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- ABATTOIR — A building where animals are slaughtered.
Search the NHLE for: ABATTOIR - ABBEY — A religious house governed by an abbot or abbess. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, MONASTERY or NUNNERY.
Search the NHLE for: ABBEY - ABBOTS PALACE — The official residence of an abbot.
Search the NHLE for: ABBOTS PALACE - ABBOTS SUMMER PALACE — An official residence of an abbot during the summer months.
Search the NHLE for: ABBOTS SUMMER PALACE - ABLUTIONS BLOCK — A building housing washing facilities and toilets. The term occurs mainly in a military context.
Search the NHLE for: ABLUTIONS BLOCK - ABRASIVES MANUFACTURING SITE — A place where abrasive mediums such as sand-paper and grinding wheels are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: ABRASIVES MANUFACTURING SITE - ACADEMY SCHOOL — A school that is directly funded by central government (specifically, the Department for Education) and independent of direct control by local government in England.
Search the NHLE for: ACADEMY SCHOOL - ACCESS BARRIER — Purpose-built structure, other than a bollard, to prevent vehicle or pedestrian access to a road or site, for example concrete blocks to obstruct vehicles accessing beaches on the north-east coast for illegal sea-coaling.
Search the NHLE for: ACCESS BARRIER - ACCIDENT HOSPITAL — A hospital which primarily cares for patients injured in accidents.
Search the NHLE for: ACCIDENT HOSPITAL - ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE — A bridge, often over a canal or road, allowing access between two parcels of land.
Search the NHLE for: ACCOMMODATION BRIDGE - ACCOMMODATION HUT — A hut used for the accommodation of members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: ACCOMMODATION HUT - ACCUMULATOR HOUSE — A building used for the collection and storage of electricity using large lead-acid batteries (accumulators).
Search the NHLE for: ACCUMULATOR HOUSE - ACETATE FACTORY — A factory used for the production of acetate.
Search the NHLE for: ACETATE FACTORY - ACETONE FACTORY — A factory or group of buildings engaged in the manufacture of acetone. A variety of processes may be used to manufacture acetone including the use of destructive distallation of wood and fermentation technology.
Search the NHLE for: ACETONE FACTORY - ACID TOWER — A coke-filled tower used for the dissolving and neutralising of acid produced by alkali-making processes.
Search the NHLE for: ACID TOWER - ACID WORKS — A building or site used for the production of acids by a range of chemical processes.
Search the NHLE for: ACID WORKS - ACTIVE AIR DEFENCE SITE — A site equipped for active defensive action against an airborne enemy assault.
Search the NHLE for: ACTIVE AIR DEFENCE SITE - ACTIVITY CENTRE — Site or building constructed or adapted for indoor and/or outdoor leisure and sport activities, for example archery, team-building and "outward-bound" activities based on military training.
Search the NHLE for: ACTIVITY CENTRE - ADIT — Horizontal tunnel opening from the surface used for haulage or access to a mine. It can also be used for drainage.
Search the NHLE for: ADIT - ADMIRALTY SIGNAL ESTABLISHMENT — A building or site conducting research into communication techniques for use in the Royal Navy.
Search the NHLE for: ADMIRALTY SIGNAL ESTABLISHMENT - ADMIRALTY SIGNAL STATION — A building or site used for naval communications.
Search the NHLE for: ADMIRALTY SIGNAL STATION - ADMISSION HOSPITAL — A separate hospital building, or block of an asylum, where new arrivals were segregated from old inmates for a defined period. This system was developed from the mid-19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: ADMISSION HOSPITAL - ADULTERINE CASTLE — A castle erected without permission, ie. without a royal licence to crenellate.
Search the NHLE for: ADULTERINE CASTLE - ADVANCED LANDING GROUND — A temporary airfield in use during the build-up to D-Day. They consisted of a natural earth or grass surface reinforced with wire mesh.
Search the NHLE for: ADVANCED LANDING GROUND - AERIAL LIFT — A means of transportation where cars, chairs or cabins are carried above the ground by means of one or more cables suspended between towers or pylons.
Search the NHLE for: AERIAL LIFT - AERIAL ROPEWAY — A system of overhead cables from which cars or containers are suspended (usually driven electrically).
Search the NHLE for: AERIAL ROPEWAY - AEROPLANE REPAIR SECTION SHED — A shed used for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AEROPLANE REPAIR SECTION SHED - AEROPLANE TWIN SHED — A coupled timber built end-opening First World War aircraft hangar.
Search the NHLE for: AEROPLANE TWIN SHED - AEROSPACE ENGINEERING WORKS — A site specializing in the manufacture of parts for the Aerospace industry.
Search the NHLE for: AEROSPACE ENGINEERING WORKS - AGAPEMONE — Religious establishment, founded in Somerset, where free love was practised.
Search the NHLE for: AGAPEMONE - AGGREGATE FIELD SYSTEM — A field system which appears to have developed in an organic, or piecemeal, fashion over time.
Search the NHLE for: AGGREGATE FIELD SYSTEM - AGGREGATE VILLAGE — A settlement whose plan suggests the aggregation of several formerly distinct settlement nuclei into a single settlement.
Search the NHLE for: AGGREGATE VILLAGE - AGRICULTURAL BUILDING — A building used for an agricultural and/or subsistence purpose. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL BUILDING - AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL SITE — Buildings, structures or sites used for the production of chemicals used in agriculture, such as fertilizers and weed killers.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL SITE - AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — An educational establishment where agricultural theory and practice is taught.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE - AGRICULTURAL DWELLING — Buildings and structures inhabited by agricultural workers.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL DWELLING - AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING WORKS — Small engineering works specialising in the production of items such as ploughs and threshing machinery.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING WORKS - AGRICULTURAL HALL — A hall used for the promotion and selling of agricultural produce and practice.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL HALL - AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY DEPOT — A site for the sale or hire of agricultural machinery.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY DEPOT - AGRICULTURAL MERCHANTS — The premises of an agricultural merchant where agricultural equipment, animal feed and fertilizers can be bought.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL MERCHANTS - AGRICULTURAL TOOL WORKS — A small works used for the production of agricultural tools such as hay rakes.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURAL TOOL WORKS - AGRICULTURE AND SUBSISTENCE — Sites, buildings, structures, features and areas of land associated with cultivation, the rearing of livestock, gathering, hunting & fishing. Includes farm based processing of foodstuffs & storage of agricultural produce.
Search the NHLE for: AGRICULTURE AND SUBSISTENCE - AIR DEFENCE SITE — A site equipped for passive or active defence against an airborne enemy assault.
Search the NHLE for: AIR DEFENCE SITE - AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS — A building used for the daily administration of the Royal Air Force.
Search the NHLE for: AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS CENTRE — A building used as a control centre for the Air Raid Precautions network, responsible for issuing air raid warnings and coordinating fire and rescue services.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS CENTRE - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HEADQUARTERS — A building used in the Second World War to co-ordinate action against enemy air raids.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS HEADQUARTERS - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS LANTERN — A specialized lantern, with a reduced glare, for use in air raids.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS LANTERN - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS OBSERVATION POST — An observation post used by Air Raid Precautions wardens to watch for aircraft and bomb strikes.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS OBSERVATION POST - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS REPORT CENTRE — A centre used by the Air Raid Precautions network to co-ordinate reports of air raids in an area.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS REPORT CENTRE - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SIGN — A sign used by the Air Raid Precautions network to assist in identifying vital equipment and resources in the event of an air raid or to aid movement during blackouts.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SIGN - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SIGNAL BOX — A brick built railway signal box, usually with a reinforced correct roof, designed to minimize the effects of blast damage from aerial bombardment and thus protect the signalling equipment.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SIGNAL BOX - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SITE — A site used by the Air Raid Precautions network. Use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS SITE - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS STORE — A building used for the storage and distribution of civilian respirators and Air Raid Precautions equipment.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS STORE - AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS TRAINING CENTRE — A centre used to train Air Raid Precautions wardens.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS TRAINING CENTRE - AIR RAID SHELTER — A fortified structure used to protect civilians and military personnel from enemy bombing.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID SHELTER - AIR RAID WARDENS POST — A purpose-built or adapted structure intended as a headquarters for an air raid precautions warden.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID WARDENS POST - AIR RAID WARNING SIREN — A siren used to warn of an impending attack by enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIR RAID WARNING SIREN - AIR SEA RESCUE STATION — A site or building used to co-ordinate Air-Sea Rescue operations.
Search the NHLE for: AIR SEA RESCUE STATION - AIR TERMINAL — A building at an airport from where passengers embark and disembark from an aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIR TERMINAL - AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SCHOOL — A special school to train personnel for employment in Air Traffic Control and operation duties.
Search the NHLE for: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SCHOOL - AIR TRAINING CORPS HEADQUARTERS — A building used for the daily administration of that branch of the RAF dealing with training pilots.
Search the NHLE for: AIR TRAINING CORPS HEADQUARTERS - AIR TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the control, accommodation, service and testing of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIR TRANSPORT SITE - AIRCRAFT — An aircraft, either whole or in part. Aircraft often survive as commemorative monuments, gate guardians or crash sites.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT - AIRCRAFT BREAKING YARD — A site where aircraft are stored, dismantled and processed for the recovery of serviceable parts.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT BREAKING YARD - AIRCRAFT COMPASS PLATFORM — A circular concrete platform onto which aircraft would be taxied allowing the ground crew to calibrate, check and adjust the accuracy of the aircrafts compass, usually by rotating the platform.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT COMPASS PLATFORM - AIRCRAFT CRASH SITE — A site which is known, or believed to be, where an aircraft crashed. It is an offence to interfere with the wreckage of crashed military aircraft without a licence (Protection of Military Remains Act 1986). Index with AIRCRAFT TYPE where known.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT CRASH SITE - AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORY — A factory where aircraft engines are assembled.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORY - AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING SITE — Sites used for the manufacture of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING SITE - AIRCRAFT FACTORY — A factory where aircraft are assembled.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT FACTORY - AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A structure used for the housing and servicing of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TRANSPORTABLE) — An aircraft hangar designed to be moved from site to site as necessary.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TRANSPORTABLE) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A) — A permanent military RAF aircraft hangar type, designed in 1924. It features a steel frame (with longitudinal ridge and valley trusses for the roof) reinforced concrete and brick infilling for the walls. Typically 122 foot span by 249 foot in length.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A1) — An aircraft hangar built to Air Ministry design. Mainly constructed on aircraft factory aerodromes.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A1) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A2) — An aircraft hangar built to Air Ministry design number 454/43. Mainly constructed on aircraft factory aerodromes
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE A2) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE B) — Aircraft hangars designed by T. Bedford Consulting Engineers to meet the requirement to repair damaged heavy bombers in situ on their airfields.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE B) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE B1) — A large type of military repair hangar mainly used on WWII bomber bases, constructed using steel stanchions and clad in corrugated iron. B 1 hangars were part of a series of prefabricated buildings intended to supplement existing hangars on bases.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE B1) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE B2) — An aircraft hangar designed by T. Bedford Consulting Engineers usually erected on aircraft factory sites rather than operational airfields.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE B2) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE C) — A type of large steel framed aircraft hangar introduced by the Royal Air Force in its Expansion Period with a number of designs between 1934 and 1939, to accomodate heavy bombers.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE C) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE D) — A military storage aircraft hangar built in the late 1930s. It comprises a semicircular concrete structure with reinforced concrete columns, featuring a curved roof and straight walls.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE D) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE E) — A military storage aircraft hangar designed in 1937. It has a curved profile and is constructed from steel ribs supporting a concrete skin. The roof is covered with earth and turf.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE E) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE J) — A large steelframed military aircraft hangar designed in 1939, intended for aircraft maintenance on operational stations. It includes side annexes for workshops and offices, provided with a large number of windows. The annexes are of brick or concrete.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE J) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE K) — A type of large permanent military aircraft hangar with a curved steel frame and storage annexes on its side used in World War II. It was intended for storage purposes on Aircraft Storage Unit stations.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE K) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE L) — A curved military aircraft hangar produced in 1939. The frame is steel which is then clad with steel sheeting and reinforced concrete and typically covered with a thin layer of concrete, earth and turf.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE L) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE S) — A small transportable hangar built by the Teesdie Bridge and Engineering Company. Mainly used on RNAS airfields for folding wing aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE S) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T) — A temporary, steel-framed transportable hangar developed by Teesside Bridge and Engineering Company to replace the obsolete Bellman hangars.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T1) — A type of steel framed transportable British military aircraft hangar developed from 1941onwards. The hangar had a steel frame, some versions used commercially available sheeting for cladding. It was similar to but smaller than the arcraft hangar type T2.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T1) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T2) — A type of temporary military aircraft hangar introduced in 1940; of steel welded and bolted construction typically clad in galvanized corrugated iron sheets. The T2 became the standard temporary hangar for the RAF in World War Two.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T2) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T3) — A steel framed transportable hangar similar in construction to Type T2 but about half the size. Designed in 1941 and 1942.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE T3) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE VR1) — A single-span aircraft hangar designed by Boulton & Paul of London and Norwich (drawing number 4178/44). Mainly used on aircraft factory sites and at Armament Training Schools.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE VR1) - AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE VR2) — A double-span aircraft hangar designed by Boulton & Paul of London and Norwich. Mainly used on aircraft factory sites and at Armament Training Schools.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT HANGAR (TYPE VR2) - AIRCRAFT LEVEL CROSSING — A level crossing designed to allow the passage of aircraft to and from a runway which has a railway or road running through it.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT LEVEL CROSSING - AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE UNIT — Site used for the maintenance of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE UNIT - AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION — Shallow ditches and/or poles erected across open land to obstruct the landing of enemy aircraft and gliders.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT OBSTRUCTION - AIRCRAFT PICKETING POINT — A device on an airfield for securing aircrafts when parked outside in order to prevent major movement due to the weather or other conditions.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT PICKETING POINT - AIRCRAFT STORAGE FACILITY — A building or site where aircraft can be stored and maintained.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT STORAGE FACILITY - AIRCRAFT TESTING SITE — A site used for the functional testing of aircraft and their components.
Search the NHLE for: AIRCRAFT TESTING SITE - AIRFIELD — An area or site used for the landing and take-off of aircraft, often including associated buildings, equipment and other installations.
Search the NHLE for: AIRFIELD - AIRFIELD BUILDING — Non-specific building type associated with an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: AIRFIELD BUILDING - AIRFIELD CODE LETTERS — Large concrete letters representing the ground-to-air airfield code. It has been used to show pilots in WWII the name of the airfield they were above e.g. DW for Dunkeswell.
Search the NHLE for: AIRFIELD CODE LETTERS - AIRFIELD DEFENCE SITE — A site or building associated with active or passive defence of the landing ground and buildings of an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: AIRFIELD DEFENCE SITE - AIRFIELD SLEEPING SHELTER — Shelter on military airfield to provide night time accommodation for airmen during WWII.
Search the NHLE for: AIRFIELD SLEEPING SHELTER - AIRMENS INSTITUTE — An building, often including recreational facilities, provided for the relaxation of serving Royal Air Force Personnel.
Search the NHLE for: AIRMENS INSTITUTE - AIRMENS QUARTERS — A building where non-commissioned aircrew are housed.
Search the NHLE for: AIRMENS QUARTERS - AIRPORT — A site, including an airfield and customs house, where air passengers embark and disembark.
Search the NHLE for: AIRPORT - AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION WORKS — Construction works for the production of rigid or dirigible airships.
Search the NHLE for: AIRSHIP CONSTRUCTION WORKS - AIRSHIP HANGAR — A hangar for the storage and maintenance of dirigible motor-driven balloons.
Search the NHLE for: AIRSHIP HANGAR - AIRSHIP MOORING MAST — A large metal pylon structure used to tether airships.
Search the NHLE for: AIRSHIP MOORING MAST - AIRSHIP STATION — A site, including hangars, moorings and ancillary buildings, used for the storage, maintenance, take off and landing of airships.
Search the NHLE for: AIRSHIP STATION - AISLED BARN — A barn in which a central space is separated from side aisles by posts and braces.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED BARN - AISLED BUILDING — A building with an aisle along one or both sides. Usually a row of posts separates the main space from the aisle.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED BUILDING - AISLED HALL HOUSE — A house with an open hall whose main span is separated by an arcade from the side aisles.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED HALL HOUSE - AISLED HOUSE — Use where the intervening arcade is closed but timber-framed.
Search the NHLE for: AISLED HOUSE - ALE STORE — A building or area within a brewery where barrels of ale are stored.
Search the NHLE for: ALE STORE - ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks dependent on a foreign mother house sent to exploit a distant estate. Alien houses were officially suppressed in 1414.
Search the NHLE for: ALIEN CELL - ALIEN PRIORY — A priory dependent on a foreign mother house. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, MONASTERY or NUNNERY.
Search the NHLE for: ALIEN PRIORY - ALKALI WORKS — A building or site used to produce alkaline chemicals by controlled reactions.
Search the NHLE for: ALKALI WORKS - ALL WEATHER PITCH — A sports pitch usually with a synthetic surface (ie. not grass).
Search the NHLE for: ALL WEATHER PITCH - ALLAN WILLIAMS TURRET — A rotating, domed, steel turret set over a circular pit used as a gun emplacement.
Search the NHLE for: ALLAN WILLIAMS TURRET - ALLEE — A walk bordered by trees or clipped hedges in a garden or park. Made of gravel, sand or turf, it is different from a path or avenue.
Search the NHLE for: ALLEE - ALLEY — A passageway or lane between buildings.
Search the NHLE for: ALLEY - ALLOTMENT — A share or portion of land, allotted to a person, often used for growing, vegetables, fruit, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ALLOTMENT - ALLOTMENT SHED — A slight structure built on an allotment for shelter or storage, or for use as a workshop, by the allotment holder.
Search the NHLE for: ALLOTMENT SHED - ALMONRY — A building adjacent to a monastery where alms were distributed to the poor.
Search the NHLE for: ALMONRY - ALMS TABLE — Place where food or money was handed out to the poor.
Search the NHLE for: ALMS TABLE - ALMSHOUSE — A house devoted to the shelter of the poor and endowed by a benefactor for this use.
Search the NHLE for: ALMSHOUSE - ALPACA MILL — A mill where long-staple hair, often from llamas, is made into yarn.
Search the NHLE for: ALPACA MILL - ALPINE GARDEN — A garden which consists of rocks and rock-loving plants that require little water.
Search the NHLE for: ALPINE GARDEN - ALTAR — An elevated table or podium on which to place or sacrifice offerings to the deities.
Search the NHLE for: ALTAR - ALTAR TOMB — A tomb or memorial, resembling an altar, often with a recumbent effigy on top.
Search the NHLE for: ALTAR TOMB - ALUM HOUSE — A building used for the crystallization process in alum making.
Search the NHLE for: ALUM HOUSE - ALUM QUARRY — A site where alum (hydrous sulphate or salt and alumina) is quarried.
Search the NHLE for: ALUM QUARRY - ALUM WORKS — A group of buildings or works where the evaporation and crystallization of sodium aluminium sulphate solution is performed.
Search the NHLE for: ALUM WORKS - ALUMINIUM SMELTER — A factory producing metallic aluminium by an electrolysis process.
Search the NHLE for: ALUMINIUM SMELTER - ALUMINIUM WORKS — Works for the extrusion of aluminium and for creating aluminium products.
Search the NHLE for: ALUMINIUM WORKS - AMALGAMATION PLANT — An ore works at which gold was separated from the ore by the addition of mercury.
Search the NHLE for: AMALGAMATION PLANT - AMBULANCE GARAGE — A place where ambulances are serviced and maintained.
Search the NHLE for: AMBULANCE GARAGE - AMBULANCE PARK — A site, usually including hardstandings and associated buildings, where ambulances can be parked and stored.
Search the NHLE for: AMBULANCE PARK - AMBULANCE STATION — A building where ambulances are housed awaiting emergency calls.
Search the NHLE for: AMBULANCE STATION - AMERICAN GARDEN — A concept dating in England from the second half of the 18th century, when hardy North American plants were relatively easy to obtain.
Search the NHLE for: AMERICAN GARDEN - AMMONAL WORKS — A works engaged principally in the manufacture of ammonal explosives.
Search the NHLE for: AMMONAL WORKS - AMMONIUM NITRATE WORKS — A chemical works engaged in the production of Ammonium Nitrate, used as a fertilizer or for use in the explosives industry.
Search the NHLE for: AMMONIUM NITRATE WORKS - AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE WORKS — A chemical works engaged in the production of Ammonium Perchlorate, a product used in the explosives industry.
Search the NHLE for: AMMONIUM PERCHLORATE WORKS - AMMUNITION DEPOT — A site, including buildings and hardstandings, used for the storage and distribution of ammunition.
Search the NHLE for: AMMUNITION DEPOT - AMMUNITION DUMP — An installation used for the storage of ammunition.
Search the NHLE for: AMMUNITION DUMP - AMMUNITION STAND — An area of hardstanding on which ammunition is stored.
Search the NHLE for: AMMUNITION STAND - AMPHIBIOUS BASE — A site or building used for the storage and maintenance of both land and sea vehicles and from which terrestrial or maritime operations could be carried out.
Search the NHLE for: AMPHIBIOUS BASE - AMPHITHEATRE — An oval or circular structure with seats rising in tiers around a central open space. Used for religious ceremonies, entertainment, training and armed combat contests.
Search the NHLE for: AMPHITHEATRE - AMUSEMENT ARCADE — A place for recreation with electronic game machines and gambling machines.
Search the NHLE for: AMUSEMENT ARCADE - AMUSEMENT PARK — A recreation ground with usually permanent structure. It usually contains rides such as ghost trains, helter skelter and roller coasters.
Search the NHLE for: AMUSEMENT PARK - ANCHOR WORKS — A building or site used for the production of anchors.
Search the NHLE for: ANCHOR WORKS - ANCHORAGE (MARITIME) — An area off the coast where ships anchor.
Search the NHLE for: ANCHORAGE (MARITIME) - ANCHORESSES CELL — A small dwelling for the solitary confinement of a pious reclusive religious woman or nun, often attached to the north wall of a church. A squint enabled the occupant to witness the Mass.
Search the NHLE for: ANCHORESSES CELL - ANCHORITE CELL — A small dwelling for the solitary confinement of a pious reclusive religious man or monk, often attached to the north wall of a church. A squint enabled the occupant to witness the Mass.
Search the NHLE for: ANCHORITE CELL - ANDERSON SHELTER — An air raid shelter, designed to be placed in the garden. Made from prefabricated components, they were often semi-sunken and the structure then covered with soil for added protection.
Search the NHLE for: ANDERSON SHELTER - ANGLE TOWER — A fortified tower found at the angle of a castle wall.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLE TOWER - ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL — The principal Anglican church in a diocese in which the cathedra or bishop's throne is to be found.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL - ANGLICAN CHAPEL — A chapel where the followers of the Anglican tradition worship.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN CHAPEL - ANGLICAN CHURCH — Any church of the Anglican Communion.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN CHURCH - ANGLICAN MONASTERY — A place of residence and worship for Anglican monks.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN MONASTERY - ANGLICAN NUNNERY — A place of worship and residence for Anglican nuns.
