.
/ˈhɒptən ˈwʊd/ Used attributively and absol. to designate a pale brownish- or greyish-white carboniferous limestone used for building and decorative purposes.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > types of limestone for building
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others
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1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 419 List of..Building-Stone Quarries, or Delphs... Hopton-Wood, in Middleton by Wirksworth.]
1888 G. H. Blagrove Marble Decoration 86 Hopton Wood. This stone deserves to rank as a marble, for it will take an excellent polish.
1911 J. Watson Brit. & Foreign Building Stones 117 Hopton Wood Stone has been employed for constructing many important buildings, including the Guildhall (1789), and the Imperial Institute (1881), in London.
1962 Times 3 Aug. 7/1 Any opaque stone—sandstone, bath, hoptonwood, basalt.
1967 G. Sims Last Best Friend vii. 62 A fine example of lapidary art..cut on a panel of Hopton-Wood stone.
1973 Times 14 May 14/8 Later he began to experiment with native stones, such as Hopton Wood and Ancaster.
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