Search the NHLE for: ANGLICAN NUNNERY - ANIMAL BREEDING FACILITY — A building or group of buildings designed for the breeding and rearing of animals, including fish and birds. Often include incubators and heated rooms.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL BREEDING FACILITY - ANIMAL BURIAL — Deliberate interment of a complete, or substantially complete, animal. Use the object type thesaurus term ANIMAL REMAINS where skeleton is fragmentary.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL BURIAL - ANIMAL BURIAL PIT — A place where dead animals are buried.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL BURIAL PIT - ANIMAL CAGE — A box or place of confinement for animals, made wholly or partly of wire, wood or bars of metal, so as to admit air and light.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL CAGE - ANIMAL CEMETERY — A burial site for animals.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL CEMETERY - ANIMAL CREMATORIUM — Place for the cremation of animals.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL CREMATORIUM - ANIMAL DWELLING — Including accommodation for animals, birds, reptiles and fish in captivity.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL DWELLING - ANIMAL FOOD PROCESSING PLANT — Buildings used in the production of animal food.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL FOOD PROCESSING PLANT - ANIMAL HAIR FACTORY — A building or complex where animal hair is processed, using a variety of means, for use in products such as brushes, mattresses etc.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL HAIR FACTORY - ANIMAL HOUSE — Living quarters for animals, birds, etc, as pets or for observation, entertainment, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL HOUSE - ANIMAL MEMORIAL — A monument commemorating an animal.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL MEMORIAL - ANIMAL POWER SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the use of animals to generate power.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL POWER SITE - ANIMAL PRODUCT SITE — Buildings or sites used in the production of items derived from the parts of animals not used for consumption.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL PRODUCT SITE - ANIMAL QUARANTINE CENTRE — A building complex, usually including kennels and cages and built close to a port or airport, in which animals can be securely held, for a designated period, to ensure that they are not carrying any infectious diseases which could be spread to others.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL QUARANTINE CENTRE - ANIMAL SANCTUARY — A place where injured or endangered animals are kept and looked after.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL SANCTUARY - ANIMAL SHED — A building in which animals are housed. For non agricultural use see ANIMAL HOUSE and narrow terms in RECREATIONAL class.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL SHED - ANIMAL STALL — A stall where animals are kept individually.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL STALL - ANIMAL TOMB — A burial site for an animal, usually commemorated by a gravestone or other structure.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL TOMB - ANIMAL WASH — A place or building where animals can be washed. Often in the form of a pool with a walled funnel-like structure enabling animals to be guided into the pool.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL WASH - ANIMAL WELFARE SITE — A building, range of buildings or site, for the accommodation, rearing and/or treatment of animals, birds and fish, both wild and domestic.
Search the NHLE for: ANIMAL WELFARE SITE - ANNEALING FURNACE — For reheating of worked metal or glass to make it malleable or to harden it after use for toolmaking, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ANNEALING FURNACE - ANNEXE ENCLOSURE — A subsidiary enclosure externally attached to an enclosure of known or unknown date and function. The annexe is generally smaller than, and secondary to, the main enclosure. Use more specific site type where known. Do not use for Roman military sites.
Search the NHLE for: ANNEXE ENCLOSURE - ANODIZING WORKS — A processed used to increase the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of metal parts. The part being treated forms the anode of an electrolytic cell.
Search the NHLE for: ANODIZING WORKS - ANTENATAL BLOCK — An area within a hospital concerned with the care and medical treatment of expectant mothers.
Search the NHLE for: ANTENATAL BLOCK - ANTENNA ARRAY — A structure used for the transmission and interception of radio signals. Usually composed of a number of different elements such as aerials, receiving equipment and supporting pylons.
Search the NHLE for: ANTENNA ARRAY - ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY — A site containing one or more artillery pieces and/or rocket launchers for firing at enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY - ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY COMMAND POST — A command post used to direct the guns of an anti aircraft battery.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY COMMAND POST - ANTI AIRCRAFT DEFENCE SITE — Sites, buildings and structures for the control and mounting of anti aircraft artillery. Also, structures for passive or indirect defence against enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT DEFENCE SITE - ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN EMPLACEMENT — Gun emplacement for static or mobile light anti aircraft artillery.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN EMPLACEMENT - ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN POST — A light anti aircraft position, usually open-walled and built of concrete, brick or sandbags used to emplace one or more machine guns mounted on pintels.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN POST - ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN TOWER — A purpose-built firing platform on which an anti-aircraft battery could be emplaced.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT GUN TOWER - ANTI AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS ROOM — A one or two storey reinforced concrete structure, usually associated with two T shaped radio masts. Term is specific to army anti-aircraft control centres operational between 1950-55.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS ROOM - ANTI BOAT LANDING OBSTACLE — Obstacles, including scaffolding and anti tank blocks designed to impede an enemy's attempts to land forces onto open beaches.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI BOAT LANDING OBSTACLE - ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE — Sites, buildings and structures associated with the prevention of an invasion by a hostile force.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI INVASION DEFENCE SITE - ANTI LANDING CABLE — A cable, usually erected between posts, used to prevent the landing or hostile aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI LANDING CABLE - ANTI LANDING OBSTACLE — Obstacles placed in open spaces and alongside roads designed to prevent the successful landing of enemy airborne forces.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI LANDING OBSTACLE - ANTI LANDING POLE — A telegraph pole, tree trunk or similar erected on the side of a road, or in an open space, to prevent the landing of hostile aircraft
Search the NHLE for: ANTI LANDING POLE - ANTI LANDING TRENCH — A purpose built trench designed to prevent the successful landing of enemy glider-borne and airborne forces.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI LANDING TRENCH - ANTI MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT BATTERY — A coastal battery containing one or more artillery pieces for to defend the coast against hostile motor torpedo boats.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT BATTERY - ANTI SEAPLANE OBSTACLE — Submerged obstacles to stop the landing of Seaplanes
Search the NHLE for: ANTI SEAPLANE OBSTACLE - ANTI SUBMARINE DEFENCE — Second World War defence work usually consisting of securinng points for a boom defence, associated gun, and searchlight, emplacements
Search the NHLE for: ANTI SUBMARINE DEFENCE - ANTI TANK BLOCK — A reinforced concrete block designed to obstruct the progress of a tank or armoured vehicle. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK BLOCK - ANTI TANK BUOY — Blocks of solid concrete, in the shape of a round bottomed cone usually 2 feet 6 inches across x 2 feet 9 inches high. Buoys were mainly used in road blocks intended to impede enemy movement in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK BUOY - ANTI TANK CALTROP — Blocks of concrete with four protruding arms so that, whichever way up the caltrop is placed, one arm will always point upward. Used in imitation of the iron caltrops thrown on the ground to impede cavalry.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK CALTROP - ANTI TANK COFFIN — Rectangular slabs of concrete with a sloping top usually with sides of 5 feet by 3 feet and 3 feet high which when placed in rows were intended to form a substantial barrier to enemy armoured divisions in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK COFFIN - ANTI TANK CONE — Cones of solid concrete usually 3 feet 6 inches in diameter x 2 feet high which, when placed in rows or groups were intended to form a substantial barrier to enemy armoured divisions in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK CONE - ANTI TANK CUBE — Cubes of solid concrete, usually with sides of 3 feet 6 inches or 5 feet which when placed in rows were intended to form a substantial barrier to enemy armoured divisions in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK CUBE - ANTI TANK CYLINDER — Blocks of solid concrete, in the form of cylinders usually 2 feet across x 2 feet 6 inches or 3 feet high. Cylinders were mainly used in road blocks intended to impede enemy movement in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK CYLINDER - ANTI TANK DITCH — Stop-line against invading tanks in form of a ditch during the defence of Britain.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK DITCH - ANTI TANK DITCH (ARTIFICIAL) — A man made ditch designed to obstruct the progress of a tank or armoured vehicle. Ditches were often reveted with concrete or wood.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK DITCH (ARTIFICIAL) - ANTI TANK DITCH (NATURAL IMPROVED) — A natural ditch the depth and/or width of which has been increased so as to prevent the progress of a tank or armoured vehicle.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK DITCH (NATURAL IMPROVED) - ANTI TANK GIRDER — A metal girder, usually of iron or steel, embedded in the ground designed to obstruct the progress of hostile tanks or armoured vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK GIRDER - ANTI TANK GUN EMPLACEMENT — A defensive structure or site where an anti-tank gun is emplaced.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK GUN EMPLACEMENT - ANTI TANK GUNNERY RANGE — An area of ground on which anti tank guns can be placed for testing purposes and to practice firing at targets.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK GUNNERY RANGE - ANTI TANK HAIRPIN — A road block formed by placing curved rails, "hairpins", in sockets in the road surface.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK HAIRPIN - ANTI TANK ISLAND — A designated area within a town or village with fixed defences such as pillboxes, anti tank ditches and gun emplacements, designed to threaten the flanks of an enemy force which had broken through a stop line.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK ISLAND - ANTI TANK OBSTACLE — Obstacles like concrete cubes, cylinders or pimples erected in the defence of Britain.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK OBSTACLE - ANTI TANK PIMPLE — Blocks of solid concrete,in the form of truncated pyramids usually 3 feet square x 2 feet high which could be placed in rows to impede enemy movement in the event of invasion. Pimples were recommended for use on soft ground.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK PIMPLE - ANTI TANK SCAFFOLDING — Scaffolding intended to impede the advance of enemy armoured divisions. Often found in association with "one way" anti tank ditches.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK SCAFFOLDING - ANTI TANK TETRAHEDRON — Triangular concrete pyramids with 6 feet long sides and 5 feet high, intended to impede enemy movement in the event of invasion. Thought to be confined geogaphically to Southern Command.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK TETRAHEDRON - ANTI TANK VERTICAL RAIL — A road block formed by placing rails or girders in an upright position in sockets in the road surface, forming a moveable barrier.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK VERTICAL RAIL - ANTI TANK WALL — A wall, usually of reinforced concrete, designed to obstruct the progress of a tank or armoured vehicle
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK WALL - ANTI TANK WALL (ASSAULT TRAINING) — An anti tank wall constructed specifically to be used for training purposes.
Search the NHLE for: ANTI TANK WALL (ASSAULT TRAINING) - ANTIMONY MINE — When secondary product use with major product and MINE, eg. COPPER MINE.
Search the NHLE for: ANTIMONY MINE - ANTIMONY SMELTER — Any building, group of buildings, or site in which antimony was smelted. Mainly 18th century.
Search the NHLE for: ANTIMONY SMELTER - ANTIQUE MARKET — An indoor market used for the sale of antique goods.
Search the NHLE for: ANTIQUE MARKET - ANTLER WORKING SITE — A site which has produced evidence of in situ production of items derived from antler.
Search the NHLE for: ANTLER WORKING SITE - APARTMENT — A room or suite of rooms used as dwellings, eg. in private houses, hotels or tenement houses.
Search the NHLE for: APARTMENT - APIARY — A place where beehives are kept.
Search the NHLE for: APIARY - APOTROPAIC MARK — A device, monogram or symbol usually carved on stone or woodwork near a building’s entrance points, particularly doorways, windows and fireplaces, to protect inhabitants and visitors from witches and evil spirits.
Search the NHLE for: APOTROPAIC MARK - APPRENTICE HOUSE — A lodging house for apprentices learning a trade or profession. This accommodation was often provided in lieu of wages.
Search the NHLE for: APPRENTICE HOUSE - APPROACH ROAD — A road, sometimes raised as a causeway, which serves as an approach road to a building or bridge.
Search the NHLE for: APPROACH ROAD - AQUARIUM — A zoo building containing artificial ponds or tanks in which aquatic plants and animals are kept alive for purposes of observation and study.
Search the NHLE for: AQUARIUM - AQUEDUCT — An artificial water channel for carrying water over long distances. Use also for bridge-like structures that carry the channel or canal across a valley, river or other obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: AQUEDUCT - ARBORETUM — A place devoted to the cultivation and exhibition of rare trees.
Search the NHLE for: ARBORETUM - ARBOUR — A lattice work bower or shady retreat covered with climbing plants.
Search the NHLE for: ARBOUR - ARCH — A structure over an opening usually formed of wedge-shaped blocks of brick or stone held together by mutual pressure and supported at the sides; they can also be formed from moulded concrete/ cast metal. A component; use for free-standing structure only.
Search the NHLE for: ARCH - ARCH BRIDGE — A curved structural span which is supported at the sides or ends. May vary in shape from the horizontal flat arch through semicircular and semielliptical forms.
Search the NHLE for: ARCH BRIDGE - ARCH DAM — A curved dam usually built of concrete and designed with the curve upstream so that the force of the water compresses the structure and strengthens it as it pushes it into its foundations. Arch dams are best suited to narrow gorges
Search the NHLE for: ARCH DAM - ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURE — Use only for features assumed to be archaeological but which cannot be identified more precisely without further investigation .Use more specific term where known
Search the NHLE for: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURE - ARCHBISHOPS PALACE — The official residence of an archbishop, eg. Lambeth Palace.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHBISHOPS PALACE - ARCHDEACONRY — The residence and office of an archdeacon.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHDEACONRY - ARCHERY BUTTS — A mound or structure on which targets are placed for archery practice or competition.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHERY BUTTS - ARCHERY GROUND — An open flat gound where the sport of shooting with bow and arrows is pursued. The ground can be equipped with targets mounted on butts and various fixed distance marker.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHERY GROUND - ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT — Use more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENT - ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT WORKSHOP — A place where architectural ornaments such as stone vases and urns are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT WORKSHOP - ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL — An educational establishment where the art and theory of building and construction is taught.
Search the NHLE for: ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL - ARD MARKS — The subsoil traces of prehistoric cultivation, presumed to have been caused by the use of an ard to till the soil.
Search the NHLE for: ARD MARKS - ARMAMENT DEPOT — A building used to store military equipment and ammunition.
Search the NHLE for: ARMAMENT DEPOT - ARMAMENT MANUFACTURING SITE — A building or site used for the manufacture, assembly and testing of weapons, explosives and associated military hardware.
Search the NHLE for: ARMAMENT MANUFACTURING SITE - ARMOURED VEHICLE — An armoured fighting vehicle. Often survive as commemorative monuments, targets and coastal wrecks.
Search the NHLE for: ARMOURED VEHICLE - ARMOURY — A place where weapons are kept.
Search the NHLE for: ARMOURY - ARMY CAMP — A site where an army or body of troops is, temporarily or permanently, lodged, with or without entrenchments and fortifications.
Search the NHLE for: ARMY CAMP - ARMY HEADQUARTERS — A building used for the daily administration of an army.
Search the NHLE for: ARMY HEADQUARTERS - ARMY OFFICE — A building used for a variety of administrative purposes, usually at a military base.
Search the NHLE for: ARMY OFFICE - ARSENAL — A building or large scale site for the manufacture and/or storage of weapons, ammunition and equipment.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENAL - ARSENIC CALCINER — A type of calcining kiln used in arsenic manufacture.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENIC CALCINER - ARSENIC MINE — When secondary product use with major product and MINE, eg. COPPER MINE.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENIC MINE - ARSENIC WORKS — Buildings and plant used for the extraction and purification of arsenic oxide into various forms of pure arsenic.
Search the NHLE for: ARSENIC WORKS - ART AND EDUCATION VENUE — Buildings and structures associated with educational and artistic recreational activities.
Search the NHLE for: ART AND EDUCATION VENUE - ART GALLERY — A building in which works of art are displayed, permanently or temporarily.
Search the NHLE for: ART GALLERY - ART SCHOOL — A place where the creative arts are taught to students.
Search the NHLE for: ART SCHOOL - ART STORAGE FACILITY — A site used for the safe storage of the art held in the national collections. During the Second World War many paintings, sculptures and works of art were moved to modified mines for safe keeping to protect them against bomb damage.
Search the NHLE for: ART STORAGE FACILITY - ARTEFACT SCATTER — A spatially discrete scatter of mixed artefactual material found on the ground, seabed or riverbed which may have been deposited over time rather than resulting from one particular event. Index particular types where appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: ARTEFACT SCATTER - ARTIFICIAL DYE WORKS — A site used for the production of dyes from controlled chemical reactions. In use from the mid 19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: ARTIFICIAL DYE WORKS - ARTIFICIAL LIMB FACTORY — A factory used for the production of artificial limbs. They were often located within the precincts of a hospital, to enable fittings to take place and help the amputee to get used to wearing the limb.
Search the NHLE for: ARTIFICIAL LIMB FACTORY - ARTIFICIAL MOUND — An artificial hill constructed in Tudor gardens, especially, to provide a good view.
Search the NHLE for: ARTIFICIAL MOUND - ARTIFICIAL REEF — A human constructed underwater structure, usually built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless eas bed but have also been built to control erosion, block ship passage, or improve surfing.
Search the NHLE for: ARTIFICIAL REEF - ARTIFICIAL TEXTILE FACTORY — For chemical processes making nylon, rayon, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ARTIFICIAL TEXTILE FACTORY - ARTILLERY CASTLE — Castles constructed between 1481 and 1561 for defence using heavy guns.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY CASTLE - ARTILLERY FIRING RANGE — A piece of ground, or a building, on which artillery may be fired at targets.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY FIRING RANGE - ARTILLERY FORT — A fortified building or site with purpose built emplacements for artillery pieces.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY FORT - ARTILLERY GROUND — A place in which the artillery is encamped or collected together.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY GROUND - ARTILLERY SCHOOL — A training establishment for gunnery personnel.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY SCHOOL - ARTILLERY TOWER — A fortified tower designed to house a number of artillery pieces and a small garrison. Artillery towers first appear in England in the 16th century.
Search the NHLE for: ARTILLERY TOWER - ARTISTS STUDIO — An apartment, usually with a north-light, used by artists.
Search the NHLE for: ARTISTS STUDIO - ARTS CENTRE — A building housing a variety of facilities, such as theatres, galleries, concert halls, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ARTS CENTRE - ASBESTOS FACTORY — Factory producing asbestos sheeting and or asbestos fibre.
Search the NHLE for: ASBESTOS FACTORY - ASH HOPPER — A hopper for the storage of ash.
Search the NHLE for: ASH HOPPER - ASH HOUSE — A small outlying farm building, especially common in southern England, used to store ash (which was used as a fertilizer).
Search the NHLE for: ASH HOUSE - ASH PIT — A pit containing burnt ashes.
Search the NHLE for: ASH PIT - ASHKENAZI MATZEVAH — A matzevah from the Ashkenazi group of Jews descended from medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland and Eastern Europe. Characterised by upright headstones with Hebrew Inscriptions
Search the NHLE for: ASHKENAZI MATZEVAH - ASSART — A piece of forest land converted into arable.
Search the NHLE for: ASSART - ASSAY OFFICE — A building for the weighing or testing of metals, eg. at a mine site.
Search the NHLE for: ASSAY OFFICE - ASSEMBLY HALL — A hall in which public assemblies and meetings can be held.
Search the NHLE for: ASSEMBLY HALL - ASSEMBLY PLANT — A factory for the assembly of components. Usually associated with the manufacture of vehicles: cars, lorries, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ASSEMBLY PLANT - ASSEMBLY ROOMS — A building or set of rooms, primarily of the 18th century, in which social gatherings and balls were held.
Search the NHLE for: ASSEMBLY ROOMS - ASSIZE COURT — Court where sessions were held periodically in each county in England, for the purpose of administering civil and criminal justice. Presided over by itinerant judges acting under certain special commissions. Abolished 1971 and in 1972 replaced by Crown C.
Search the NHLE for: ASSIZE COURT - ASTROLABE — Fixed instrument to measure altitude of stars and planets.
Search the NHLE for: ASTROLABE - ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK — A clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astonomical information.
Search the NHLE for: ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK - ATHENAEUM — A type of public building common in the 18th and 19th century, serving as an educational and/or learned society institute.
Search the NHLE for: ATHENAEUM - ATHLETICS TRACK — A running track used for athletic practice and competition.
Search the NHLE for: ATHLETICS TRACK - ATMOSPHERIC ENGINE HOUSE — Building housing a form of early steam engine using steam at atmospheric pressure. Chiefly employed in mine pumping.
Search the NHLE for: ATMOSPHERIC ENGINE HOUSE - ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY — A railway worked by the propulsive force of compressed air or by the formation of a vacuum.
Search the NHLE for: ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY - ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY ENGINE HOUSE — An engine house which used air pressure to power trains on the experimental atmospheric railways of the 1840s.
Search the NHLE for: ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY ENGINE HOUSE - ATOMIC WEAPONS RESEARCH STATION — Establishments responsible for the research into and the design, development and manufacture of nuclear warheads.
Search the NHLE for: ATOMIC WEAPONS RESEARCH STATION - AUCTION HOUSE — A place where public sales of goods are made by competitive bidding.
Search the NHLE for: AUCTION HOUSE - AUGUSTINIAN ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Augustinian order dependent on a foreign mother house.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN ALIEN CELL - AUGUSTINIAN CELL — A small monastery or nunnery of the Augustinian order dependent on a larger mother house.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN CELL - AUGUSTINIAN DOUBLE HOUSE — A mixed house of Augustinian nuns, canonesses and canons.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN DOUBLE HOUSE - AUGUSTINIAN FRIARY — A house of friars of the Augustinian order. Also known as Austin Friars
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN FRIARY - AUGUSTINIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Augustinian order.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN GRANGE - AUGUSTINIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Augustinian canons.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN MONASTERY - AUGUSTINIAN NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Augustinian canonesses.
Search the NHLE for: AUGUSTINIAN NUNNERY - AUXILIARY FIRE STATION — A fire station built for use by the Auxiliary Fire Service, established in 1938 to supplement existing local brigades.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY FIRE STATION - AUXILIARY FORT — A permanent Roman fort enclosed by a number of ditches and ramparts, used to house a garrison of auxiliaries.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY FORT - AUXILIARY HIDE — WWII secret bases, sometimes partially underground, intended for use by the British resistance in the eventuality of a foreign invasion.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY HIDE - AUXILIARY HOSPITAL — A building temporarily requistioned for use as a hospital. Auxiliary hospitals treated the less seriously wounded and were less strict than military hospitals although they remained under military control.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY HOSPITAL - AUXILIARY UNIT BOMB STORE — A structure, usually well concealed, used to store explosives intended for use by the Auxiliary Units (or British Resistance Organization) in the event of an invasion.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT BOMB STORE - AUXILIARY UNIT CONTROL STATION — An underground hideout containing radio equipment to be used by the Auxiliary Units to relay information gained from the various out-stations back to headquarters.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT CONTROL STATION - AUXILIARY UNIT OBSERVATION POST — An observation post, usually well concealed, intended for use by the Auxiliary Units (or British Resistance Organisation), in the event of an invasion, to watch enemy movements without being seen.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT OBSERVATION POST - AUXILIARY UNIT OPERATIONAL BASE — A well concealed structure, usually constructed underground, intended for use by members of the British Resistance Organization in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT OPERATIONAL BASE - AUXILIARY UNIT SITE — A site intended for use by the Auxiliary Units (or British Resistance Organisation) in the event of an invasion. Use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT SITE - AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES BASE — A well concealed structure, usually constructed undergound, intended for use by members of the Special Duties section of the Auxiliary Units (or British Resistance Organization) in the event of invasion.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES BASE - AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES CONTROL STATION — An underground hideout containing radio equipment to be used by the Special Duties sections of the Auxiliary Units to co-ordinate information collected by the outstations for relaying to headquarters.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES CONTROL STATION - AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES OUTSTATION — A hideout containing radio equipment to be used by the Special Duties sections of the Auxiliary Units to send information to the control station for relaying to headquarters.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES OUTSTATION - AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES ZERO STATION — An underground hideout containing radio equipment to be used by the Special Duties sections of the Auxiliary Units to recieve coded information from the out-stations in the surrounding area for relaying to headquarters via direct phone line.
Search the NHLE for: AUXILIARY UNIT SPECIAL DUTIES ZERO STATION - AVENUE (LANDSCAPE FEATURE) — A monument consisting of parallel lines of banks, ditches, stones, timber posts or trees which appears to mark out an approach to another monument or monuments. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: AVENUE (LANDSCAPE FEATURE) - AVENUE (ROAD) — A wide street, traditionally lined with trees.
Search the NHLE for: AVENUE (ROAD) - AVIARY — A house, enclosure or large cage for the keeping and breeding of birds.
Search the NHLE for: AVIARY
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- BABY GARDEN — A garden associated with a crematorium where the ashes of deceased infants are scattered or buried.
Search the NHLE for: BABY GARDEN - BACK HOUSE — A brewing or baking house attached to a vernacular building, 16/17th century.
Search the NHLE for: BACK HOUSE - BACK SHED — A single-storey structure, usually situated against the exterior of a walled garden's south facing wall, used for storage and often accomodation.
Search the NHLE for: BACK SHED - BACK TO BACK HOUSE — A house in a terrace consisting of a double row of houses sharing a common back wall, characteristic of industrial cities in the North of England.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO BACK HOUSE - BACK TO BACK TERRACE — A terrace consisting of a double row of houses sharing a common back wall, characteristic of industrial cities in the North of England.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO BACK TERRACE - BACK TO EARTH HOUSE — A type of back to back house built on a hillside, of four storeys and with entrances at different levels.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO EARTH HOUSE - BACK TO EARTH TERRACE — A terrace of BACK TO EARTH HOUSES.
Search the NHLE for: BACK TO EARTH TERRACE - BACKYARD — A small yard attached to the rear of a house or other building.
Search the NHLE for: BACKYARD - BADGER PIT — A site used for the sport of badger baiting using fighting dogs.
Search the NHLE for: BADGER PIT - BADMINTON COURT — An indoor play area for the game of badminton.
Search the NHLE for: BADMINTON COURT - BAGGAGE HALL — Use for distinct structure on a large scale.
Search the NHLE for: BAGGAGE HALL - BAILEY — The courtyard of a castle, ie. the area enclosed by the rampart or curtain. Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BAILEY - BAILEY BRIDGE — A type of temporary bridge designed by Sir Donald C.Bailey during the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: BAILEY BRIDGE - BAIT SHED — A shed for storing fishing bait.
Search the NHLE for: BAIT SHED - BAITING PLACE — A site where the baiting of animals took place. Use more specific site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BAITING PLACE - BAIZE WORKS — A factory making baize for snooker and gaming tables.
Search the NHLE for: BAIZE WORKS - BAKEHOUSE — A service building to a country house, farm, etc, used for baking. If commercial premises use BAKERY.
Search the NHLE for: BAKEHOUSE - BAKERY — A commercial bakery or bread factory. If domestic use BAKEHOUSE.
Search the NHLE for: BAKERY - BALANCE BEAM — The horizontal beam on a lock gate.
Search the NHLE for: BALANCE BEAM - BALCONY ACCESS BLOCK — Block of flats within which the individual dwellings are accessed by narrow external balconies.
Search the NHLE for: BALCONY ACCESS BLOCK - BALL CLAY WORKS — A works, including an extractive site, producing a clay of high plasticity and firmness, used as a basic raw material for porcelain.
Search the NHLE for: BALL CLAY WORKS - BALL SPORTS SITE — A building, site or structure associated with the playing of ball sports.
Search the NHLE for: BALL SPORTS SITE - BALLAST HILL — An artificial mound created by the disposal of aggregate originally used as ballast in ships.
Search the NHLE for: BALLAST HILL - BALLAST POND — A water-filled hole used for the disposal of aggregate originally used as ballast in ships.
Search the NHLE for: BALLAST POND - BALLET SCHOOL — A training school where ballet is taught.
Search the NHLE for: BALLET SCHOOL - BALLOON SHED — A building used for fabricating balloon and airship envelopes.
Search the NHLE for: BALLOON SHED - BALLROOM — A room designed or suitable for dancing.
Search the NHLE for: BALLROOM - BALUSTRADE — A row of balusters, usually made of stone, surmounted by a rail or coping.
Search the NHLE for: BALUSTRADE - BANDAGE FACTORY — A building manufacturing bandages.
Search the NHLE for: BANDAGE FACTORY - BANDSTAND — A platform or other structure for the use of a band of musicians.
Search the NHLE for: BANDSTAND - BANJO ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of a small (generally less than 100m diameter) subcircular enclosure with a narrow approach way consisting of parallel ditches (thus banjo shaped). Believed to be associated with stock management in the Later Prehistoric period.
Search the NHLE for: BANJO ENCLOSURE - BANK (EARTHWORK) — Linear or curvilinear construction of earth, turf and stone, often, but not always accompanied by a ditch. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BANK (EARTHWORK) - BANK (FINANCIAL) — An establishment used for the custody of money received from, or on behalf, of its customers.
Search the NHLE for: BANK (FINANCIAL) - BANK BARN — A multi-purpose, two-storey barn, built on a hillside with entrances at both levels to a first floor threshing barn and ground floor animal housing.
Search the NHLE for: BANK BARN - BANK BARROW — A poorly understood Neolithic monument comprising a very long, narrow earthen mound. They may be of single-phase construction, or represent the addition of a linear extension to the bank of an existing Long Barrow.
Search the NHLE for: BANK BARROW - BANQUETING HOUSE — A hall, apartment or large room, designed or used primarily for festive or state functions.
Search the NHLE for: BANQUETING HOUSE - BAPTIST BURIAL GROUND — A cemetery for baptist followers.
Search the NHLE for: BAPTIST BURIAL GROUND - BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Baptists. The first Baptist church was formed by Thomas Helws in 1611 and gave rise to the General Baptist Movement.
Search the NHLE for: BAPTIST CHAPEL - BAPTISTERY — An area of a church, often a free-standing building, in which baptism is administered
Search the NHLE for: BAPTISTERY - BAR (LICENSED) — An establishment where alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks are served, food may also be served. May be a an individual room within a larger multi purpose building such as a sports pavilion or a theatre.
Search the NHLE for: BAR (LICENSED) - BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENT — One or more coils of barbed wire intended to impede the advance of hostile troops.
Search the NHLE for: BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENT - BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTION — Rolls of barbed wire with supporting metal posts designed to impede enemy advance.
Search the NHLE for: BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTION - BARBERS SHOP — A hairdressing establishment for men.
Search the NHLE for: BARBERS SHOP - BARBICAN — Any earthworks, walling, bastion or fortified outwork, or combination of these, generally with ditch or moat.
Search the NHLE for: BARBICAN - BARGE BED — A foreshore structure to prevent barges from sinking in the river mud. Made by placing chalk on fascines of brushwood, which is in some cases retained by a timber revetement.
Search the NHLE for: BARGE BED - BARILLA MILL — A mill used for the preparation of Barilla, an ash of burnt seaweed that was used for the production of soda.
Search the NHLE for: BARILLA MILL - BARK HOUSE — A building used for storing tree bark.
Search the NHLE for: BARK HOUSE - BARK MILL — Mill for grinding bark usually for use in the tanning industry. Use with power type(s), eg. WATERMILL where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARK MILL - BARK PEELERS HUT — A round hut, similar to a CHARCOAL BURNERS HUT, associated with forest industry. The bark was later used in the tanning process.
Search the NHLE for: BARK PEELERS HUT - BARK POT — A large cauldron used in the making of a preservative from the bark of spruce, fir or other conifers. The preservative was used to treat nets, sails and other fishing gear.
Search the NHLE for: BARK POT - BARMKIN — A defensive cattle enclosure added to fortified towers.
Search the NHLE for: BARMKIN - BARN — A building for the storage and processing of grain crops and for housing straw, farm equipment and occasionally livestock and their fodder. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARN - BARN PLATFORM — A levelled area of ground on which a barn is built. A platform is often the sole surviving evidence for a barn.
Search the NHLE for: BARN PLATFORM - BARRACKS — A building used to house members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: BARRACKS - BARRAGE — A manmade barrier built across a river in order to increase the depth of water.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE - BARRAGE BALLOON CENTRE — An RAF Base, used specifically for the storage and maintenance of barrage balloons.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON CENTRE - BARRAGE BALLOON GAS DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage and distribution lighter than air gases for use in barrage balloons.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON GAS DEPOT - BARRAGE BALLOON HANGAR — A hangar used for the storage of barrage balloons.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON HANGAR - BARRAGE BALLOON MANUFACTORING SITE — A site or building where barrage balloons are manufactured. Consider double-indexing with the term WAR PRODUCTION FACTORY if appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON MANUFACTORING SITE - BARRAGE BALLOON MOORING — A mooring, usually consisting of a concrete plinth, to which a barrage balloon was attached.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON MOORING - BARRAGE BALLOON SHELTER — A building associated with a barrage balloon site and intended to provide shelter for the balloon crew from air attack.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON SHELTER - BARRAGE BALLOON SITE — A site where a single large balloon was attached by fine wire cables to the ground to form an aerial obstruction to attacking enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: BARRAGE BALLOON SITE - BARREL FLAME TRAP — An anti-personnel device consisting of a 40 gallon fuel drum placed on top of an explosive charge and detonator. When detonated the barrel would explode sending burning fuel over the intended target.
Search the NHLE for: BARREL FLAME TRAP - BARRIER — An obstruction, usually manmade, which is used to restrict or prevent access to a settlement, building or area of land. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARRIER - BARROW — Artificial mound of earth, turf and/or stone, normally constructed to contain or conceal burials. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARROW - BARROW CEMETERY — A cluster of closely spaced barrows and related monuments (eg. ring ditches). Use with specific barrow-types where known.
Search the NHLE for: BARROW CEMETERY - BARYTES MILL — A mill in which barytes concentrates were ground to fine white powder, normally by use of flat millstones similar to those of a corn mill.
Search the NHLE for: BARYTES MILL - BARYTES MINE — A site where barytes (barium sulphate) is mined. Barytes is also commonly worked from the waste tips of lead mines.
Search the NHLE for: BARYTES MINE - BARYTES WORKS — A complex of buildings where barytes is processed for industrial use.
Search the NHLE for: BARYTES WORKS - BASCULE BRIDGE — A bridge that incorporates one or two spans that tilt at the abutments, to move up and out of the way of shipping. The most famous example of which is Tower Bridge, London.
Search the NHLE for: BASCULE BRIDGE - BASE CRUCK HOUSE — A CRUCK HOUSE where the cruck blades are truncated and joined by a collar beam, above which is a separate roof construction.
Search the NHLE for: BASE CRUCK HOUSE - BASEBALL COURT — A prepared area used for the game of baseball.
Search the NHLE for: BASEBALL COURT - BASEMENT — Component. Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BASEMENT - BASILICA — An aisled timber or masonry hall, serving as the chief administrative public meeting centre and law courts for a Roman town. Usually located alongside the forum.
Search the NHLE for: BASILICA - BASILICAN CHURCH — A church, the plan of which is based on that of a Roman basilica.
Search the NHLE for: BASILICAN CHURCH - BASKET MAKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop where baskets were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BASKET MAKERS WORKSHOP - BASKETBALL COURT — A prepared area of ground, often enclosed, used for the game of basketball.
Search the NHLE for: BASKETBALL COURT - BASTION — A flanking tower, or projection from the main walls of a defensive work from which a garrison can defend the ground in front or on the flank.
Search the NHLE for: BASTION - BASTION OUTWORK — Earthworks and buildings added around a bastion to enhance protection of the bastion.
Search the NHLE for: BASTION OUTWORK - BASTION TRACE FORT — A fort with projecting bastions, which came into use from the 16th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: BASTION TRACE FORT - BASTLE — A fortified house of two or three storeys, the lower floor being used to house animals and the upper for domestic use.
Search the NHLE for: BASTLE - BASTLE (NON DEFENSIVE) — A stone building with external access to the domestic accommodation via a permanent stair. The ground floor is normally used as a byre in rural contexts, but in an urban setting it may be intended for one of a number of other non domestic uses.
Search the NHLE for: BASTLE (NON DEFENSIVE) - BATH HOUSE — A building equipped with facilities for bathing, and occasionally public baths.
Search the NHLE for: BATH HOUSE - BATHS — A building, usually open to the public, containing a number of areas for bathing. In the case of such a complex containing baths for swimming, also index with INDOOR or OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL.
Search the NHLE for: BATHS - BATTERY — A site where guns, mortars or searchlights are mounted. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BATTERY - BATTERY ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing the engines used to power equipment used by a searchlight, anti-aircraft or coastal battery.
Search the NHLE for: BATTERY ENGINE HOUSE - BATTERY MILL — Mill incorporating water-powered hammers for beating brass sheet, etc. into vessels, pots, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BATTERY MILL - BATTLE HEADQUARTERS — A concrete structure designed to be the headquarters for the coordination of an airfield's defences. Constructed partially underground it was only intended to be occupied during an attack.
Search the NHLE for: BATTLE HEADQUARTERS - BATTLE HEADQUARTERS (11008/41) — A concrete structure, based on drawing number (11008/41), intended to be the headquarters for the coordination of an airfield's defences. Constructed partially underground it was considered less vulnerable than the (3329/41).
Search the NHLE for: BATTLE HEADQUARTERS (11008/41) - BATTLE HEADQUARTERS (3329/41) — A structure, based on drawing number (3329/41), intended to be the headquarters for the coordination of an airfield's defences. Constructed above ground this design was found to be vulnerable and was superceded by the (11008/41).
Search the NHLE for: BATTLE HEADQUARTERS (3329/41) - BATTLEFIELD — The field or area of ground on which a battle or skirmish was fought.
Search the NHLE for: BATTLEFIELD - BATTLEFIELD DEBRIS — Ordnance, expended or otherwise, weapons, armour, personal effects, transport wreckage, or ship wreckage, left behind on the site of a terrestrial or naval battle.
Search the NHLE for: BATTLEFIELD DEBRIS - BATTLEFIELD WRECKAGE — Structural elements (parts of hull etc.) or fixtures and fittings (masts, etc.) lost during a naval engagement without incurring the actual loss of a ship. May also be used as a monument type for expended ammunition (e.g. shells, cannonballs).
Search the NHLE for: BATTLEFIELD WRECKAGE - BCF FLAT ROOF HUT — A hut consisting of a frame of reinforced concrete posts into which concrete panels were slotted. Designed by the British Concrete Federation during WWII to be resistant to bomb blasts & used for military accommodation, child nurseries and clinics etc.
Search the NHLE for: BCF FLAT ROOF HUT - BCF LIGHT HUT — A hut consisting of a frame of reinforced concrete posts into which panels of either pre cast concrete or corrugated asbestos could be slotted. Designed by the British Concrete Federation during WWII.
Search the NHLE for: BCF LIGHT HUT - BEACH DEFENCE — Obstacles such as scaffolding, barbed wire and concrete blocks or cylinders placed on a beach to impede the progress of enemy soldiers, vehicles or watercraft landing from the sea.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH DEFENCE - BEACH DEFENCE BATTERY — Gun battery built specifically to mount short range weapons to defend a beach against an attempted landing.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH DEFENCE BATTERY - BEACH DEFENCE LIGHT — A searchlight battery used to light a beach.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH DEFENCE LIGHT - BEACH HUT — A small timber one-roomed dwelling where holiday makers could rest after a day spent sunbathing, swimming and playing on the beach.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH HUT - BEACH SCAFFOLDING — Scaffolding erected on a beach and in the surf so as to prevent hostile forces from landing.
Search the NHLE for: BEACH SCAFFOLDING - BEACON — A site or structure on which a signal, especially a fire, could be placed as a warning or means of communication. Use for beacon sites or surviving beacon structures.
Search the NHLE for: BEACON - BEAM BRIDGE — A bridge in which the load is carried by a single beam, or beams, spanning the space between two supports.
Search the NHLE for: BEAM BRIDGE - BEAM ENGINE — A steam engine with a horizontal beam connecting the piston and crank.
Search the NHLE for: BEAM ENGINE - BEAM ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing a beam engine.
Search the NHLE for: BEAM ENGINE HOUSE - BEAM SLOT — A trench dug to contain a sill beam, a horizontal timber beam used as a foundation for the wall of a building. Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BEAM SLOT - BEAMWORK — Mediaeval-17th century mining method which involved exploiting an exposed surface vein. Rarely associated with waste.
Search the NHLE for: BEAMWORK - BEAR ENCLOSURE — An enclosure, usually within a zoo, designed to represent the natural environment for bears, including shelter. For bear baiting enclosures use BEAR PIT.
Search the NHLE for: BEAR ENCLOSURE - BEAR PIT — A pit where bears were housed for baiting and entertainment purposes. If not used for baiting use BEAR ENCLOSURE.
Search the NHLE for: BEAR PIT - BEARING FACTORY — A factory manufacturing bearings, including ball bearings for use in precision equipment.
Search the NHLE for: BEARING FACTORY - BEAUTY SALON — An establishment where beauty treatments and associated therapies are provided by professional practitioners.
Search the NHLE for: BEAUTY SALON - BED BURIAL — An inhumation burial in which the corpse is laid on a wooden bed, often surrounded by a collection of grave-goods. Anglo-Saxon rite of 7th century AD.
Search the NHLE for: BED BURIAL - BEDSTEAD WORKS — A building or site used for the production of frameworks of beds.
Search the NHLE for: BEDSTEAD WORKS - BEE BOLE — A recess in a stone or brick wall, usually bounding a garden or orchard, set two to three feet from the ground and facing south to south-east to catch the morning sun, in which a bee skep/beehive is placed. Often found in groupings of three to six.
Search the NHLE for: BEE BOLE - BEE GARDEN — A garden in which bees are kept.
Search the NHLE for: BEE GARDEN - BEE HOUSE — A building with shelves and/or stands for skeps or wooden hives, and flight holes through the walls for bees.
Search the NHLE for: BEE HOUSE - BEE SKEP — A portable beehive, often made of straw.
Search the NHLE for: BEE SKEP - BEEHIVE — A receptacle used as a home for bees, traditionally made of thick straw-work in the shape of a dome, but sometimes made of wood.
Search the NHLE for: BEEHIVE - BEER CELLAR — A building or subterranean structure used for the storage of beer.
Search the NHLE for: BEER CELLAR - BEER GARDEN — Garden area next to public house used for the comsumption of alcoholic beverages.
Search the NHLE for: BEER GARDEN - BEER HOUSE — A building licensed for the sale of beer.
Search the NHLE for: BEER HOUSE - BEER SHOP — A building where beer was sold or displayed.
Search the NHLE for: BEER SHOP - BEETLING MILL — A finishing process for cloth involving the pounding of the cloth with heavy weights.
Search the NHLE for: BEETLING MILL - BELFAST TRUSS AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A type of aircraft hangar from the closing years of WWI either of steel or wood utilising a type of lattice work roof support known as a Belfast Truss, which features diagonally interlaced pieces of thin pine. The roof appears as a smooth curve.
Search the NHLE for: BELFAST TRUSS AIRCRAFT HANGAR - BELISHA BEACON — Traditionally an amber-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white pole, acting as a signal to road users that there is a pedestrian crossing. Modern beacons may also include an outer ring of flashing LED lights.
Search the NHLE for: BELISHA BEACON - BELL BARROW — A round barrow in which the mound and ditch are separated from each other by a berm. The ditch may be accompanied by an external (or occasionally internal) bank.
Search the NHLE for: BELL BARROW - BELL CASTING PIT — A pit, sometimes found close to a church or cathedral, where bells were cast in medieval times.
Search the NHLE for: BELL CASTING PIT - BELL DISC BARROW — A form of round barrow intermediate between the Bell Barrow and the Disc Barrow. Only use where it is not possible to determine specific type.
Search the NHLE for: BELL DISC BARROW - BELL FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory where bells are made by casting molten metal into moulds.
Search the NHLE for: BELL FOUNDRY - BELL MAST — A tall pole topped with a bell used to summon the workforce to their place of work.
Search the NHLE for: BELL MAST - BELL PIT — A bell-shaped pit used in early coal mining. Use with functional type if known, eg. COAL WORKINGS.
Search the NHLE for: BELL PIT - BELL TOWER — A tower or turret in which bells are hung.
Search the NHLE for: BELL TOWER - BELLAND YARD WALL — A wall within a lead mine surrounding a dressing floor, where waste from mining and smelting is deposited, to protect livestock from entering and consuming contaminated material and becoming poisoned, or 'bellanded'.
Search the NHLE for: BELLAND YARD WALL - BELLITE WORKS — A works engaged principally in the manufacture of the explosive bellite.
Search the NHLE for: BELLITE WORKS - BELLMAN AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A type of temporary transportable aircraft hangar designed in 1936 by N.S. Bellman. It was designed for ease of installation, and was composed of light rolled steel sections.
Search the NHLE for: BELLMAN AIRCRAFT HANGAR - BELLOWS HOUSE — A building housing a set of bellows used to provide the blast of air to a blast furnace or similar installation.
Search the NHLE for: BELLOWS HOUSE - BELTING WORKS — A works site making and/or maintaining drive belts for industrial power.
Search the NHLE for: BELTING WORKS - BELVEDERE — A turret, tower or look out occupying a prominent position to provide a view, either a separate building, or part of a villa.
Search the NHLE for: BELVEDERE - BENCH — A long seat, usually made of stone or wood, with or without a back.
Search the NHLE for: BENCH - BENCH MARK — Mark, usually consisting of a horizontal line above an arrow, cut by the Ordnance Survey as part of the survey of Britain and referenced to a known height above mean sea level.
Search the NHLE for: BENCH MARK - BENEDICTINE ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Benedictine order dependent on a foreign mother house.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE ALIEN CELL - BENEDICTINE CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Benedictine order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE CELL - BENEDICTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — A mixed house of nuns and religious men of the Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - BENEDICTINE GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE GRANGE - BENEDICTINE MONASTERY — An abbey or priory for monks of the Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE MONASTERY - BENEDICTINE NUNNERY — An abbey or priory for nuns ofthe Benedictine order.
Search the NHLE for: BENEDICTINE NUNNERY - BERCEAU — A vault shaped trellis on which climbing plants are trained.
Search the NHLE for: BERCEAU - BERM — A horizontal surface separating the base of a rampart or earthwork from an associated ditch or moat. Can also refer to a continuously sloping bank of earth against a wall, as in a fortified city wall.
Search the NHLE for: BERM - BERTH — A place where a ship lies at a wharf. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BERTH - BESSEMER STEEL WORKS — Site where steel is produced from molten pig iron using a Bessemer Converter, a development from the cementation and crucible steel-making techniques .
Search the NHLE for: BESSEMER STEEL WORKS - BESSONNEAU AIRCRAFT HANGAR — The first transportable aircraft hangar developed by the RFC/RAF, which comprised a kit of timber and canvas that could be assembled in 48 hours. The canvas doors open one end only. Also known as Type H hangar.
Search the NHLE for: BESSONNEAU AIRCRAFT HANGAR - BET HAMIDRASH — A hall, often associated with a synagogue, used for studying the Torah and other religious texts.
Search the NHLE for: BET HAMIDRASH - BET TAHARA — A cleansing house associated with Jewish burial ceremonies
Search the NHLE for: BET TAHARA - BETTING OFFICE — An establishment where wagering and the placing of bets takes place.
Search the NHLE for: BETTING OFFICE - BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Bible Christians, a group who split from the Wesleyan Methodists to form their own church in the South West of England. They were amalgamated into the United Methodist Church in 1907.
Search the NHLE for: BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL - BICYCLE FACTORY — A factory for the assembly of bicycles.
Search the NHLE for: BICYCLE FACTORY - BICYCLE SHED — A shelter for the storage of bicycles.
Search the NHLE for: BICYCLE SHED - BIELD — A wall built to give shelter to sheep.
Search the NHLE for: BIELD - BIER HOUSE — A building containing a bier; a movable stand on which a corpse, often in a coffin, is placed prior to burial.
Search the NHLE for: BIER HOUSE - BILLET — Accommodation, often in private houses or lodgings, provided for military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: BILLET - BILLIARD HALL — A Hall where billiards was played.
Search the NHLE for: BILLIARD HALL - BILLIARD TABLE FACTORY — A factory manufacturing billiard tables.
Search the NHLE for: BILLIARD TABLE FACTORY - BINDERY — A bookbinding workshop.
Search the NHLE for: BINDERY - BINGO HALL — A place where the popular gambling game of bingo is played.
Search the NHLE for: BINGO HALL - BIRD BATH — An ornamental receptacle to catch rainwater for birds to drink from and bathe in. Sometimes mounted on a column or plinth.
Search the NHLE for: BIRD BATH - BIRD SANCTUARY — An area where birds are protected and bred.
Search the NHLE for: BIRD SANCTUARY - BISCUIT FACTORY — A factory where biscuits are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BISCUIT FACTORY - BISHOPS PALACE — The official residence of a bishop.
Search the NHLE for: BISHOPS PALACE - BISHOPS SUMMER PALACE — An official residence of a bishop used during the summer months.
Search the NHLE for: BISHOPS SUMMER PALACE - BISMUTH MINE — Mine for the extraction of bismuth, which usually occurs in small quantities in the ores of other metal ores, particularly lead, and some copper ores.
Search the NHLE for: BISMUTH MINE - BISON MOBILE PILLBOX — A flatbed lorry with a concrete defensive position fitted on the back enabling the "pillbox" to be driven to where it was most needed in the event of an airborne force landing on the airfield.
Search the NHLE for: BISON MOBILE PILLBOX - BIVALLATE HILLFORT — A hilltop enclosure bounded by a double line of ramparts.
Search the NHLE for: BIVALLATE HILLFORT - BLACKING FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the manufacture of shoe and leather polish, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BLACKING FACTORY - BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP — Place where a smith works iron. May be for small scale local use or within a larger industrial complex.
Search the NHLE for: BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP - BLANKET MILL — A factory where lengths of soft, woollen cloth, loosely woven to retain heat, used as a bed covering, were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BLANKET MILL - BLAST FURNACE — Smelting furnace into which compressed hot air is driven.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST FURNACE - BLAST PEN — A protective structure, often made of sandbags with reinforcement, designed to protect aircraft at airfields from enemy attack.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST PEN - BLAST SHELTER — A structure, usually of earth and concrete, and usually, although not always, subterranean, designed for protection against explosives.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST SHELTER - BLAST SHELTER (2360/41) — An unroofed structure, found on military airfields, protected by brick walls and earth banks for shelter during air raids.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST SHELTER (2360/41) - BLAST WALL — A reinforced wall designed to reflect the blast from an explosion. Often found associated with powder magazines, pillboxes and air raid shelters.
Search the NHLE for: BLAST WALL - BLEACH WORKS — A works where bleach is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BLEACH WORKS - BLEACHERY — Bleach works or bleach house for bleaching of textiles, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BLEACHERY - BLEACHFIELD — Large field or yard used to lay fabrics out ready for bleaching.
Search the NHLE for: BLEACHFIELD - BLENDER SHED — A building where threads of different qualities and colours are mixed together.
Search the NHLE for: BLENDER SHED - BLIND BACK HOUSE — A house with windows and doors on one side only; often built facing inwards onto a burgage plot, or sometimes on a steep slope, with no apertures on the uphill side.
Search the NHLE for: BLIND BACK HOUSE - BLIND BACK TERRACE — A terrace with windows and doors on one side only, often built facing inwards onto a burgage plot, or sometimes on a steep slope, with no apertures on the uphill side.
Search the NHLE for: BLIND BACK TERRACE - BLISTER AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A type of transportable aircraft hangar patented by Miskins and Sons in 1939. The arched hangar was constructed of steel or wooden ribs and generally clad in steel sheets. The hangar did not require any foundations and could be anchored by iron stakes.
Search the NHLE for: BLISTER AIRCRAFT HANGAR - BLOCK MILL — Building housing machinery used in the production of wooden pulley blocks for the rigging of sailing ships.
Search the NHLE for: BLOCK MILL - BLOCKHOUSE — A detached fort covering a strategic point.
Search the NHLE for: BLOCKHOUSE - BLOOD DONOR CENTRE — A centre in which the public donate blood that will be used for the care of patients in hospitals.
Search the NHLE for: BLOOD DONOR CENTRE - BLOOD LETTING HOUSE — Place for people who underwent regular blood letting.
Search the NHLE for: BLOOD LETTING HOUSE - BLOODHOUND MISSILE SITE — A missile base armed with the Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile. Bloodhounds were deployed to defend the launch sites of Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles.
Search the NHLE for: BLOODHOUND MISSILE SITE - BLOOMERY — A charcoal fired shaft furnace used for the direct reduction of iron ore to produce wrought iron.
Search the NHLE for: BLOOMERY - BLOWING ENGINE HOUSE — Steam engine, usually, driving a centrifugal fan to provide an air blast for a blast furnace.
Search the NHLE for: BLOWING ENGINE HOUSE - BLOWING HOUSE — A building containing a small stone cylindrical furnace, eg. used for tin smelting in Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: BLOWING HOUSE - BLUNGING PIT — Pit for mixing raw materials with water in the preparation of a clay body.
Search the NHLE for: BLUNGING PIT - BOAR PEN — A pen to separate the boar from the other pigs.
Search the NHLE for: BOAR PEN - BOARD MILL — A mill used for the production of cardboard and other similar products.
Search the NHLE for: BOARD MILL - BOARD SCHOOL — 19th century school administered by a school board.
Search the NHLE for: BOARD SCHOOL - BOARDING KENNEL — A house or range of buildings where domestic dogs and cats can be kept for a period.
Search the NHLE for: BOARDING KENNEL - BOARDING SCHOOL — A private school offering term time accommodation for pupils being taught there.
Search the NHLE for: BOARDING SCHOOL - BOAT HOUSE — A house or shelter for the storage and/or launching of boats.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT HOUSE - BOAT LIFT — A structure used for the lifting of boats and other water craft.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT LIFT - BOAT SHED — A light, mostly wooden errected structure serving as workshop for the building, storage, repair and maintenance of boats.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT SHED - BOAT STORE — A place where boats are stored.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT STORE - BOAT YARD — A place where boats are built and stored.
Search the NHLE for: BOAT YARD - BOATING LAKE — A lake, often artifical, in a park or open space, used for the recreational rowing and sailing of boats.
Search the NHLE for: BOATING LAKE - BOB SETTING — 18th-19th century stone-lined pit which held the balance bob for a pump-rod or flat-rod system. It includes examples where the surviving feature is a pillar for the bearing, rather than the pit.
Search the NHLE for: BOB SETTING - BOBBIN MILL — A mill manufacturing bobbins for the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: BOBBIN MILL - BOG BURIAL — A body which has been interred in boggy or marshy ground or other similarly waterlogged environment. Interment may have been deliberate or accidental.
Search the NHLE for: BOG BURIAL - BOG GARDEN — A soft, marshy garden, often peat-based where water- and peat-loving plants are grown.
Search the NHLE for: BOG GARDEN - BOILER HOUSE — A building housing a boiler, often connected to a steam engine house.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER HOUSE - BOILER ROOM — A room containing a boiler, used to provide heating.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER ROOM - BOILER SHOP — Workshop for the construction and maintenance of boilers within an industrial complex.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER SHOP - BOILER WORKS — Engineering works dedicated solely to the manufacture and repair of boilers.
Search the NHLE for: BOILER WORKS - BOILING HOUSE — A building, or part of a building for the boiling and preparation of animal feed, usually attached to pigsties.
Search the NHLE for: BOILING HOUSE - BOLEHILL — An early form of lead furnace, set upon a hilltop or crest to utilize winds in smelting.
Search the NHLE for: BOLEHILL - BOLLARD — A wooden, stone or iron post for securing things to or for preventing vehicular access to pedestrianized areas.
Search the NHLE for: BOLLARD - BOLT WORKS — A site where iron or steel bolts, and often their accompanying nuts, are manufactured. Sometimes referred to as NUT AND BOLT WORKS.
Search the NHLE for: BOLT WORKS - BOMB CRATER — A depression in the ground caused by the explosion of a mine or bombshell.
Search the NHLE for: BOMB CRATER - BOMB SITE — A site which has been bombed but where there is no crater, eg. bombed buildings.
Search the NHLE for: BOMB SITE - BOMB STORE — A complex of buildings and earthworks constructed for the storage of bombs and pyrotechnics.
Search the NHLE for: BOMB STORE - BOMBASINE MILL — A mill used for the manufacture of twilled dress material of worsted with or without a mixture of cotton or silk.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBASINE MILL - BOMBER COMMAND STATION — An airfield, and associated structures, used by one or more bomber squadrons.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBER COMMAND STATION - BOMBER SATELLITE STATION WATCH OFFICE — A watch office designed for bomber satellite station comprising a long, temporary brick hut with a watch office, operations room and crew briefing room.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBER SATELLITE STATION WATCH OFFICE - BOMBER STATION CONTROL TOWER (294/45) — A control tower designed for use on Very Heavy Bomber Station Airfields. Designed to Air Ministry drawing number 294/45 they were the first to be have a Visual Control Room
Search the NHLE for: BOMBER STATION CONTROL TOWER (294/45) - BOMBING DECOY — A system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used during WWII to provide a counterfeit target for enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING DECOY - BOMBING DECOY SITE — A site comprising a system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used during WWII to provide a counterfeit target for enemy aircraft. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING DECOY SITE - BOMBING RANGE — An area of land, with associated buildings and targets, used for practicing the dropping of bombs and other aspects of air warfare.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE - BOMBING RANGE MARKER — A range marker allowing bombers to locate the bombing range.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE MARKER - BOMBING RANGE OBSERVATION POST — Buildings and structures used to monitor the accuracy of bombs dropped on a bombing range
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE OBSERVATION POST - BOMBING RANGE TARGET — Any structure or object, used for the purpose of practice bombing.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE TARGET - BOMBING RANGE TOWER — An observation tower located on or near to a bombing range.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING RANGE TOWER - BOMBING TEACHER BUILDING — A building equipped with instruments and a flight simulator used to teach members of bomber crews how to correctly identify targets for bombing.
Search the NHLE for: BOMBING TEACHER BUILDING - BONDED WAREHOUSE — A warehouse, usually under the charge of CUSTOM HOUSE officials, in which goods were stored before the duty had been paid. Often found in dockyards, harbours, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BONDED WAREHOUSE - BONE MILL — A mill for grinding or crushing bones, in the process of making bone china, for example.
Search the NHLE for: BONE MILL - BONE WORKING SITE — A site used for the production of items derived from animal bones.
Search the NHLE for: BONE WORKING SITE - BONHOMMES MONASTERY — A residence of the Bonhommes brethren, who followed the Augustinian rule.
Search the NHLE for: BONHOMMES MONASTERY - BOOKING OFFICE — An establishment where tickets/reservations for events, journeys or entrance to a site can be purchased.
Search the NHLE for: BOOKING OFFICE - BOOM — A barrier, usually of wood or chain, stretched across the entrance to a harbour, port or anchorage, to control entry and/or limit the effect of the weather on the wave action.
Search the NHLE for: BOOM - BOOM TOWER — A tower at the mouth of the harbour to defend the end of the harbour boom.
Search the NHLE for: BOOM TOWER - BOOT SCRAPER — A small metal bar for the cleaning of dirty footwear before entering a house, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BOOT SCRAPER - BORDER — A strip of ground forming a fringe to a garden. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BORDER - BORING MILL — A building containing a machine tool for boring out large cylindrical holes in items such as steam engine cylinders, pump barrels, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BORING MILL - BORSTAL — An institution for the imprisonment and training of 16-21 year olds first established officially in 1908. Replaced by Youth Custody Centres in 1982.
Search the NHLE for: BORSTAL - BOSQUET — An ornamental grove, thicket or shrubbery pierced by walks.
Search the NHLE for: BOSQUET - BOTANIC GARDEN — A garden designed to provide living material for the study of botany and horticulture.
Search the NHLE for: BOTANIC GARDEN - BOTHY — Small building in which labourers, such as miners and tin workers. They are also associated with gardens where they provide on-site accommodation for gardeners and estate workers.
Search the NHLE for: BOTHY - BOTTLE KILN — A large, "bottle-shaped", oven of brick construction used in the baking or firing of pottery.
Search the NHLE for: BOTTLE KILN - BOTTLE WORKS — A site where the manufacture of glass bottles takes place.
Search the NHLE for: BOTTLE WORKS - BOTTLING PLANT — A plant for bottling manufactured goods, as opposed to a BOTTLE WORKS where bottles were made.
Search the NHLE for: BOTTLING PLANT - BOUNDARY — The limit to an area as defined on a map or by a marker of some form, eg. BOUNDARY WALL. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY - BOUNDARY BANK — An earthen bank that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY BANK - BOUNDARY CAIRN — A cairn used to indicate the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY CAIRN - BOUNDARY CROSS — A sculpted cross, or a cross incised into stone or trees, to mark a parish boundary.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY CROSS - BOUNDARY DITCH — A ditch that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY DITCH - BOUNDARY FENCE — A fence that indicates the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY FENCE - BOUNDARY MARKER — A marker of some form used to indicate the limit of an area or a piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY MARKER - BOUNDARY MOUND — An earthwork used as a boundary marker.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY MOUND - BOUNDARY PLATE — A plate, usually of wood or metal, used to indicate the limit of an area or piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY PLATE - BOUNDARY POST — A stone or metal post that indicates the limit of an area or piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY POST - BOUNDARY STONE — A stone that indicates the limit of an area or piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY STONE - BOUNDARY WALL — Any wall enclosing a building or complex of buildings, eg. prisons, dockyards, factories, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BOUNDARY WALL - BOUSE TEAM — Term for ore store/ore hopper, used particularly in Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
Search the NHLE for: BOUSE TEAM - BOWL BARROW — A round barrow featuring a mound surrounded by a ditch, with no intervening berm. The ditch may be accompanied by an external bank.
Search the NHLE for: BOWL BARROW - BOWL FURNACE — A small, open air bowl-shaped furnace, in which the flames are fanned by bellows. Used for both ferrous and non-ferrous smelting.
Search the NHLE for: BOWL FURNACE - BOWLING ALLEY — An indoor alley for playing bowls or skittles.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING ALLEY - BOWLING CLUB — A site, usually consisting of a bowling green and pavilion, frequented by lawn bowlers.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING CLUB - BOWLING GREEN — A closely mown piece of ground used for the game of lawn bowling.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING GREEN - BOWLING GREEN PAVILION — A building, often located in a park, where players can change and store equipment and from where spectators can watch the game.
Search the NHLE for: BOWLING GREEN PAVILION - BOX FRAME HOUSE — A timber framed house comprising horizontal and vertical timbers, forming the walls of the building and directly supporting the roof.
Search the NHLE for: BOX FRAME HOUSE - BOXING ARENA — An area, often including a platform, used for boxing competitions.
Search the NHLE for: BOXING ARENA - BOXING CLUB — A venue, with a boxing ring and associated facilities, which is used to train for and undertake amateur or professional boxing.
Search the NHLE for: BOXING CLUB - BRAKE HOUSE — A building housing the brakes for an incline railway or tramway.
Search the NHLE for: BRAKE HOUSE - BRASS FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory where brass articles are made by casting molten material into a mould.
Search the NHLE for: BRASS FOUNDRY - BRASS WORKS — A brass manufacturing complex incorporating battery mill furnaces, hammers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: BRASS WORKS - BREAKING DOWN HOUSE — A building within a gunpowder works complex, where the mill cake (pulverised and incorporated ingredients of gunpowder) was broken down. It was crushed or broken down by passing it between pairs of revolving gunmetal rollers in a breaking-down machine.
Search the NHLE for: BREAKING DOWN HOUSE - BREAKWATER — A structure which protects a beach or harbour by breaking the force of the waves.
Search the NHLE for: BREAKWATER - BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel in which the incoming water is directed onto the periphery below the top of the wheel.
Search the NHLE for: BREASTSHOT WHEEL - BREASTWORK — A temporary fieldwork, usually a few feet in height, constructed for defence against enemy forces.
Search the NHLE for: BREASTWORK - BRENNAN TORPEDO STATION — A land based installation armed with wire -guided and powered "Brennan torpedoes" which were in operation beween 1890 and 1906. These torpedoes were invented by Louis Philip Brennan. The stations were used to defend the coast from enemy shipping.
Search the NHLE for: BRENNAN TORPEDO STATION - BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for Brethren, a fundamentalist puritan sect founded in Ireland in the late 1820s and established in England in Plymouth in the 1830s.
Search the NHLE for: BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE - BREWERY — A commercial building, or buildings, used for the production of beer and other alcoholic drinks. Size may range from a single room such as a microbrewery in a public house to a complex of buildings including production line machinery for bottling.
Search the NHLE for: BREWERY - BREWHOUSE — An outbuilding containing brewing equipment, as opposed to a large commercial BREWERY. Often found in conjunction with public houses, country houses etc.
Search the NHLE for: BREWHOUSE - BREWING AND MALTING SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the process of brewing and malting.
Search the NHLE for: BREWING AND MALTING SITE - BRICK AND TILEMAKING SITE — Sites and structures associated with the manufacture of bricks and tiles. Includes sites associated with earth extraction and preparation.
Search the NHLE for: BRICK AND TILEMAKING SITE - BRICK DRYING SHED — A building in which newly made bricks are laid out to dry.
Search the NHLE for: BRICK DRYING SHED - BRICK KILN — A kiln or furnace for the firing of bricks.
Search the NHLE for: BRICK KILN - BRICKEARTH PIT — A pit used for the excavation of clay suitable for making bricks.
Search the NHLE for: BRICKEARTH PIT - BRICKFIELD — A site where clay is both extracted and fired to produce bricks.
Search the NHLE for: BRICKFIELD - BRICKWORKS — An industrial manufacturing complex producing bricks.
Search the NHLE for: BRICKWORKS - BRICKYARD — Small scale enterprise producing bricks but not at the same site as the extraction of clay.
Search the NHLE for: BRICKYARD - BRIDGE — A structure of wood, stone, iron, brick or concrete, etc, with one or more intervals under it to span a river or other space. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGE - BRIDGE CHAPEL — A place of worship situated at the end of, or built onto, the structure of a bridge. Often associated with bridge maintenance through the collection of donations, they may be endowed as a chantry for the celebration of Masses for the soul of the founder.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGE CHAPEL - BRIDGE KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a bridge keeper.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGE KEEPERS COTTAGE - BRIDGETTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — An abbey of the Bridgettine double order of nuns and religious men.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGETTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - BRIDGETTINE GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Bridgettine order.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGETTINE GRANGE - BRIDGETTINE NUNNERY — An abbey founded in 1415 for nuns of the Bridgettine order.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDGETTINE NUNNERY - BRIDLEWAY — A path, barred to vehicles, reserved for riding horses.
Search the NHLE for: BRIDLEWAY - BRINE CISTERN — A structure for the storage of brine prior to processing, by evaporation, to extract salt.
Search the NHLE for: BRINE CISTERN - BRINE KILN — A kiln used for extracting salt through the evaporation of salt water.
Search the NHLE for: BRINE KILN - BRINE PIT — A pit dug for the extraction of brine.
Search the NHLE for: BRINE PIT - BRINE PUMP — A pump used for moving brine (salt water).
Search the NHLE for: BRINE PUMP - BRINE SHAFT — A shaft cut to facilitate the extraction of salt from halite deposits by pumping water into the deposit and pumping out brine from which the salt is later extracted.
Search the NHLE for: BRINE SHAFT - BRITANNIA METAL WORKS — An alloy of tin, antimony and copper used as a replacement for pewter.
Search the NHLE for: BRITANNIA METAL WORKS - BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY SCHOOL — A school founded by the British and Foreign Society to provide non-denominational education. Usually built and supported by voluntary contributions.
Search the NHLE for: BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY SCHOOL - BRITISH CONCRETE FEDERATION HUT — A hut consisting of a frame of reinforced concrete posts into which panels could be slotted. Designed by the British Concrete Federation (BCF) during WWII.
Search the NHLE for: BRITISH CONCRETE FEDERATION HUT - BRITISH LEGION HALL — A place where members of the British Legion meet.
Search the NHLE for: BRITISH LEGION HALL - BRITISH RESTAURANT — A non-profit making restaurant administered by a Local Food Committee which provided customers with good quality and wholesome food which could be purchased without ration coupons.
Search the NHLE for: BRITISH RESTAURANT - BROAD RIDGE AND FURROW — Long parallel soil ridges in excess of 5 metres across separated by furrows, formed by using a heavy plough capable of turning the soil.
Search the NHLE for: BROAD RIDGE AND FURROW - BROADCASTING RADIO STATION — A building used for broadcasting radio programmes for public entertainment. Often includes recording studios, transmitters and offices. Use RADIO STATION for non-broadcasting uses eg. Military.
Search the NHLE for: BROADCASTING RADIO STATION - BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER — A structure, building or site housing equipment for transmitting radio or television signals.
Search the NHLE for: BROADCASTING TRANSMITTER - BROCH — An Iron Age round defended house, found mainly in the north and west of Scotland. Brochs have a tapering profile and thick, usually hollow dry stone walls which contain galleries, cells and a stairway, with guard cells at the entrance.
Search the NHLE for: BROCH - BRONZE FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory where bronze articles are made by casting molten metal into moulds.
Search the NHLE for: BRONZE FOUNDRY - BRONZE WORKING SITE — Use only where evidence is specific, ie. copper/tin alloy. For working of copper based alloys of unknown composition use COPPER WORKING SITE.
Search the NHLE for: BRONZE WORKING SITE - BROTHEL — An establishment in which prostitution is practiced.
Search the NHLE for: BROTHEL - BRUNTON CALCINER — A calciner used in arsenic production from the 1820s to the 1950s featuring a distinctive, slowly rotating hearth.
Search the NHLE for: BRUNTON CALCINER - BRUSH FACTORY — A factory where brushes are manufactured. Use for all types of brush.
Search the NHLE for: BRUSH FACTORY - BRUSHMAKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop where wooden brushes are manufactured on a small scale.
Search the NHLE for: BRUSHMAKERS WORKSHOP - BUDDHIST MONASTERY — A place of worship and residence for followers of Buddha.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDHIST MONASTERY - BUDDHIST TEMPLE — A place of worship for the followers of Buddha.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDHIST TEMPLE - BUDDLE — A stone-lined pit or tank, sometimes circular, for concentrating ores by sedimentation.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDLE - BUDDLE HOUSE — Building or structure housing a buddle.
Search the NHLE for: BUDDLE HOUSE - BUFFER DEPOT — A strategic food store, directly operated by, or on behalf of, the government. The stores were used to store a variety of foodstuffs. They were in operation from the end of the Second World War until the early 1990's.
Search the NHLE for: BUFFER DEPOT - BUFFET — A small eating and drinking establishment or refreshment bar.
Search the NHLE for: BUFFET - BUILDERS MERCHANTS — The premises of a builders merchant where building materials such as stone, cement, bricks, tiles and timber could be bought.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDERS MERCHANTS - BUILDERS YARD — An area where builders keep building materials such as brick, stone, planks and cement.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDERS YARD - BUILDING — A structure with a roof to provide shelter from the weather for occupants or contents. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDING - BUILDING COMPONENT — A structure which can be an area within a building, a separate building within a complex or a detached architectural component of a building
Search the NHLE for: BUILDING COMPONENT - BUILDING PLATFORM — A site where a building once stood as identified by a level area of ground, often compacted or made from man-made materials. Use only where specific function is unknown, otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: BUILDING PLATFORM - BULB STRIP — A small narrow rectilinear enclosure with high hedges boundaries for the cultivation and shelter of flowers, particularly Daffodils and Narcissi.
Search the NHLE for: BULB STRIP - BULL PEN — An enclosure for the containment of a bull.
Search the NHLE for: BULL PEN - BULL PIT — An enclosure used for baiting bulls.
Search the NHLE for: BULL PIT - BULLRING — An arena for bull-baiting, not a tethering ring.
Search the NHLE for: BULLRING - BULWARK — Unspecified defensive structure like a mound of earth, a rampart, an embankment or a wall-like fortification. Also used as an early term for a bastion or blockhouse. Use more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: BULWARK - BUNGALOW — A one-storey house.
Search the NHLE for: BUNGALOW - BUNKER — A structure, often built undergound, used for defence and co-ordination of military activity.
Search the NHLE for: BUNKER - BUOY — A floating, fixed marker used to indicate to a navigator a sea area to approach or avoid.
Search the NHLE for: BUOY - BUOY STORE — A building used to store navigational buoys.
Search the NHLE for: BUOY STORE - BURGAGE PLOT — A plot of land longer than it is wide, can include any structures on it. Typical of medieval towns.
Search the NHLE for: BURGAGE PLOT - BURGH — A civil and administrative area incorporating a town of medieval origin.
Search the NHLE for: BURGH - BURH — An Anglo-Saxon fortified town or other defended site, not necessarily urban.
Search the NHLE for: BURH - BURIAL — An interment of human or animal remains. Use specific type where known. If component use with wider site type. Use FUNERARY SITE for optimum retrieval in searches.
Search the NHLE for: BURIAL - BURIAL CAIRN — A stony mound containing or concealing deliberately deposited human remains. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BURIAL CAIRN - BURIAL PIT — A place where dead bodies are buried together. Often unconsecrated ground.
Search the NHLE for: BURIAL PIT - BURIAL VAULT — A built structure, generally below ground, designed for the interment of several burials over a period of time. Usually constructed with a door or sealed entrance to allow reopening for further burials.
Search the NHLE for: BURIAL VAULT - BURIED LAND SURFACE — A former ground surface buried beneath an earthwork or other sequence of deposits. (includes palaeosoils, turf lines)
Search the NHLE for: BURIED LAND SURFACE - BURIED SOIL HORIZON — A surface interpreted as a buried cultivation layer, for example an agriculturally cultivated field.
Search the NHLE for: BURIED SOIL HORIZON - BURNT MOUND — A mound of fire-cracked stones, normally accompanied by a trough or pit which may have been lined with wood, stone or clay. Assumed to be locations where heated stones were used to boil water primarily for cooking purposes.
Search the NHLE for: BURNT MOUND - BUS DEPOT — A building, with adjacent open areas, in which buses are maintained, usually having an extensive area free from upright columns or stanchions to permit overnight storage, repair bays, stores and an office.
Search the NHLE for: BUS DEPOT - BUS SHELTER — A structure providing protection against the weather at bus stops.
Search the NHLE for: BUS SHELTER - BUS STATION — A building and open area from which buses, usually those working local or regional services, begin or end their journeys.
Search the NHLE for: BUS STATION - BUSINESS CENTRE — A building providing business premises to companies or individuals, sometimes for short periods, in exchange for a membership fee.
Search the NHLE for: BUSINESS CENTRE - BUSINESS PARK — An area speciallly developed to accommodate commercial buildings.
Search the NHLE for: BUSINESS PARK - BUST — A piece of sculpture usually representing the head, shoulders and breast of a person.
Search the NHLE for: BUST - BUTCHERS SHOP — A shop where meat is sold. Often includes large cold stores for the refrigeration and storage of carcasses and a butchery where the carcass is cut up prior to sale.
Search the NHLE for: BUTCHERS SHOP - BUTCHERY SITE — A site used for the butchery of animals.
Search the NHLE for: BUTCHERY SITE - BUTLER COMBAT HANGAR — A mutiple role hangar for aircraft and general storage, manufactured in the USA as a kit for on-site assembly during WWII and post-war. It comprises a steel box frame and a canvas covering.
Search the NHLE for: BUTLER COMBAT HANGAR - BUTTER FACTORY — A group of buildings containing machinery for the production in bulk of butter or related dairy products.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTER FACTORY - BUTTER MARKET — An indoor or outdoor market where butter was sold.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTER MARKET - BUTTER WALK — An arcade providing shelter for perishable market goods which also provides protection from the elements for the occupants of the adjoining properties.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTER WALK - BUTTER WELL — A small stone structure, usually at a spring or bog, in which dairy products were kept cool on slate shelves.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTER WELL - BUTTERFLY GARDEN — A garden in which a variety of plants are grown to encourage butterflies.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTERFLY GARDEN - BUTTERY — A room used primarily for storing food and drink.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTERY - BUTTON MILL — A factory where buttons are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTON MILL - BUTTRESS DAM — A dam with a watertight upstream side, which may be flat or curved, supported by a series of buttresses on the downstream side.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTRESS DAM - BUTTS — A mound or structure on which an archery, musketry or artillery target is erected. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: BUTTS - BYPRODUCT RECOVERY OVEN — An oven used in the coal industry for the recovery of gas, tar and other by-products of the coking process. Late 19th century-20th century.
Search the NHLE for: BYPRODUCT RECOVERY OVEN
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- CABARET — A club often with a dance floor or small stage and featuring entertainment generally of an improvisational, satirical, or topical nature which can be watched by the clientele whilst they drink and dine.
Search the NHLE for: CABARET - CABINET — A small garden enclosure within a BOSQUET or surrounded by clipped hedges.
Search the NHLE for: CABINET - CABINETMAKERS — A building or workshop where fine furniture, often veneered, is made.
Search the NHLE for: CABINETMAKERS - CABLE FACTORY — A factory manufacturing electrical cables.
Search the NHLE for: CABLE FACTORY - CABLE INSULATION FACTORY — A factory manufacturing insulation material for electrical cables.
Search the NHLE for: CABLE INSULATION FACTORY - CABLE REPEATER OFFICE — A cross channel telegraph office.
Search the NHLE for: CABLE REPEATER OFFICE - CABLE STAYED BRIDGE — A bridge whose deck is directly supported from pylons by straight cables without vertical suspenders.
Search the NHLE for: CABLE STAYED BRIDGE - CABLEWAY — An aerial lift in which cabins are suspended from a continuous cable between two towers which hold the winding mechanism. The cable may be supported by towers or pylons.
Search the NHLE for: CABLEWAY - CABMENS SHELTER — A small, often weatherboarded, roadside house in which cab drivers could rest and take refreshments. Late 19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: CABMENS SHELTER - CAFE — A cheap eating and drinking establishment usually serving snacks and non-alcoholic drinks.
Search the NHLE for: CAFE - CAIRN — A monument featuring a bank or mound constructed primarily of stone. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRN - CAIRN ALIGNMENT — Long alignment of cairns lying between two large cairns; first recognized as a site type on Sourton Tor, Dartmoor.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRN ALIGNMENT - CAIRN CEMETERY — A group of cairns in close proximity which are predominantly funerary or ritual in nature.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRN CEMETERY - CAIRN CIRCLE — A circle of spaced upright boulders emerging from a low, hemispherical, stony mound. The boulders may lean outwards due to pressure from the cairn material.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRN CIRCLE - CAIRNFIELD — A group of cairns occurring within close proximity to each other. Use for instances where the majority are clearance cairns. Also index specific types where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAIRNFIELD - CAISSON — Floatable vessel used as a floodgate in docks.
Search the NHLE for: CAISSON - CALAMINE MILL — A mill used for the preparation and production of Calamine.
Search the NHLE for: CALAMINE MILL - CALAMINE MINE — Where secondary product use with major product and MINE, eg. LEAD MINE.
Search the NHLE for: CALAMINE MINE - CALCINATION CLAMP — A clamp in which alum shale was burnt in the initial stage of processing.
Search the NHLE for: CALCINATION CLAMP - CALCINER — A kiln for roasting ore.
Search the NHLE for: CALCINER - CALCINING KILN — A kiln in which the prolonged heating or roasting of materials to drive off water, volatiles and sulphur so that they may be reduced to a powder, was performed.
Search the NHLE for: CALCINING KILN - CALCITE MINE — A place where calcite is extracted using both quarrying and deeper mining techniques. Calcite/limestone is used for making glass, paper, photography, statues, building, and animal food.
Search the NHLE for: CALCITE MINE - CALENDER MILL — Finishing process for cloth, especially linen, running the cloth between heavy rollers.
Search the NHLE for: CALENDER MILL - CALF HOUSE — A building used to house calves.
Search the NHLE for: CALF HOUSE - CALICO MILL — Textile mill producing calico, ie. coarse, unbleached cotton cloth.
Search the NHLE for: CALICO MILL - CALICO PRINTING WORKS — A factory complex consisting of PRINTING SHOPS, COLOUR HOUSES, DYE HOUSES, etc, in which patterns are printed onto calico.
Search the NHLE for: CALICO PRINTING WORKS - CALLENDER HAMILTON HANGAR — Similar in design to the Callender Hangar but with a reduced height of 17ft. Built to Air Ministry drawing number 17346/40.
Search the NHLE for: CALLENDER HAMILTON HANGAR - CALLENDER HANGAR — A transportable hangar designed by Callender Cable and Construction to Air Ministry drawing number 6633/37. A steel box-girder framework with corrugated iron cladding and canvas doors it had a clear door height of 25ft.
Search the NHLE for: CALLENDER HANGAR - CALVARY — A representation of the crucifixion of Christ or related scenes as a sculpture in a churchyard, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CALVARY - CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Calvinistic Methodists, Welsh Methodists who split from the established church in 1811.
Search the NHLE for: CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPEL - CAMBER — Traditionally a dock where cambering, the bending of beams for shipbuilding, took place. Now used for a small dock.
Search the NHLE for: CAMBER - CAMEL HOUSE — A house used to accommodate camels, often found at a zoo or wildlife park.
Search the NHLE for: CAMEL HOUSE - CAMELLIA HOUSE — A 19th century glasshouse built specifically for the fostering of camellias.
Search the NHLE for: CAMELLIA HOUSE - CAMERA — A subsidiary form of preceptory provided with a chapel. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAMERA - CAMERA OBSCURA — A building or room in which images of outside objects are projected on to a screen from a long-focus lens using natural light.
Search the NHLE for: CAMERA OBSCURA - CAMOMILE LAWN — A lawn planted with camomile plants which when walked upon release a fragrant smell.
Search the NHLE for: CAMOMILE LAWN - CAMOMILE SEAT — A garden seat covered in clipped, camomile plants which release a fragrant smell when sat upon.
Search the NHLE for: CAMOMILE SEAT - CAMPSITE — An area of land used for camping. Often includes facilities for washing, catering and entertainment.
Search the NHLE for: CAMPSITE - CAMPUS — The grounds of an institution for higher education eg. a university, including the educational buildings, entertainment and sports facilities and student's halls of residence.
Search the NHLE for: CAMPUS - CANABAE LEGIONIS — A civilian settlement outside a Roman fort.
Search the NHLE for: CANABAE LEGIONIS - CANADIAN FORESTRY CORPS CAMP — A camp providing accommodation for members of the Canadian Forestry Corps along with facilities such as saw mills for the sawing and squaring of timber to create pit props, shoring, crates etc for the war effort.
Search the NHLE for: CANADIAN FORESTRY CORPS CAMP - CANADIAN PIPE MINE — A steel pipe driven into the ground at a shallow, oblique angle and packed with explosives. They were intended to be detonated on the approach of a hostile amroured vehicle or tank in order to create an obstacle directly in its path.
Search the NHLE for: CANADIAN PIPE MINE - CANAL — An artificial navigable waterway used for the transportation of goods. Nowadays also used for recreational purposes.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL - CANAL BASIN — An open area of water, usually artificial and enclosed by dock gates or locks, lined with wharves and warehouses, where barges, narrow boats and other canal vessels can load and unload goods and supplies.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL BASIN - CANAL BOAT YARD — A place where canal boats are built and maintained.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL BOAT YARD - CANAL BRIDGE — A bridge over a canal.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL BRIDGE - CANAL DOCK — An artificial area of open water, situated on a canal, enclosed by masonry and fitted with dock gates in which ships can be repaired, loaded/unloaded or berthed.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL DOCK - CANAL DOCKYARD — An enclosure containing a dock, boat yard, warehouse, etc, in which canal vessels are built and repaired, and all sorts of stores and merchandise for transportation brought together.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL DOCKYARD - CANAL FEEDER — A channel which feeds water from a reservoir into a canal when the water level gets low.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL FEEDER - CANAL GATEHOUSE — A gatehouse bridging a canal.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL GATEHOUSE - CANAL INCLINED PLANE — A prepared slope with rails on which boats can be transferred from one canal to another at a higher or lower level. The boats can either be floated in a caisson or carried in a cradle or sling.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL INCLINED PLANE - CANAL JUNCTION — A place where two artificial waterways meet each other.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL JUNCTION - CANAL LIFT — A massive structure designed to transfer canal boats between different canal or river navigations, eg. Anderton boat lift.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL LIFT - CANAL LOCK — A rectangular chamber of brick or stone with heavy wooden gates at either end equipped with sluices to let water in and out, thereby enabling a canal boat to be lowered or raised to a different level.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL LOCK - CANAL MILEPOST — A post set up alongside a canal to mark the miles to and from a place.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL MILEPOST - CANAL OFFICE — A building or room, where business and/or administrative activities to do with the canals was conducted.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL OFFICE - CANAL PORT — An inland settlement such as Runcorn, Ellesmere Port or Stourport, that combines docks and terminal facilities at the interface between land and canal transportation systems.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL PORT - CANAL RESERVOIR — A supply of water used to keep canals that were vulnerable to water shortage topped up.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL RESERVOIR - CANAL SLUICE — A channel for taking a rapidly flowing stream of water away from a canal lock, or away from the canal itself.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL SLUICE - CANAL TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings and structures associated with canal transport.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL TRANSPORT SITE - CANAL TUNNEL — A tunnel with a canal running through it.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL TUNNEL - CANAL TUNNEL PORTAL — An often stately and ornate entrance to a canal tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL TUNNEL PORTAL - CANAL WAREHOUSE — A large building, situated by or near a canal, used for the temporary storage of goods or merchandise awaiting transportation to or from the canal.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL WAREHOUSE - CANAL WHARF — A large wooden structure built alongside the edge of a canal where narrow boats may lie for the loading and unloading of goods.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL WHARF - CANAL WORKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a canal worker.
Search the NHLE for: CANAL WORKERS COTTAGE - CANCER HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of patients with cancer or related illnesses.
Search the NHLE for: CANCER HOSPITAL - CANDLE FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the manufacture of candles.
Search the NHLE for: CANDLE FACTORY - CANNING FACTORY — A factory where preserved food is canned.
Search the NHLE for: CANNING FACTORY - CANNON — A large mounted gun, now disused and placed in a prominent position as a piece of street furniture or as a "feature".
Search the NHLE for: CANNON - CANNON BOLLARD — A bollard made from, or in the form of, a cannon barrel.
Search the NHLE for: CANNON BOLLARD - CANNON BORING MILL — A building used for drilling out the bores of cannon and other military pieces.
Search the NHLE for: CANNON BORING MILL - CANNON FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory where the barrels of cannon are cast.
Search the NHLE for: CANNON FOUNDRY - CANOPIED TOMB — A tomb with a raised canopy over it.
Search the NHLE for: CANOPIED TOMB - CANTEEN — A self-service dining room, especially for workers/employees; also in institutions, such as schools, hospitals, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CANTEEN - CANTILEVER BRIDGE — A specialized form of truss bridge that extends or cantilevers from both sides of the pier, the inner 'arms' usually supporting a central span.
Search the NHLE for: CANTILEVER BRIDGE - CANTILEVER CRANE — A crane consisting of a lattice girder carried on a lattice tower forming a T-shaped structure. A hoist is carried along the girder by a 'crab', enabling the crane to perform a variety of tasks eg loading/unloading of ships.
Search the NHLE for: CANTILEVER CRANE - CANVAS WORKS — A site where canvas, coarse, unbleached cloth, made from hemp or flax, was manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CANVAS WORKS - CAPONIER — A covered passageway projecting into or across a ditch of a fortified place to provide flanking fire to the ditch in which it stands or for the purpose of sheltering communication with outworks.
Search the NHLE for: CAPONIER - CAPSTAN — An apparatus around which cables or hawsers are wound for hoisting anchors, lifting weights, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CAPSTAN - CAPSTAN HOUSE — A small building housing a mechanism used for winding a cable.
Search the NHLE for: CAPSTAN HOUSE - CAR FACTORY — A factory where cars are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CAR FACTORY - CAR PARK — A place where cars and other road vehicles may be parked and left.
Search the NHLE for: CAR PARK - CAR RAMP — An inclined concrete ramp on which cars can move from one level to another.
Search the NHLE for: CAR RAMP - CAR WASH — A facility where the exterior of a motor vehicle can be cleaned.
Search the NHLE for: CAR WASH - CARAVAN FACTORY — A factory manufactoring caravans.
Search the NHLE for: CARAVAN FACTORY - CARAVAN PARK — A camping place set aside for the use of caravans.
Search the NHLE for: CARAVAN PARK - CARBONISING SHED — Component part of a mungo and shoddy mill, where non-wool fibres from shredded material are destroyed by either soaking rags in an acid solution or rotating them in drums in a hot acidic gas followed by heat. The result is an all-wool product.
Search the NHLE for: CARBONISING SHED - CARDBOARD BOX FACTORY — A factory where packaging products, such as cardboard boxes, are produced.
Search the NHLE for: CARDBOARD BOX FACTORY - CARDING MILL — A small workshop, employing up to 10 men, working on hand-operated carding engines and hand jennies, spinning yarn for handloom weavers.
Search the NHLE for: CARDING MILL - CARE CENTRE — A centre providing emotional and practical support to those living with life-threatening illnesses.
Search the NHLE for: CARE CENTRE - CARE HOME — A short or long term residential home for people not requiring medical intervention or nursing care, usually for older people.
Search the NHLE for: CARE HOME - CARGO — Use for the remains of a cargo which have been accidentally lost at sea, or purposefully dumped, and which consist the only physical evidence of a vessel.
Search the NHLE for: CARGO - CARMELITE FRIARY — A house of friars, originally hermits from Mount Carmel. Also known as ' white friars'.
Search the NHLE for: CARMELITE FRIARY - CARMELITE NUNNERY — A site inhabited by a modern order of nuns, founded in 1900 at Lanherne, Cornwall, following Carmelite traditions.
Search the NHLE for: CARMELITE NUNNERY - CARPENTERS WORKSHOP — A place where products are manufactured from wood.
Search the NHLE for: CARPENTERS WORKSHOP - CARPET BED — A bed of low-growing foliage plants, all of an even height, arranged in patterns that resemble a carpet both in the intricacy of their design and in the uniformity of surface.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET BED - CARPET FACTORY — A factory where carpets are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET FACTORY - CARPET MANUFACTURING SITE — Includes any textile floor covering.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET MANUFACTURING SITE - CARPET MILL — A factory where carpets are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET MILL - CARPET WEAVERS WORKSHOP — A building where carpets and other floor furnishings were woven.
Search the NHLE for: CARPET WEAVERS WORKSHOP - CARRIAGE HOUSE — An outbuilding used for the storage and maintenance of horse-drawn carriages.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE HOUSE - CARRIAGE RAMP — A ramp or incline between differing levels constructed to allow carriages access.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE RAMP - CARRIAGE SPLASH — Purpose built area, incorporating water supply, for the cleaning of carriages, carts, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE SPLASH - CARRIAGE WORKS — A building or works in which carriages were built. Use RAILWAY CARRIAGE WORKS for sites making railway carriages.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGE WORKS - CARRIAGEWAY — The part of a road intended for vehicular traffic.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIAGEWAY - CARRIERS PREMISES — A site used by a carrier to accommodate his horses and vehicles and store goods awaiting transportation, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CARRIERS PREMISES - CART BURIAL — A high status Iron Age grave in which a two or four wheeled vehicle accompanies a frequently richly furnished inhumation burial. A barrow may overlie the grave.
Search the NHLE for: CART BURIAL - CART LOADING BAY — A structure, into which a cart can be drawn, to enable it to be loaded from above.
Search the NHLE for: CART LOADING BAY - CART SHED — A building used for housing, and protecting from the weather, carts, waggons and farm implements, often open-fronted.
Search the NHLE for: CART SHED - CARTERS YARD — Trading premises of a carter.
Search the NHLE for: CARTERS YARD - CARTHUSIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Carthusian order.
Search the NHLE for: CARTHUSIAN GRANGE - CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Carthusian monks.
Search the NHLE for: CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY - CARTRIDGE HOUSE — A component building of an explosives works where cartridges were filled with explosives with the aid of cartridging machines.
Search the NHLE for: CARTRIDGE HOUSE - CARVED STONE — A stone (including standing stones, natural boulders and rock outcrops) decorated with carved motifs.
Search the NHLE for: CARVED STONE - CARVING — A carved figure or design.
Search the NHLE for: CARVING - CARYATID — A column, in the form of a female figure, used to support an entablature.
Search the NHLE for: CARYATID - CASCADE — An artificial fall of water often taking the form of a water staircase.
Search the NHLE for: CASCADE - CASCADE HOUSE — An often ornate building housing the source of an ornamental cascade, eg. Chatsworth House.
Search the NHLE for: CASCADE HOUSE - CASEMATE — An explosive-proof vaulted chamber used for the storage or ordnance.
Search the NHLE for: CASEMATE - CASINO — A public music or dancing establishment often with facilities for gambling.
Search the NHLE for: CASINO - CASKET BURIAL — A Roman cremation burial in which the human cremated remains are placed inside or adjacent to a wooden casket, frequently decorated with lion-headed mounts and studs.
Search the NHLE for: CASKET BURIAL - CASKET TOMB — A grave marker in the form of a casket.
Search the NHLE for: CASKET TOMB - CASTING FLOOR — A floor area, covered in sand, onto which hot metal from a furnace is cast.
Search the NHLE for: CASTING FLOOR - CASTING HOUSE — Building or structure covering a casting floor or pit.
Search the NHLE for: CASTING HOUSE - CASTLE — A fortress and dwelling, usually medieval in origin, and often consisting of a keep, curtain wall and towers etc.
Search the NHLE for: CASTLE - CASUAL WARD BLOCK — A wing in a workhouse to accommodate vagrants overnight.
Search the NHLE for: CASUAL WARD BLOCK - CASUALTY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department, open 24 hours a day, for the immediate reception and treatment of emergency cases.
Search the NHLE for: CASUALTY DEPARTMENT - CATACOMB (FUNERARY) — A funerary site, either totally or partially underground, for the depositing of the dead. Often found in cemeteries in the form of a circular or semi-circular sunken area comprising of several galleries with vault entrances built into the side.
Search the NHLE for: CATACOMB (FUNERARY) - CATERING COLLEGE — A training college for chefs and other catering students.
Search the NHLE for: CATERING COLLEGE - CATHEDRAL — The principal church of a diocese in which the cathedra or bishop's throne is to be found.
Search the NHLE for: CATHEDRAL - CATHEDRAL CLOSE — An enclosed area of ground immediately surrounding a cathedral.
Search the NHLE for: CATHEDRAL CLOSE - CATHEDRAL PRECINCT — An area of ground immediately surrounding a cathedral.
Search the NHLE for: CATHEDRAL PRECINCT - CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH — A nonconformist church for the followers of Edward Irving.
Search the NHLE for: CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH - CATTLE DOCKS — Pens for housing cattle awaiting transportation.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE DOCKS - CATTLE GRID — A pit in a road or trackway covered with a grid, usually of metal poles (but can be of wood or stone) with sufficient space between the poles to prevent animals from crossing, without restricting access for vehicles and people.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE GRID - CATTLE PEN — An enclosure for cattle.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE PEN - CATTLE SHELTER — An open sided building known to have been used for sheltering cattle.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE SHELTER - CATTLE STALL — A stall, often within a cow house, where cattle are kept individually.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE STALL - CATTLE TROUGH — A long metal or stone vessel for cattle to drink water from.
Search the NHLE for: CATTLE TROUGH - CAUSEWAY — A road or pathway raised above surrounding low, wet or uneven ground.
Search the NHLE for: CAUSEWAY - CAUSEWAY BRIDGE — A bridge, carrying a footpath or road, usually across marshy or waterlogged ground.
Search the NHLE for: CAUSEWAY BRIDGE - CAUSEWAY CHAPEL — A chapel built on, or at the end of, a causeway.
Search the NHLE for: CAUSEWAY CHAPEL - CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE — A Neolithic monument comprising an irregularly circular enclosing ditch, interrupted by frequent causeways, and often accompanied by an internal bank, also causewayed.
Search the NHLE for: CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE - CAUSEWAYED RING DITCH — A monument comprising an irregularly circular enclosing ditch, interrupted by several causeways, surrounding a central circular area used for funerary activities, often concealed originally beneath an earthen mound. Index with barrow type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAUSEWAYED RING DITCH - CAVALRY BARRACKS — A barracks including stables and associated buildings housing a cavalry regiment.
Search the NHLE for: CAVALRY BARRACKS - CAVE — A subterranean feature entered from a hillside, cliff face, etc. A cave may have been used for occupation, storage, burial, refuse, or as a hide-away. Index with site type or objects where known.
Search the NHLE for: CAVE - CAVITATION TUNNEL — A tunnel used to test scale model propellers and hulls to consider the impact of caviation on wake, propulsion, vibration and noise.
Search the NHLE for: CAVITATION TUNNEL - CELESTINE WORKINGS — A site where Celestine or Celestite (a SrSO4), originally used in sugar beet refinement, is extracted from an open cast mine.
Search the NHLE for: CELESTINE WORKINGS - CELL — A monastic enclave dependent on a mother house.
Search the NHLE for: CELL - CELL BLOCK — A building containing a number of single roomed cells used for detaining prisoners.
Search the NHLE for: CELL BLOCK - CELLAR — A room or group of rooms usually below the ground level and usually under a building, often used for storing fuel, provisions or wines.
Search the NHLE for: CELLAR - CELLAR DWELLING — A basement or cellar, usually within a house, leased as a separate dwelling.
Search the NHLE for: CELLAR DWELLING - CELLARERS RANGE — Living and working quarters for the cellarer who was in charge of provisions and the running of the cellar.
Search the NHLE for: CELLARERS RANGE - CELTIC CROSS — A free-standing cross made of stone in the form of a cross with a ring surrounding the intersection. Often used as a grave marker
Search the NHLE for: CELTIC CROSS - CELTIC FIELD SYSTEM — A fairly regular system of small rectangular fields. Examples may date from the middle Bronze Age to the Roman period. The word 'Celtic' carries no chronological or cultural connotations in this context.
Search the NHLE for: CELTIC FIELD SYSTEM - CEMENT KILN — A kiln used to calcine the component parts of cement to remove excess water and other ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENT KILN - CEMENT MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of cement.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENT MANUFACTURING SITE - CEMENT SILO — Large storage structure for powdered cement.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENT SILO - CEMENT WORKS — A site where cement is manufactured for the building industry.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENT WORKS - CEMENTATION FURNACE — Large open hearth furnace often located inside a brick cone for use in steelmaking.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENTATION FURNACE - CEMENTATION STEEL WORKS — Production of steel by reheating wrought iron in charcoal filled containers.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENTATION STEEL WORKS - CEMENTSTONE MINE — A site where cementstone nodules are extracted under ground.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENTSTONE MINE - CEMENTSTONE QUARRY — A site where cementstone nodules are extracted.
Search the NHLE for: CEMENTSTONE QUARRY - CEMETERY — An area of ground, set apart for the burial of the dead.
Search the NHLE for: CEMETERY - CEMETERY CHAPEL — A place of worship within the grounds of a cemetery.
Search the NHLE for: CEMETERY CHAPEL - CEMETERY LODGE — A small house or cottage at the entrance to a cemetery, usually occupied by a caretaker or gardener, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CEMETERY LODGE - CENOTAPH — A sepulchral monument erected to commemorate a person or persons buried elsewhere.
Search the NHLE for: CENOTAPH - CENTRE OF RESISTANCE — An area, often a village, with fixed defences such as pillboxes, anti tank ditches and gun emplacements, designed to stop the advance of an enemy force and to hold out for an agreed period of time.
Search the NHLE for: CENTRE OF RESISTANCE - CENTURIAL STONE — An inscribed marker stone found on Hadrian's Wall.
Search the NHLE for: CENTURIAL STONE - CENTURIATED AREA — An area of land which retains distinctive large-scale rectilinear land divisions characteristic of Roman agriculture. Generally aligned with the course of a Roman road.
Search the NHLE for: CENTURIATED AREA - CEREAL FACTORY — A factory built for the production of breakfast cereals.
Search the NHLE for: CEREAL FACTORY - CEREMONIAL MAST — The rigging mast of a sailing ship erected as a monument. Used for naval displays.
Search the NHLE for: CEREMONIAL MAST - CEREMONIAL PLATFORM — A structure used for music, dance, ceremonial or civic events.
Search the NHLE for: CEREMONIAL PLATFORM - CESS PIT — A pit for the reception of night-soil and refuse.
Search the NHLE for: CESS PIT - CESS POOL — A covered pit into which raw sewage is discharged.
Search the NHLE for: CESS POOL - CHAFERY — Reheating of iron from a finery, for rolling or slitting.
Search the NHLE for: CHAFERY - CHAFF HOUSE — An area within a building (usually the barn or stable) for storing husks from the grain crop (chaff) for animal feed after it has been threshed and winnowed in the barn.
Search the NHLE for: CHAFF HOUSE - CHAIN HOME EXTRA LOW STATION — A radar station with sets operating on a wavelength of 10cm or less. They were highly accurate radars and gave better sea level coverage than the earlier Chain Home Low stations.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN HOME EXTRA LOW STATION - CHAIN HOME LOW STATION — A radar station with sets operating on a wavelength of 1.5m. Chain Home Low Stations were intended for use in locating low-flying aircraft but was also capable of detecting high-flying aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN HOME LOW STATION - CHAIN HOME STATION — Part of the WWII air defence radar system, whereby in 1939 a chain of radar stations were established along the south and east coast of Britain. The equipment was based upon apparatus developed for ionospheric research.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN HOME STATION - CHAIN LOCKER SHOP — A building for the storage, repair and maintenance of chains for lighthouses, lightships and lightbouys.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN LOCKER SHOP - CHAIN PROVING HOUSE — Building housing apparatus for testing chain links.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN PROVING HOUSE - CHAIN SHOP — A building in which wrought iron or steel chains were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN SHOP - CHAIN WORKS — A site where wrought iron or steel chains were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CHAIN WORKS - CHALET — A Swiss-styled house, usually with steeply pitched and projecting roof.
Search the NHLE for: CHALET - CHALK MINE — A site where chalk is extracted from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: CHALK MINE - CHALK PIT — A place from which chalk is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: CHALK PIT - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — A building housing a board organized to protect the interests of commerce.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - CHAMBERED BARROW — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within an earthen mound. Use more precise term where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED BARROW - CHAMBERED CAIRN — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within a mound of stones. Use more precise term where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED CAIRN - CHAMBERED GRAVE — Saxon rectangular burial chamber comprising a large sunken 'room' lined with wood. 6th and 7th century AD.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED GRAVE - CHAMBERED LONG BARROW — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within a rectangular or trapezoidal earthen mound.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED LONG BARROW - CHAMBERED LONG CAIRN — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a rectangular or trapezoidal stony mound which contains either a passage at one end with or without lateral chambers, or one or more smaller chambers entered from the side of the mound.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED LONG CAIRN - CHAMBERED ROUND BARROW — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within a circular or sub-circular earthen mound. See RELIGIOUS, RITUAL AND FUNERARY Class List for context.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED ROUND BARROW - CHAMBERED ROUND CAIRN — A Neolithic burial monument comprising an approximately circular stony mound which contains a stone-built chamber, with or without additional lateral chambers.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED ROUND CAIRN - CHAMBERED TOMB — A Neolithic burial monument comprising a stone-built chamber within a mound of earth or stone. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMBERED TOMB - CHAMOIS LEATHER WORKS — A factory or complex where chamois leather is produced using fish oils as the tanning agent.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMOIS LEATHER WORKS - CHAMPIONS FURNACE — A zinc smelting furnace patented by William Champion of Bristol in 1738 for the reduction of zinc from zinc oxide by means of condensing.
Search the NHLE for: CHAMPIONS FURNACE - CHANDLERY — Traditionally the premises of a chandler, a maker and seller of candles. Now, a shop for the retail of groceries and other provisions.
Search the NHLE for: CHANDLERY - CHANGING ROOMS — A building within a complex, such as a leisure centre, school, industrial site etc, often containing toilet and washing facilities, where individuals can change their clothes. For a changing room within a larger building, see Components.
Search the NHLE for: CHANGING ROOMS - CHANTRY CHAPEL — A chapel attached to, or inside, a church, endowed for the celebration of Masses for the soul of the founder.
Search the NHLE for: CHANTRY CHAPEL - CHANTRY COLLEGE — A building used for the education of, and as a residence for, chantry priests.
Search the NHLE for: CHANTRY COLLEGE - CHAPEL — A freestanding building, or a room or recess serving as a place of Christian worship in a church or other building. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPEL - CHAPEL OF EASE — A church built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPEL OF EASE - CHAPLAINCY — The residence and office of a chaplain.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPLAINCY - CHAPTER HOUSE — The building attached to a cathedral or collegiate church where the dean, prebendaries or monks and canons met for the transaction of business.
Search the NHLE for: CHAPTER HOUSE - CHARCOAL BURIAL — Inhumation rite in which charcoal is included with the buried corpse, possibly in an attempt to preserve the body. Thought to be associated with high status burials of the early medieval and medieval period.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL BURIAL - CHARCOAL BURNERS HUT — A crude shelter for persons engaged in the production of pure carbon by the controlled burning of wood and other organic materials.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL BURNERS HUT - CHARCOAL BURNERS SITE — A site, often in a woodland clearing, used for the production of pure carbon by the controlled burning of wood and other organic materials.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL BURNERS SITE - CHARCOAL BURNING PLATFORM — An area of flattened or compacted ground used for charcoal burning.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL BURNING PLATFORM - CHARCOAL PRODUCTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of charcoal.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL PRODUCTION SITE - CHARCOAL RETORT — Metal cylinder for producing charcoal using the retort method
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL RETORT - CHARCOAL STORE — A building, structure or site used for the storage of charcoal.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL STORE - CHARCOAL WORKS — A works using sealed retorts to produce charcoal. Wood distillates may be produced as byproducts of this process. They may be found at separate works or comprise part of a gunpowder works.
Search the NHLE for: CHARCOAL WORKS - CHARGE HOUSE — Workshop, as part of a gunpowder works complex, in which explosive is loaded into shells. Also used for expense magazine, where powder was stored between work processes.
Search the NHLE for: CHARGE HOUSE - CHARGING RAMP — An inclined ramp of earth, stone or brick used to deliver fuel to the firing hole of a kiln. Mediaeval and later.
Search the NHLE for: CHARGING RAMP - CHARITY SCHOOL — A school established by a charity.
Search the NHLE for: CHARITY SCHOOL - CHARNEL HOUSE — A building where the bones of the dead were stored.
Search the NHLE for: CHARNEL HOUSE - CHARNEL PIT — A pit used for the re-burial of disarticulated human remains from many individuals, occasionally displaying sorting of remains, eg. grouping of skulls or long bones. Distinct from mass burials which contain articulated skeletal remains.
Search the NHLE for: CHARNEL PIT - CHARTIST COLONY HOUSE — A dwelling house forming part of a Chartist Land Colony.
Search the NHLE for: CHARTIST COLONY HOUSE - CHARTIST COLONY SCHOOL — A school used by the children of settlers at a Chartist Colony.
Search the NHLE for: CHARTIST COLONY SCHOOL - CHARTIST LAND COLONY — A model village established by the chartists.
Search the NHLE for: CHARTIST LAND COLONY - CHATTRI — An umbrella-shaped pavilion, Indian in origin, constructed over a funerary site. Can also refer to a funerary monument or cenotaph constructed in this style.
Search the NHLE for: CHATTRI - CHAUFFEURS FLAT — The residence of a chauffeur or driver
Search the NHLE for: CHAUFFEURS FLAT - CHECKPOINT — A roadblock, usually manned by the Home Guard, where the credentials of civilians and military personnel where checked before allowing them to proceed.
Search the NHLE for: CHECKPOINT - CHEESE FACTORY — A factory where cheese is produced and processed.
Search the NHLE for: CHEESE FACTORY - CHEESE LOFT — An area within a building used for the storage of cheese.
Search the NHLE for: CHEESE LOFT - CHEESE MARKET — A market for the sale of cheeses.
Search the NHLE for: CHEESE MARKET - CHEMICAL INDUSTRY SITE — Sites for the manufacture of substances or items by controlled chemical reactions.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL INDUSTRY SITE - CHEMICAL PRODUCT SITE — Sites where controlled chemical reactions are employed to help manufacture domestic products.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL PRODUCT SITE - CHEMICAL PRODUCTION SITE — Sites used for the manufacture of chemicals used as the basis for complex chemical processes or products.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL PRODUCTION SITE - CHEMICAL STORE — A space used for the storage of chemicals.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL STORE - CHEMICAL WEAPONS RESEARCH STATION — Establishments responsible for the research into and the design, development and manufacture of chemical weapons
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL WEAPONS RESEARCH STATION - CHEMICAL WEAPONS STORE — A protected building or site used for the safe storage of chemical weapons
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL WEAPONS STORE - CHEMICAL WORKS — An industrial complex involved in the production of chemicals.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMICAL WORKS - CHEMISE — An outer wall of a castle or similar fortification.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMISE - CHEMISTS SHOP — A shop which dispenses medicinal drugs and other health-related items. Can include an area for the preparation and manufacture of medicines and other drugs.
Search the NHLE for: CHEMISTS SHOP - CHENILLE FACTORY — Factory for making Chenille a yarn produced by placing short lengths of yarn (the pile) between two core yarns (the core) these are then heated to set the pile in place.
Search the NHLE for: CHENILLE FACTORY - CHEST HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital treating patients with chest disorders and diseases, can be pre sanatoria.
Search the NHLE for: CHEST HOSPITAL - CHEST TOMB — A tomb designed in the form of a cist or stone box placed over a burial. Its outward form often reproduces the features of the classical sarcophagus or medieval effigy base.
Search the NHLE for: CHEST TOMB - CHEVAUX DE FRISE — A system of stones or wooden obstacles placed close together to impede the advance of enemy forces. Do not use for HILLFORT sites.
Search the NHLE for: CHEVAUX DE FRISE - CHICORY KILN — A structure used for the roasting or drying of chicory.
Search the NHLE for: CHICORY KILN - CHIEF INSTRUCTORS BLOCK (5740/36) — A central tower with a single-storey wing either side. The tower contained the watch office on the ground floor, observation room on the second with each wing containing an office for the Chief Flying Instructor or the officer commanding and their aides.
Search the NHLE for: CHIEF INSTRUCTORS BLOCK (5740/36) - CHILDRENS CARE HOME — A residential home for children with physical or learning disabilities, sensory impairment and/or mental health issues but who do not necessarily need medical attention.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS CARE HOME - CHILDRENS HOME — A residential establishment for the care and accommodation of children and young people.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS HOME - CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of children.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS HOSPITAL - CHILDRENS NURSING HOME — A residential home for children with physical and/or learning disabilities, sensory impairment and/or mental health issues who need medical intervention and/or care provided by registered nurses.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS NURSING HOME - CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND — An area of ground used for children to play on, often attached to a school.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS PLAYGROUND - CHILDRENS PLAYHOUSE — Building used for children to play in.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS PLAYHOUSE - CHILDRENS WARD — An area within a hospital where children are accommodated during the period of their medical or surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS WARD - CHILDRENS ZOO — A garden or park, with ancilliary buildings, in which young and domesticated animals are kept for public exhibition, especially for children. Children are given the opportunity to come into close contact and handle animals.
Search the NHLE for: CHILDRENS ZOO - CHIMNEY — Chimney used on an industrial or commercial site.
Search the NHLE for: CHIMNEY - CHINA CLAY DRIES — Building with underfloor kiln used for drying China Clay slurry prior to packing and transportation. Central feature of China Clay Works.
Search the NHLE for: CHINA CLAY DRIES - CHINA CLAY WORKS — Works producing a refractory clay, kaolin. An essential raw material of porcelain and some types of papermaking.
Search the NHLE for: CHINA CLAY WORKS - CHINA FACTORY — A factory where china products are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CHINA FACTORY - CHINA STONE MILL — A mill where china stone is grinded.
Search the NHLE for: CHINA STONE MILL - CHINESE GARDEN — An 18th century garden with a Chinese layout and ornaments.
Search the NHLE for: CHINESE GARDEN - CHINESE PAVILION — A light, ornamental structure in a garden, park or place of recreation built in the Chinese style.
Search the NHLE for: CHINESE PAVILION - CHITTING HOUSE — A building in which potatoes can sprout and germinate.
Search the NHLE for: CHITTING HOUSE - CHLOROPHYLL FACTORY — A factory used for the industrial manufacture of chlorophyll for medical purposes.
Search the NHLE for: CHLOROPHYLL FACTORY - CHOCOLATE FACTORY — A factory where chocolate products are produced.
Search the NHLE for: CHOCOLATE FACTORY - CHOCOLATE HOUSE — An establishment where chocolate was available as a beverage.
Search the NHLE for: CHOCOLATE HOUSE - CHOIR SCHOOL — A school associated with a cathedral or college originally intended to provide a general education for their choristers.
Search the NHLE for: CHOIR SCHOOL - CHOLERA BURIAL GROUND — A burial ground for victims of cholera.
Search the NHLE for: CHOLERA BURIAL GROUND - CHOPWOOD KILN — A type of kiln, usually built into banking, with a stone lining that was used to produce white coal which was used as fuel in the lead smelting process.
Search the NHLE for: CHOPWOOD KILN - CHRISTADELPHIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Christadelphians, a fundamentalist sect founded in America in the late 1840s who rejected the trinity and awaited the second coming of Christ.
Search the NHLE for: CHRISTADELPHIAN CHAPEL - CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HOSTEL — A hostel owned by a Christian association which provides cheap accommodation for young people.
Search the NHLE for: CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HOSTEL - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH — A place of worship for Christian Scientists, a sect founded in the mid-19th century in America who believe that God is the only reality and can bring healing to humanity.
Search the NHLE for: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH - CHURCH — A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH - CHURCH ARMY HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for followers of the Church Army, a body of trained lay evangelists devoted to evangelism and social work.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH ARMY HOUSE - CHURCH HALL — A hall associated with a church, used for holding functions, meetings and for conducting parish business.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH HALL - CHURCH HOUSE — House owned by the church, often used for meetings.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH HOUSE - CHURCH INSTITUTE — A building used by the church to promote Christianity through lectures, study, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH INSTITUTE - CHURCH OF PECULIAR PEOPLE — An offshoot of the Wesleyan movement founded in 1838 by John Banyard at Rochford, Essex. In 1956 it changed name to the Union of Evangelical Churches. There are 17 chapels in Essex and London.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH OF PECULIAR PEOPLE - CHURCH SCHOOL — A school run by a Christian church.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCH SCHOOL - CHURCHYARD — An area of ground belonging to a church, often used as a burial ground.
Search the NHLE for: CHURCHYARD - CHURN STAND — A wooden or stone plinth for depositing milk churns on.
Search the NHLE for: CHURN STAND - CIDER FACTORY — A factory concerned with the commercial manufacture of cider, as opposed to domestic production.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER FACTORY - CIDER HOUSE — A building, or part of a building, for the milling and pressing of cider apples to produce cider (or pears for perry) and for storing the drink in barrels.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER HOUSE - CIDER MILL — A HORSE GIN used for domestic cider manufacture, especially on farms.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER MILL - CIDER PRESS — A press used to extract the juice from apples, which was then used to make cider.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER PRESS - CIDER VAULT — A vault used for the storage of cider.
Search the NHLE for: CIDER VAULT - CINEMA — A building where people pay to see films and 'moving pictures'.
Search the NHLE for: CINEMA - CINERARY URN — Urn containing a cremation. Where component use with wider site type.
Search the NHLE for: CINERARY URN - CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE — A circular shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE - CIRCULAR KILN — A circular kiln or oven used in the manufacture of bricks. Common in Staffordshire in the 18th century.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCULAR KILN - CIRCULAR PLATFORM — A levelled area of ground, circular in shape, used as the base on which a monument was built.Sometimes raised, a platform is often the sole surviving evidence for a monument.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCULAR PLATFORM - CIRCULAR REDOUBT — A large circular defence work surrounded by a brick revetted ditch and sunken below a glacis. Usually built out of brick with the embrasures lined with granite blocks. Armed with ten or elven guns. Early 19th century as part of coastline defence.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCULAR REDOUBT - CIRCUMVALLATION — A rampart or other defensive entrenchment.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUMVALLATION - CIRCUS (RECREATIONAL) — A site where traditional public shows, in which the display of exotic animals, combined with feats of agility and comedy, were held.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUS (RECREATIONAL) - CIRCUS (ROMAN) — A rectangular arena, rounded at one end designed for chariot racing. The racetrack circled a central barrier (spina) constructed between two turning posts (metae). The only known example found in Britain, so far, is in Colchester.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUS (ROMAN) - CIRCUS (URBAN) — A circular range of houses dating from the 18th century, eg. John Wood's Circus at Bath.
Search the NHLE for: CIRCUS (URBAN) - CIST — Generally rectangular structure normally used for burial purposes, and formed from stone slabs set on edge, and covered by one or more horizontal slabs or capstones. Cists may be built on the surface or sunk into the ground.
Search the NHLE for: CIST - CIST GRAVE CEMETERY — A cemetery comprising inhumations or cremations interred in stone cists.
Search the NHLE for: CIST GRAVE CEMETERY - CISTERCIAN ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Cistercian order dependent on a foreign mother house.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN ALIEN CELL - CISTERCIAN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Cistercian order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN CELL - CISTERCIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Cistercian order.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN GRANGE - CISTERCIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Cistercian monks.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN MONASTERY - CISTERCIAN NUNNERY — An abbey or a priory of Cistercian nuns.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERCIAN NUNNERY - CISTERN — A covered tank in which rainwater is stored for use when required.
Search the NHLE for: CISTERN - CIVIC CENTRE — A building or building complex where municipal offices and other public buildings are situated.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIC CENTRE - CIVIL — Sites, buildings, structures etc associated with the civil administration of settlements & enforcement of the laws of the land. Includes local & central government, settlements granted by the crown or ruling administration does not manorial settlements.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL - CIVIL AIRPORT — A landing and taking off area for civil aircraft, usually with surfaced runways and aircraft maintenance and passenger facilities.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL AIRPORT - CIVIL DEFENCE BUILDING — A building used to coordinate civil defence in times of war. Can also be utilized as aid centres in times of national emergency.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE BUILDING - CIVIL DEFENCE GARAGE — A garage for the storage and maintenance of motor vehicles, such as ambluances and fire engines, used for civil defence purposes.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE GARAGE - CIVIL DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS — A building used for the daily administration of Civil Defence activities.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE HEADQUARTERS - CIVIL DEFENCE SITE — Sites and buildings used in the coordination of the defence of the civilian population during times of war. Could also be used during times of national emergency.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE SITE - CIVIL DEFENCE TRAINING CENTRE — A building or site used to train civilians and members of the services in the skills designed to protect the civilian population during times of war. Could also be used during times of national emergency.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE TRAINING CENTRE - CIVIL DEFENCE TRAINING GROUND — An area used for the training of personnel in civil defence procedures.
Search the NHLE for: CIVIL DEFENCE TRAINING GROUND - CIVITAS CAPITAL — A planned administrative capital for local government which provided amenities for the Roman and peregrine (non-Roman) inhabitants of the town.
Search the NHLE for: CIVITAS CAPITAL - CLAIM STONE — A marker stone erected to indicate a claim to the rights, usually mineral, of an area.
Search the NHLE for: CLAIM STONE - CLAMP — A temporary structure used for the firing of bricks or tiles. Unfired bricks or tiles were stacked upon a layer of fuel (usually wood) and then surrounded by a wall of old bricks and covered by a layer of mud or clay. The clamp was then fired.
Search the NHLE for: CLAMP - CLAMP KILN — A temporary kiln, in which the pots are stacked and baked in a pit underneath a bonfire.
Search the NHLE for: CLAMP KILN - CLAMP LIME KILN — A kiln in which lime is made by calcining limestone. This type of kiln usually consists of a circular bowl surrounded by pennanular banks with a funnel exit on the lower side. They normally survive as an earthwork. Superseded by Flare Kilns.
Search the NHLE for: CLAMP LIME KILN - CLAPPER BRIDGE — A simple form of stone slab bridge, particularly associated with South West England.
Search the NHLE for: CLAPPER BRIDGE - CLASSROOM — A room where a class of pupils is taught.
Search the NHLE for: CLASSROOM - CLAY DRAINAGE PIPE WORKS — A site where clay pipes used for drainage are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY DRAINAGE PIPE WORKS - CLAY EXTRACTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the extraction of clay.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY EXTRACTION SITE - CLAY MILL — A factory containing machinery for processing clay for the manufacture of bricks, tiles or pottery.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY MILL - CLAY MINE — A site where clay is mined from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY MINE - CLAY PIPE KILN — For the production of clay tobacco pipes.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY PIPE KILN - CLAY PIT — A place from which clay is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY PIT - CLAY PUDDLING PIT — A pit used for the containment of clay whilst it is mixed to the right consistency for brickmaking.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY PUDDLING PIT - CLAY STORE — Purpose-built structure with thick walls used to store clay before transportation.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY STORE - CLAY TOBACCO PIPE FACTORY — A factory where tobacco pipes made of clay are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY TOBACCO PIPE FACTORY - CLAY WORKINGS — A site where clay is extracted from the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: CLAY WORKINGS - CLAYING TRENCH — A trench dug through topsoil in an arable field in order to extract underlying clay which was then spread on the field and ploughed in to improve soil fertility. Usually found in peaty soil areas such as the Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire fenlands.
Search the NHLE for: CLAYING TRENCH - CLEARANCE — An area of ground which has been cleared of plants and other obstruction.
Search the NHLE for: CLEARANCE - CLEARANCE CAIRN — An irregularly constructed, generally unstructured, mound of stones. Often, but not necessarily, circular. Normally a by product of field clearance for agricultural purposes.
Search the NHLE for: CLEARANCE CAIRN - CLEARING HOUSE — A central office dealing with financial accounts.
Search the NHLE for: CLEARING HOUSE - CLERGY DAUGHTERS SCHOOL — 19th century school for the daughters of clergymen.
Search the NHLE for: CLERGY DAUGHTERS SCHOOL - CLERGY HOUSE — A residence for all clergy having the sole or subordinate charge of a living.
Search the NHLE for: CLERGY HOUSE - CLERICAL DWELLING — Residences of religious people and members of the clergy.
Search the NHLE for: CLERICAL DWELLING - CLIFF CASTLE — An enclosure created by constructing one or more lines of ramparts across a promontory which projects into the sea.
Search the NHLE for: CLIFF CASTLE - CLIFF RAILWAY — A railway, usually by the sea, linking the beach with the cliff top. Various mechanisms were used the most common being that the cars were attached to a cable and winding drum and were balanced so that one travelled up, as the other came down.
Search the NHLE for: CLIFF RAILWAY - CLIMBING WALL — An artificially constructed wall with recessed and projecting grips for hands and feet and places to attach ropes. Used for practising rock climbing. If the wall is situated within a sports centre use term from Components thesaurus.
Search the NHLE for: CLIMBING WALL - CLINIC — An institution, sometimes attached to a hospital, where patients may receive treatment or health checks.
Search the NHLE for: CLINIC - CLINKER MILL — A mill which ground clinker in the cement production process. During cement production a mixture of lime and clay is burnt which forms a clinker which is then ground into powder. When mixed with water it solidifies to hard cement.
Search the NHLE for: CLINKER MILL - CLOCK FACTORY — A factory manufacturing timepieces, including clocks and watches.
Search the NHLE for: CLOCK FACTORY - CLOCK SHOP — A commercial premises where clocks are sold and repaired.
Search the NHLE for: CLOCK SHOP - CLOCK TOWER — A tower built to display a large clock.
Search the NHLE for: CLOCK TOWER - CLOG MILL — A factory or site where wooden clogs are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CLOG MILL - CLOISTER — A covered walk, walled on one side and usually arcaded on the other, surrounding or partly surrounding an open area in a monastery or similar complex of Christian buildings.
Search the NHLE for: CLOISTER - CLOISTER GARTH — The open space surrounded by a cloister.
Search the NHLE for: CLOISTER GARTH - CLOSE DEFENCE BATTERY — A coastal battery designed for use in short range engagements with enemy vessels, minelayers, blockships ad torpedo craft.
Search the NHLE for: CLOSE DEFENCE BATTERY - CLOSED TRAINING PRISON — An institution for the detention of prisoners, surrounded by a wall and/or fence as a barrier to escape. The level of security depends on the category of inmate detained.
Search the NHLE for: CLOSED TRAINING PRISON - CLOTH CUTTERS COTTAGE — The residence of a cloth cutter.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH CUTTERS COTTAGE - CLOTH CUTTERS WORKSHOP — A place where processed cloth is cut for use as garments or soft furnishings, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH CUTTERS WORKSHOP - CLOTH DRESSING MILL — Cloth finishing process using machinery to raise the nap of the cloth before shearing.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH DRESSING MILL - CLOTH DRY HOUSE — A building or structure in which processed cloth is dried.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH DRY HOUSE - CLOTH HALL — A market hall where cloth merchants can show their wares and conduct business.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH HALL - CLOTH MARKET — An open market where cloth and other textiles can be traded.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH MARKET - CLOTH WAREHOUSE — A large building used for the storage of finished cloth.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTH WAREHOUSE - CLOTHES LINE ENCLOSURE — A small rectangular or sub circular area or areas bounded by an earthwork, ditch or similar boundary, where one side is formed by an existing linear boundary, forming a pattern reminiscent of clothes hanging from a washing line.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHES LINE ENCLOSURE - CLOTHIERS HOUSE — The residence of a clothier.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHIERS HOUSE - CLOTHING FACTORY — A large factory or series of workshops for the manufacture of clothing.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHING FACTORY - CLOTHING INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the manufacture of clothing.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHING INDUSTRY SITE - CLOTHING WORKSHOP — A workshop for the manufacture of clothing, eg. tailor's workshop.
Search the NHLE for: CLOTHING WORKSHOP - CLUB — A building used by an association of persons for social and recreational purposes or for the promotion of some common object.
Search the NHLE for: CLUB - CLUBHOUSE — A building occupied by a club or commonly used for club activities.
Search the NHLE for: CLUBHOUSE - CLUNIAC CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Cluniac order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC CELL - CLUNIAC GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Cluniac order.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC GRANGE - CLUNIAC MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Cluniac monks.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC MONASTERY - CLUNIAC NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Cluniac nuns.
Search the NHLE for: CLUNIAC NUNNERY - CLUSTER BLOCK — A multi-storey building in which individual blocks of flats cluster around a central service core.
Search the NHLE for: CLUSTER BLOCK - CLUSTER HOUSE — A group of four houses in quadruplex form within a single block, of approximately square plan and set in a spacious garden. Such houses were usually provided for supervisory or skilled workers within a textile factory.
Search the NHLE for: CLUSTER HOUSE - COACH HOUSE — An outbuilding where a horse-drawn carriage is kept.
Search the NHLE for: COACH HOUSE - COACH WORKS — Traditionally a building or site where stage coaches were built. Nowadays the term is applied to buildings used for the manufacturing of the body work and furnishings of motor vehicles and railway carriages.
Search the NHLE for: COACH WORKS - COACHING INN — A public house offering lodgings to the passengers, and stabling for the horses of stage coaches.
Search the NHLE for: COACHING INN - COACHING INN STABLE — A stable found at a coaching inn where horses are housed.
Search the NHLE for: COACHING INN STABLE - COACHMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a coachman.
Search the NHLE for: COACHMANS COTTAGE - COAL BUNKER — A structure used for the storage of coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL BUNKER - COAL CLEANING PLANT — A large building or structure where coal is washed, sized and graded before being sold.
Search the NHLE for: COAL CLEANING PLANT - COAL CRUSHER HOUSE — A structure housing machinery for crushing coal. Usually found at the pithead of a colliery or coal mine.
Search the NHLE for: COAL CRUSHER HOUSE - COAL DEPOT — A depot used for the unloading of coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL DEPOT - COAL DROP — A crane for lowering loaded coal waggons onto a ship.
Search the NHLE for: COAL DROP - COAL DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER — A cast-iron or stone boundary post, obelisk or plate found on roads, railways, canals etc around London marking the boundary within which a duty was payable on coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER - COAL EXCHANGE — A stock exchange dealing in the prices for coal and shares in coal production.
Search the NHLE for: COAL EXCHANGE - COAL FIRED POWER STATION — A coal-burning power station where domestic electricity for an area is produced, eg. Battersea Power Station, London.
Search the NHLE for: COAL FIRED POWER STATION - COAL GAS STRUCTURE — Buildings and structures associated with the production, processing and storage of coal gas.
Search the NHLE for: COAL GAS STRUCTURE - COAL HOLE COVER — A circular, metal or wooden cover, covering a hole in the pavement where domestic coal deliveries were dropped into a store below.
Search the NHLE for: COAL HOLE COVER - COAL JETTY — A raised platform for the unloading of coal from waggons or other containers.
Search the NHLE for: COAL JETTY - COAL MERCHANTS — The premises of a coal merchant where coal and other kinds of solid fuel can be bought.
Search the NHLE for: COAL MERCHANTS - COAL MINING SITE — Includes terms for components of site. See also terms in MINING INDUSTRY SITE grouping.
Search the NHLE for: COAL MINING SITE - COAL PREPARATION PLANT — A building or range of buildings used for the cleaning, crushing and loading of freshly mined coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL PREPARATION PLANT - COAL SCREEN — Series of wire mesh screens used for grading lumps of coal according to size.
Search the NHLE for: COAL SCREEN - COAL SHED — A building used to store coal.
Search the NHLE for: COAL SHED - COAL SHUTE — An embanked shute, often stone paved, allowing carts to tip their loads of coal from the road into a storage area.
Search the NHLE for: COAL SHUTE - COAL SLURRY TOWER — A building in which coal slurry, produced in the coal washing process, is recovered.
Search the NHLE for: COAL SLURRY TOWER - COAL STAGE — A structure for adding coal to railway locomotives usually by gravity from a higher level.
Search the NHLE for: COAL STAGE - COAL TIPPLER — Loading machinery tipping coal into railway wagons usually at a pithead.
Search the NHLE for: COAL TIPPLER - COAL WORKINGS — A site where coal is processed.
Search the NHLE for: COAL WORKINGS - COALING CRANE — A crane used for the refueling of coal-powered vessels.
Search the NHLE for: COALING CRANE - COALITE PLANT — Production of smokeless domestic fuel by roasting anthracite in a type of kiln.
Search the NHLE for: COALITE PLANT - COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY — A defensive battery positioned facing out to sea enabling the guns to be brought to bear on enemy shipping and amphibious craft.
Search the NHLE for: COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY - COAST ARTILLERY SEARCHLIGHT — A searchlight battery, which points out to sea, used to locate enemy shipping
Search the NHLE for: COAST ARTILLERY SEARCHLIGHT - COAST BATTERY GUN SITE — A gun emplacement associated with a coastal battery.
Search the NHLE for: COAST BATTERY GUN SITE - COAST DEFENCE CHAIN HOME LOW STATION — A radar station with sets operating on a wavelenght of 1.5m established to provide radar plotting of both shipping and aircraft movements.
Search the NHLE for: COAST DEFENCE CHAIN HOME LOW STATION - COAST LIGHT — A beacon used for coastal navigation. Many date from the Medieval period.
Search the NHLE for: COAST LIGHT - COASTAL BATTERY — A defensive gun battery positioned to face out to sea to fire on enemy ships and amphibious craft.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL BATTERY - COASTAL BATTERY COMMAND POST — A command post used to direct the guns of a coastal battery.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL BATTERY COMMAND POST - COASTAL DEFENCE SITE — Sites, buildings and structures for the defence of the coastline from sea and air invasion.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL DEFENCE SITE - COASTAL FISH WEIR — A structure comprising of two walls of stone or wood with nets or fish traps attached. Located in coastal waters, on shelving coastlines or in river estuaries they form large enclosures with a V or L shaped plan. The narrow point on the seaward side.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL FISH WEIR - COASTAL OBSERVATION POST — A building, situated on the coast, used for observing the movements of enemy shipping.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL OBSERVATION POST - COASTAL SALTWORKS — A site, building or factory where seawater is used in the production of salt.
Search the NHLE for: COASTAL SALTWORKS - COASTGUARD STATION — A building or group of buildings situated close to the sea used by coastguards to enable them to monitor the coastline.
Search the NHLE for: COASTGUARD STATION - COASTGUARD TOWER — A tower used as a watch tower by the coastguard. Often, though not always, built as part of a Coastguard Station.
Search the NHLE for: COASTGUARD TOWER - COASTGUARDS COTTAGE — The residence of a coastguard.
Search the NHLE for: COASTGUARDS COTTAGE - COAT OF ARMS — Includes crests, hatchments and supporters.
Search the NHLE for: COAT OF ARMS - COAXIAL FIELD SYSTEM — A field system with one prevailing axis of orientation, in which most field boundaries are either aligned with this axis or run at right angles to it.
Search the NHLE for: COAXIAL FIELD SYSTEM - COBALT MINE — A site where cobalt is mined
Search the NHLE for: COBALT MINE - COBBLE QUARRY — An excavation from which cobble stone is obtained.
Search the NHLE for: COBBLE QUARRY - COBBLED ROAD — A road or street covered with small, rounded cobble stones.
Search the NHLE for: COBBLED ROAD - COBBLERS STALL — A stall where a cobbler mends shoes.
Search the NHLE for: COBBLERS STALL - COBBLERS WORKSHOP — A place where shoes and boots are mended.
Search the NHLE for: COBBLERS WORKSHOP - COCKLE KILN — A kiln used to reduce the shells of shellfish to calcium carbonate.
Search the NHLE for: COCKLE KILN - COCKPIT — A pit or enclosed area used for cockfighting.
Search the NHLE for: COCKPIT - COE — A small hut erected over a mine shaft.
Search the NHLE for: COE - COFFEE BAR — A small, usually inexpensive, restaurant with a limited menu of light meals served at counters or tables.
Search the NHLE for: COFFEE BAR - COFFEE HOUSE — An establishment serving coffee and other refreshments and inexpensive foods. Between the 17th and 18th centuries they were also meeting places for political discussions.
Search the NHLE for: COFFEE HOUSE - COFFIN — A chest made of stone, wood or lead, used to enclose a dead body.
Search the NHLE for: COFFIN - COFFIN REST — A structure, often within a CHURCHYARD or LYCH GATE, on which a coffin could rest prior to burial.
Search the NHLE for: COFFIN REST - COFFIN STONE — A stone found on route to a churchyard on which the coffin is rested during transportation.
Search the NHLE for: COFFIN STONE - COINAGE HALL — Civil building in Cornwall and Devon for assay and sale of tin ingots.
Search the NHLE for: COINAGE HALL - COKE OVEN — Oven for roasting coal to drive off chemical constituents and reduce it to almost pure carbon, ie. coke.
Search the NHLE for: COKE OVEN - COKE QUENCHING TOWER — Water spraying tower for cooling coke after it emerges from the furnace.
Search the NHLE for: COKE QUENCHING TOWER - COLD STORE — A room or small building kept at low temperatures for the storage of perishable items, particularly food.
Search the NHLE for: COLD STORE - COLLAR FACTORY — A factory where collars, for shirts and other garments, are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: COLLAR FACTORY - COLLECTING BOX — For the collection of money by charities, churches, etc.
Search the NHLE for: COLLECTING BOX - COLLEGE — An establishment, often forming part of a university, for higher or tertiary education.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE - COLLEGE GARDEN — A formal garden consisting of lawns, walks and borders belonging to a college or university, eg. Oxford or Cambridge.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE GARDEN - COLLEGE LODGINGS — A place of accommodation at a college for staff and students.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE LODGINGS - COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS — A communal residence of secular priests and/or other clerics sometimes with the condition of learning and education attached.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE OF SECULAR PRIESTS - COLLEGE OF THE VICARS CHORAL — A communal residence of secular vicars whose duties included the education of choristers attached to cathedrals and collegiate churches.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGE OF THE VICARS CHORAL - COLLEGIATE CHAPEL — A chapel attached to or founded by a college.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGIATE CHAPEL - COLLEGIATE CHURCH — A church attached to or founded by a college.
Search the NHLE for: COLLEGIATE CHURCH - COLLIERY — A place where coal is mined.
Search the NHLE for: COLLIERY - COLLIERY INSTITUTE — A building where miners could improve their knowledge by attending lectures and using the reading room facilities.
Search the NHLE for: COLLIERY INSTITUTE - COLLIERY RAILWAY — Railway constructed specifically for the movement of coal around the pithead of a coal mine.
Search the NHLE for: COLLIERY RAILWAY - COLONIA — A town founded as an act of government by charter to house Roman or Latin citizens, usually retired legionaires who had been granted land within a territorium.
Search the NHLE for: COLONIA - COLONNADE — A row of columns supporting an entablature.
Search the NHLE for: COLONNADE - COLOUR HOUSE — A small dye works, often associated with a CALICO PRINTING WORKS.
Search the NHLE for: COLOUR HOUSE - COLOUR LOFT — A naval dockyard building used for the manufacture of flags.
Search the NHLE for: COLOUR LOFT - COLOUR MILL — Grinding mill for producing dyes and pigments from natural materials.
Search the NHLE for: COLOUR MILL - COLUMBARIUM — A wall with niches in a CREMATORIUM to display the urns containing ashes. Use only when related to funerary site.
Search the NHLE for: COLUMBARIUM - COLUMN — Use for free standing column.
Search the NHLE for: COLUMN - COMB MILL — A water-powered forge or wire mill which manufactured metal wire combs for use in the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: COMB MILL - COMBINATION BARN — A threshing barn which also houses farm animals and is somethimes used to stotre grain, house carts and other functions.
Search the NHLE for: COMBINATION BARN - COMBINATION FARM BUILDING — A multi-purpose farm building.
Search the NHLE for: COMBINATION FARM BUILDING - COMBINATION MILL — A flour mill using both stones and rollers to produce flour and, perhaps mainly from the stones, animal feed from grains other than wheat.
Search the NHLE for: COMBINATION MILL - COMBINED COURT CENTRE — A law court builidng established during the 1970's accommodating offices and courtrooms fro the Crown and County Courts.
Search the NHLE for: COMBINED COURT CENTRE - COMBING SHED — A textile building where the process of combing, a preparatory process for long wools, takes place.
Search the NHLE for: COMBING SHED - COMBING WORKS — A site where the process of combing, the preparatory process for long wools, takes place.
Search the NHLE for: COMBING WORKS - COMMAND POST — A military building from which the guns of a battery were directed.
Search the NHLE for: COMMAND POST - COMMEMORATIVE — Sites, buildings, structures, features & areas of land commemorating an historical event, person or animal.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE - COMMEMORATIVE BRASS — A brass plaque, usually on the ground rather than a wall fixture, commemorating a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE BRASS - COMMEMORATIVE GARDEN — A garden created to commemorate a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE GARDEN - COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT — A building, structure or landscape created to commemorate a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT - COMMEMORATIVE STONE — A stone commemorating a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: COMMEMORATIVE STONE - COMMENTARY TOWER — A large structure, found at sports stadiums, from where television or radio broadcasts are made of the sporting events.
Search the NHLE for: COMMENTARY TOWER - COMMERCIAL — Sites, buildings, structures & features related to the sale, exchange &/or storage of goods or services. Includes commercially operated catering establishments & lodging premises.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL - COMMERCIAL ART GALLERY — A building in which works of art are displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL ART GALLERY - COMMERCIAL COLLEGE — A college where subjects relating to trade and commerce are taught.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL COLLEGE - COMMERCIAL OFFICE — The administrative office of a commercial concern.
Search the NHLE for: COMMERCIAL OFFICE - COMMISSARY — A supermarket for American military personnel, the National Guard and the Reserves and their immediate family, usually sited on a military installation throughout the world. Use term only in conjunction with an American military base.
Search the NHLE for: COMMISSARY - COMMON LAND — Unenclosed wasteland, forest and pasture used in common by the community.
Search the NHLE for: COMMON LAND - COMMUNAL BAKEHOUSE — A bakehouse built in association with a group of dwellings who shared the baking facilities. Often found in model settlements.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNAL BAKEHOUSE - COMMUNE — A place where a group of people live together sharing accomodation and goods, forming their own community based upon common ideals.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNE - COMMUNICATION TRENCH — A trench, usually linking two or more rows of trenches, enabling the conveyance of messages or equipment safely from one trench to another.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNICATION TRENCH - COMMUNICATIONS — Sites, buildings, structures & features associated with the transmission & receiving of information. Includes signalling, broadcasting & telecommunications; does not include transport except where there is a specific connection with communication.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNICATIONS - COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING — A building, usually housing electrical or electronic equipment, used for gathering and disseminating information. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING - COMMUNITY CENTRE — A place providing social, recreational, and educational facilities for a neighbourhood.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNITY CENTRE - COMMUNITY GARDEN — A garden maintained by, and for the benefit of, a community.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNITY GARDEN - COMMUNITY KITCHEN — A kitchen set up, specifically during World War Two, to serve food to members of the public, especially families whose homes had succumbed to enemy bombing.
Search the NHLE for: COMMUNITY KITCHEN - COMPOSITE FRAMED BUILDING — A modern building system in which both steel and concrete are utilized together to carry the load in ways that neither material predominates over the other. There are many varieties e. g. a steel frame surrounding a concrete core.
Search the NHLE for: COMPOSITE FRAMED BUILDING - COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE — A steam engine that uses the same steam successively to drive pistons in high and then low pressure cylinders.
Search the NHLE for: COMPOUND STEAM ENGINE - COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL — A usually large school providing courses for children of all abilities, between the ages of eleven and sixteen.
Search the NHLE for: COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL - COMPRESSOR HOUSE — A type of engine house creating power by means of compressed air, typically associated with collieries where it is used for raising coal.
Search the NHLE for: COMPRESSOR HOUSE - COMPUTER CENTRE — A building housing computers and information technology equippment e.g. for a business, factory or other instituion.
Search the NHLE for: COMPUTER CENTRE - CONCENTRIC CASTLE — A castle surrounded by two or more lines of walled fortifications.
Search the NHLE for: CONCENTRIC CASTLE - CONCERT HALL — An establishment where musical performances take place.
Search the NHLE for: CONCERT HALL - CONCRETE FRAMED BUILDING — A modern building in which the load is carried by a reinforced concrete framework. Use for reinforced concrete buildings.
Search the NHLE for: CONCRETE FRAMED BUILDING - CONCRETE WORKS — A site where concrete and concrete products are manufactured from a mixture of cement and aggregate.
Search the NHLE for: CONCRETE WORKS - CONDENSER — An apparatus used for the process of condensing: the conversion of vapour into a liquid.
Search the NHLE for: CONDENSER - CONDENSERY — A building for the manufacture of condensed milk.
Search the NHLE for: CONDENSERY - CONDENSING CHIMNEY — A tall chimney terminating a CONDENSING FLUE, used to extract metal from the smoke produced by a lead smelter.
Search the NHLE for: CONDENSING CHIMNEY - CONDENSING FLUE — A stone channel sunk into the ground, employed from the mid-19th century, to carry away gases produced during smelting.
Search the NHLE for: CONDENSING FLUE - CONDUIT — A pipe or channel for conveying water or other liquids.
Search the NHLE for: CONDUIT - CONDUIT HEAD — A head of water raised in a conduit system.
Search the NHLE for: CONDUIT HEAD - CONDUIT HOUSE — A small building built over the end of a water conduit or spring.
Search the NHLE for: CONDUIT HOUSE - CONFECTIONERS SHOP — A place, often including a BAKERY, where sweetmeats and pastries are sold.
Search the NHLE for: CONFECTIONERS SHOP - CONFECTIONERY WORKS — A site where products containing sugar or honey, such as cakes, sweets, crystallized fruits or jam, were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CONFECTIONERY WORKS - CONFERENCE CENTRE — A purpose-built, or modified, building where organizations and associations meet for presentations and consultation.
Search the NHLE for: CONFERENCE CENTRE - CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Congregational Church. These churches, the first of which was founded in 1616 in Southwark, practised self government. Most of them were merged to form the United Reformed Church in 1972.
Search the NHLE for: CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL - CONSERVATORY — A glasshouse used to grow and display tender decorative plants. May be either an extension to a house or freestanding.
Search the NHLE for: CONSERVATORY - CONSISTORY COURT — A bishop's court for ecclesiastical causes and offences, formerly having wider jurisdiction in matters of moral discipline.
Search the NHLE for: CONSISTORY COURT - CONSOL SHELTER — A small, steel shelter designed for use as a firewatchers post during an air raid.
Search the NHLE for: CONSOL SHELTER - CONSTABLES OFFICE — The premises of a police officer for a parish or township who was appointed to act as a conservator of the peace within the district.
Search the NHLE for: CONSTABLES OFFICE - CONSTRUCTION CAMP — Temporary settlement relating to the construction of railways, viaducts, dams, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CONSTRUCTION CAMP - CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS — Debris consisting of excess construction material used in the building of a nearby site or structure. If unsure of whether debris is from construction or demolition, index with both terms.
Search the NHLE for: CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS - CONSTRUCTION TRENCH — A trench dug in order to receive the foundations of a structure such as a stone wall etc.
Search the NHLE for: CONSTRUCTION TRENCH - CONSTRUCTION WORKS — A site associated with the large scale construction of buildings or items manufactured by the building industry.
Search the NHLE for: CONSTRUCTION WORKS - CONSULATE — The residence or official premises of a consul, the official appointed by a state to protect its citizens and commercial interests in a foreign state.
Search the NHLE for: CONSULATE - CONTAINER BERTH — An area of a port, dock or harbour where a container vessel docks to take on or unload its containers.
Search the NHLE for: CONTAINER BERTH - CONTAINER TERMINAL — An area of a port, dock or harbour where cargo vessels can load and unload large storage containers. May include a rail terminal for containers which have been transported to the port by rail.
Search the NHLE for: CONTAINER TERMINAL - CONTINUOUS JETTY HOUSE — A jettied house where the overhanging upper storey runs along the entire length of one side.
Search the NHLE for: CONTINUOUS JETTY HOUSE - CONTRACTED INHUMATION — A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is interred, usually on its side, with the knees brought up against the chest. This is a more extreme form of crouched inhumation.
Search the NHLE for: CONTRACTED INHUMATION - CONTROL ROOM — A room or building housing the controls to a mechanized system, eg. in a power station, airport, etc.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL ROOM - CONTROL TOWER — A high building at an airport from which air traffic is controlled by radio.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL TOWER - CONTROL TOWER (3860/42) — A three-storey RNAS control tower, incorporating meteorological office on the ground floor and an air watch office on the second floor.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL TOWER (3860/42) - CONTROL TOWER (5223A/51) — Central two-storeyed tower surmounted by an octagonal glazed control room giving a 360 degree view. Flanked by single-storey wings.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL TOWER (5223A/51) - CONTROL TOWER (566/42) — A four-storey RNAS control tower. The first floor contained offices for the commander flying and meteorological offices and the upper two floors, in the form of a central tower, provided offices for air traffic control.
Search the NHLE for: CONTROL TOWER (566/42) - CONVALESCENT HOME — An establishment where patients can rest and recover after an operation or illness.
Search the NHLE for: CONVALESCENT HOME - CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL — A hospital where patients can rest and recover after an operation or illness. Medical facilities for treatment are also available.
Search the NHLE for: CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL - CONVENT SCHOOL — A school conducted by members of a convent.
Search the NHLE for: CONVENT SCHOOL - CONVEYOR — A mechanism used to transport minerals or granulated materials.
Search the NHLE for: CONVEYOR - COOKHOUSE — A camp kitchen, usually associated with the military.
Search the NHLE for: COOKHOUSE - COOKING PIT — A pit which shows evidence for having been used for cooking. Often contains charcoal, burnt bone fragments etc.
Search the NHLE for: COOKING PIT - COOKS FAN HOUSE — A building housing a steam driven ventilation fan used in mines
Search the NHLE for: COOKS FAN HOUSE - COOLING POND — A pond used for dissipating heat by evaporation from steam engine condensate. Mid 19th century to mid 20th century.
Search the NHLE for: COOLING POND - COOLING ROOM — A processing house or room in a brewery.
Search the NHLE for: COOLING ROOM - COOLING TOWER — Wooden or ferro-concrete tower for cooling waste, hot water from a power station. The water cascades from the top of the tower to a pond in the bottom.
Search the NHLE for: COOLING TOWER - COOPERAGE — A barrel-making workshop or factory, found in conjunction with a number of industries.
Search the NHLE for: COOPERAGE - COOPERATIVE STORE — A store belonging to a cooperative society.
Search the NHLE for: COOPERATIVE STORE - COPPER MINE — Where several minerals produced, use with other products and MINE, eg. ARSENIC MINE.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER MINE - COPPER ROOM — A room containing copper or steel vessels in which hops are added to the basic beer mixture.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER ROOM - COPPER WORKING SITE — A site where copper or copper based alloys are produced by smelting copper ore.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER WORKING SITE - COPPER WORKINGS — A site where copper ore is extracted directly from the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER WORKINGS - COPPER WORKS — A site or establishment for the casting and refining of metallic copper.
Search the NHLE for: COPPER WORKS - COPPERAS WORKS — A works used for the production of copperas, a green iron sulphate which is used as a fixative in the dyeing process.
Search the NHLE for: COPPERAS WORKS - COPPICE — A managed small wood or thicket of underwood grown to be periodically cut to encourage new growth providing smaller timber.
Search the NHLE for: COPPICE - COPPICE BARN — Open sided barn for the storage of wood produced by the periodic cutting of small trees.
Search the NHLE for: COPPICE BARN - COPROLITE WORKINGS — An open pit from which coprolites or phosphatic nodules were extracted. Commonly found in the Fens and East Anglia coprolites were ground up and used as fertilizer.
Search the NHLE for: COPROLITE WORKINGS - CORBEILLE — A flower bed, usually circular and convex in form, edged with wicker basketwork, iron hoops or terracotta.
Search the NHLE for: CORBEILLE - CORD RIG — Narrow ridges representing the surviving surface traces of later prehistoric cultivation.
Search the NHLE for: CORD RIG - CORDITE DOUGH STORE — A building in which cordite dough is stored before extrusion.
Search the NHLE for: CORDITE DOUGH STORE - CORDITE FACTORY — A factory principally engaged in the manufacture of the propellant explosive cordite.
Search the NHLE for: CORDITE FACTORY - CORDITE INCORPORATING HOUSE — A building in which cordite paste is blended with the solvent acetone and Vaseline to form a cordite dough.
Search the NHLE for: CORDITE INCORPORATING HOUSE - CORK FACTORY — A building or complex where corks and stoppers are made for use in bottling.
Search the NHLE for: CORK FACTORY - CORK PROCESSING WORKS — A building or complex where cork is treated and processed to be used in various products.
Search the NHLE for: CORK PROCESSING WORKS - CORN DRYING KILN — A building found in conjunction with a WATERMILL, used for the drying of corn after harvesting, with a slatted drying floor set above a kiln.
Search the NHLE for: CORN DRYING KILN - CORN DRYING OVEN — A heated stone, brick or iron chamber used for drying corn.
Search the NHLE for: CORN DRYING OVEN - CORN EXCHANGE — A building where samples of corn were sold or auctioned during the early to mid 19th century. When not in use, between market days, the buildings were used as public halls.
Search the NHLE for: CORN EXCHANGE - CORN MILL — A mill for grinding corn. Use with power type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CORN MILL - CORNING HOUSE — A processing house containing equipment for sieving caked gunpowder to produce graded granules.
Search the NHLE for: CORNING HOUSE - CORNISH HEDGE — A stone faced earth bank, usually with a concave batter, and with the base the same width as its height and the top half the width of the base. Vegetation usually grows out of the top. Found mainly in Cornwall, but also elsewhere in the Atlantic Arc.
Search the NHLE for: CORNISH HEDGE - CORONATION STONE — A stone on which a monarch traditionally sat during the coronation ceremony.
Search the NHLE for: CORONATION STONE - CORONERS COURT — A building where an officer of a county, district or municipality acting as a representative of the Crown holds inquests, including deaths through violence or accident and treasure trove.
Search the NHLE for: CORONERS COURT - CORPSE REST — A place, where a corpse could be laid whilst being carried on its way to a burial, to allow the bearers to rest.
Search the NHLE for: CORPSE REST - CORPSE ROAD — A road, used traditionally for the transportation of a corpse to a place of burial.
Search the NHLE for: CORPSE ROAD - CORRODY HOUSE — Accommodation given rent-free along with or as part of a corrody, which is a provision of an annual allowance of food and money by a religious house to an individual, usually in return for service or by purchase. Term used until mid 16th century AD.
Search the NHLE for: CORRODY HOUSE - COSMETICS FACTORY — A factory manufacturing personal hygiene and beauty products
Search the NHLE for: COSMETICS FACTORY - COTTAGE FACTORY — Three storey house with a topshop; machinery powered by shafting through the upper floor.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE FACTORY - COTTAGE GARDEN — An informal garden attached to a cottage where flowers, vegetables and fruit trees are grown.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE GARDEN - COTTAGE HOME — Accommodation used as an alternative to the workhouse following several Poor Law Acts. Modelled on continental examples and first erected at the end of the 1860s, it is based on the idea of a "village" of small houses accommodating a small group.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE HOME - COTTAGE HOSPITAL — Usually a rural hospital with up to 25 beds. Can include small pre-Cranleigh institutions, eg: dispensaries with in-patients.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE HOSPITAL - COTTAGE ORNEE — A rustic building of picturesque design.
Search the NHLE for: COTTAGE ORNEE - COTTON EXCHANGE — A building in which the buying of raw cotton and finished goods took place.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON EXCHANGE - COTTON MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the manufacture of cotton.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON MANUFACTURING SITE - COTTON MILL — Usually a cotton spinning factory, although some mills have weaving sheds attached, in which case the end product is completed cloth, not yarn only.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON MILL - COTTON WASTE WORKS — A works where cotton waste is stored or processed.
Search the NHLE for: COTTON WASTE WORKS - COTTON WORKSHOP — A workshop used in the manufacture and preparation of cotton
Search the NHLE for: COTTON WORKSHOP - COUNCIL FLAT — A council-owned single apartment.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL FLAT - COUNCIL FLATS — A council-owned block of flats.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL FLATS - COUNCIL HOUSE — A house built by a local authority.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL HOUSE - COUNCIL HOUSING ESTATE — A housing estate comprised of housing stock owned and let by a local authority.
Search the NHLE for: COUNCIL HOUSING ESTATE - COUNTER BOMBARDMENT BATTERY — A coastal battery used for delivering fire at long distance thus forcing a warship threatening or bombarding shore installations to withdraw out of range.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTER BOMBARDMENT BATTERY - COUNTERMEASURES STATION — A radio station set up to broadcast signals aimed at 'bending' or altering German navigation transmissions.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTERMEASURES STATION - COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDONS CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, a Calvinistic Methodist sect founded in the 1740s by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDONS CHAPEL - COUNTING HOUSE — An accounts office, especially within an industrial or commercial complex.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTING HOUSE - COUNTRY CLUB — A building, usually in a rural setting, with a range of facilities for the use of members.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTRY CLUB - COUNTRY ESTATE — An area of privately owned land attached to, and incorporating, a country house and associated buildings.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTRY ESTATE - COUNTRY HOUSE — The rural residence of a country gentleman.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTRY HOUSE - COUNTRY PARK — An area of managed countryside designated for visitors to enjoy recreations, such as walking specified parks and trails, in a rural environment. Often provides public facilities such as parking, toilets, cafes and visitor information.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTRY PARK - COUNTY BOUNDARY — The limit line of a county.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTY BOUNDARY - COUNTY COURT — A court established in England and Wales by Parliament in 1846 to decide minor civil disputes.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTY COURT - COUNTY HALL — A building from which the administration of a county is carried out by the County Council. It is also, historically, the site where the county quarter sessions and assizes were held.
Search the NHLE for: COUNTY HALL - COURERY — Subsidiary settlement of lay brothers attached to some Carthusian monasteries.
Search the NHLE for: COURERY - COURT HOUSE — A building in which a judicial court is held.
Search the NHLE for: COURT HOUSE - COURT OF REQUESTS — A local civil court first established during the 17th Century by local Acts of Parliament to deal with minor cases of debt. Based on a model established during the reign of Henry VII.
Search the NHLE for: COURT OF REQUESTS - COURT ROOM — A hall or chamber in which justice is administered.
Search the NHLE for: COURT ROOM - COURTIERS HOUSE — A house in which a member of the Royal Court lives.
Search the NHLE for: COURTIERS HOUSE - COURTYARD — An uncovered area, surrounded or partially surrounded by buildings.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD - COURTYARD HOUSE — A building or buildings ranged around a courtyard on at least three sides. They occur in the Iron Age, as well as being an influential plan type of house from the 15th century onwards. Index with appropriate period.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD HOUSE - COURTYARD INN — An inn, with an integral courtyard, for the lodging and entertainment of travellers. Often with open galleried wings overlooking the courtyard.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD INN - COURTYARD PLAN — A farmstead where the working buildings are arranged around a yard.
Search the NHLE for: COURTYARD PLAN - COVE — Prehistoric structure consisting of three or more standing stones in close proximity to each other, forming an unroofed approximately rectangular structure open in one direction.
Search the NHLE for: COVE - COVER PLATE — A cover consisting of a plate for covering over or closing in a chamber or receptacle.
Search the NHLE for: COVER PLATE - COVERED WAY — A path that is roofed over.
Search the NHLE for: COVERED WAY - COVERED WELL — A well with a superstructure, either partially or wholly enclosed with an access door, designed to protect the water source.
Search the NHLE for: COVERED WELL - COVERED YARD — A covered area of ground attached to a building.
Search the NHLE for: COVERED YARD - COW HOUSE — A building in which cattle are housed overnight, normally tethered in stalls.
Search the NHLE for: COW HOUSE - CRAFT CENTRE — A centre for the teaching of crafts.
Search the NHLE for: CRAFT CENTRE - CRAFT INDUSTRY SITE — Site of small scale industrial production often involving hand work and craft skills.
Search the NHLE for: CRAFT INDUSTRY SITE - CRANE — A large, metal or wooden structure, used for raising, lowering and moving heavy objects. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CRANE - CRANE HOUSE — A component part of a treadmill crane, the shed is used to enclose the treadwheel.
Search the NHLE for: CRANE HOUSE - CRANEWHEEL — A tread-wheel by which a crane was formerly worked.
Search the NHLE for: CRANEWHEEL - CRANNOG — An island, partly or wholly artificial, built up by dumping timber, earth and stones onto a lake or river bed. Often revetted with timber piles or palisade.
Search the NHLE for: CRANNOG - CRATEMAKERS SHOP — Workshop for producing crates, particularly for the packing of pottery.
Search the NHLE for: CRATEMAKERS SHOP - CRAZING MILL — Mill for fine grinding of tin ore between millstones.
Search the NHLE for: CRAZING MILL - CRECHE — A nursery for infants, where they are taken care of while their mothers are at work.
Search the NHLE for: CRECHE - CREMATION — A funeral rite in which the human body is burnt, usually on a pyre, leaving fragmentary charred or completely combusted remains. Often found buried, occasionally in a container associated with grave goods.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION - CREMATION BURIAL — The site of the formal burial of cremated bone, sometimes 'urned' in a vessel or casket of glass, wood or, more commonly, ceramic.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION BURIAL - CREMATION CEMETERY — A cemetery comprising exclusively cremated human remains, some or all of which may be contained within pottery vessels.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION CEMETERY - CREMATION GRAVE — An intrusive feature cut for the purpose of containing a cremation burial within it.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION GRAVE - CREMATION PIT — A pit over which a corpse has been cremated on a pyre into which the remains and debris, and sometime grave goods, collapse and are buried. Generally confined to the Roman period.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATION PIT - CREMATORIUM — A building or site where bodies are burnt, and the ashes collected for burial or dispersal.
Search the NHLE for: CREMATORIUM - CREOSOTE WORKS — A factory or complex of buildings where creosote oil is produced. Creosote oil is distilled from coal tar and used as a wood preservative.
Search the NHLE for: CREOSOTE WORKS - CREPE MILL — A textile mill where crepe is manufactured.Crepe is a fine cloth particularly silk or mixture of silk and cotton.
Search the NHLE for: CREPE MILL - CRESCENT — A row of houses whose facade in plan follows the concave arc of a circle or ellipse, eg. The Royal Crescent, Bath.
Search the NHLE for: CRESCENT - CREW BRIEFING ROOM — A type of military building associated with military airfields, where air crews were briefed for missions. The room could be a seperate building or part of an operations block and are built of varying types of temporary brick or nissen hut constructions.
Search the NHLE for: CREW BRIEFING ROOM - CREW YARD — Open yard for keeping cattle in during winter. Used from the mid-14th century in drier, Eastern, arable counties.
Search the NHLE for: CREW YARD - CRICKET CENTRE — A purpose built indoor cricket facility for training and playing matches
Search the NHLE for: CRICKET CENTRE - CRICKET GROUND — The entire playing area and associated buildings upon which the game of cricket is played.
Search the NHLE for: CRICKET GROUND - CRICKET PAVILION — A building adjoining a cricket pitch with facilities for players and spectators.
Search the NHLE for: CRICKET PAVILION - CRICKET PITCH — An area of grass, marked out for use in the game of cricket.
Search the NHLE for: CRICKET PITCH - CROFT — An enclosed piece of land adjoining a house.
Search the NHLE for: CROFT - CROQUET LAWN — A closely mown lawn used for the game of croquet.
Search the NHLE for: CROQUET LAWN - CROQUET SHED — A small garden building used to store equipment used in the game of croquet.
Search the NHLE for: CROQUET SHED - CROSS — A free-standing structure, in the form of a cross (+), symbolizing the structure on which Jesus Christ was crucified and sacred to the Christian faith. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS - CROSS DYKE — A linear earthwork, usually a bank accompanied by a ditch, which runs across rather than along an area or ridge of higher ground.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS DYKE - CROSS INCISED STONE — A stone with a cross carved into the surface.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS INCISED STONE - CROSS PASSAGE HOUSE — A house in which a passage runs across the building, usually adjacent to a hall, between front and back entrance doors.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS PASSAGE HOUSE - CROSS SLAB — A slab of stone, either standing or recumbent, inscribed with a cross. Usually found in association with burials.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS SLAB - CROSS WING HOUSE — A house with a range at the end of it, at right angles to the main range.
Search the NHLE for: CROSS WING HOUSE - CROSSING KEEPERS COTTAGE — A house for the keeper of a level crossing on a railway.
Search the NHLE for: CROSSING KEEPERS COTTAGE - CROSSROADS — A road junction where two (or occasionally more) roads cross each other.
Search the NHLE for: CROSSROADS - CROUCHED INHUMATION — A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is interred, usually on its side, with hip and knee joints bent through an angle of more than 90 degrees.
Search the NHLE for: CROUCHED INHUMATION - CROW — A multipurpose hut constructed from stone and turf, covering a square or polygonal plan. It has drystone walls and a slightly corbelled roof, usually topped with slabs. Can be either free-standing or embedded in a Cornish hedge. Particular to Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: CROW - CROWN COURT — A court of criminal, and limited civil, jurisdiction in England and Wales. Established in 1972 to replace the Assize Court, following legislation in 1971.
Search the NHLE for: CROWN COURT - CRUCIBLE FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the manufacture of crucibles.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCIBLE FACTORY - CRUCIBLE FURNACE — A furnace composed of two fire brick boxes: the fire was in the lower box and the upper box held the crucibles. Used in the manufacture of steel.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCIBLE FURNACE - CRUCIBLE STEEL WORKS — Production of high quality steel by reheating cementation steel in a refractory crucible.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCIBLE STEEL WORKS - CRUCK BARN — A barn in which a pair of curved timbers form a bowed A-frame which supports the roof independently of the walls.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCK BARN - CRUCK HOUSE — A house in which a pair of curved timbers form a bowed A-frame which supports the roof independently of the walls.
Search the NHLE for: CRUCK HOUSE - CRUSHING CIRCLE — Horse powered ore crusher, consisting of a stone wheel running over a circular iron or stone bed.
Search the NHLE for: CRUSHING CIRCLE - CRUSHING FLOOR — An area used for crushing mineral ore or stone. Often includes mechanically powered ore crushers.
Search the NHLE for: CRUSHING FLOOR - CRUSHING MILL — A building containing mechanically powered ore crushers or rollers.
Search the NHLE for: CRUSHING MILL - CRYPT — A vault, often located under a chancel or chancel aisle, containing an altar and usually used for burial.
Search the NHLE for: CRYPT - CTESIPHON HUT — A concrete arched military hut constructed by pouring concrete over hessian cloth that had been stretched over a temporary steel framework. Semi circular in section usually with end walls of brick. Designed by the Waller Housing Corp in 1943.
Search the NHLE for: CTESIPHON HUT - CUBICLE BLOCK — Block for the treatment of separate diseases.
Search the NHLE for: CUBICLE BLOCK - CUL DE SAC — A passage or road closed to traffic at one end.
Search the NHLE for: CUL DE SAC - CULTIVATION MARKS — Manmade marks or earthworks which provide evidence for agricultural cultivation.
Search the NHLE for: CULTIVATION MARKS - CULTIVATION TERRACE — An area of land, usually on a slope, which has been built up to provide a flat surface for the cultivation of crops.
Search the NHLE for: CULTIVATION TERRACE - CULVERT — A drainage structure that extends across and beneath roadways, canals or embankments.
Search the NHLE for: CULVERT - CUP AND RING MARKED STONE — A stone, either in situ or part of a monument, bearing one or more small, roughly hemispherical depressions surrounded by a concentric arrangement of annular or pennanular grooves. More complex designs may also occur.
Search the NHLE for: CUP AND RING MARKED STONE - CUP MARKED STONE — A stone, either in situ or part of a monument, bearing one or more small, roughly hemispherical depressions, generally created by chipping or pecking.
Search the NHLE for: CUP MARKED STONE - CUPELLATION FURNACE — A furnace used for the refining of precious metals. eg. the separation of silver from argentiferous lead.
Search the NHLE for: CUPELLATION FURNACE - CUPOLA FURNACE — A furnace used for melting metals for casting or for heating shot.
Search the NHLE for: CUPOLA FURNACE - CURFEW BELL TOWER — A tower containing a curfew bell. The bell was rung in the evening, as a signal that fires were to be extinguished.
Search the NHLE for: CURFEW BELL TOWER - CURING HOUSE — A place where meat and fruit, etc, is preserved by salting and/or drying.
Search the NHLE for: CURING HOUSE - CURLING POND — A shallow outdoor pool, usually rectangular in shape filled with water which when frozen was used for the sport of Curling.
Search the NHLE for: CURLING POND - CURRIERY — Place where tanned leather is dressed and coloured.
Search the NHLE for: CURRIERY - CURSUS — A long narrow rectangular earthwork enclosure of Neolithic date, usually defined by a bank and ditch and presumed to be of ceremonial function. Known examples range in length from less than 100m to c.10km.
Search the NHLE for: CURSUS - CURTAIN WALL — A wall between two towers or pavilions, usually surrounding a building, and often forming a major part of the defences.
Search the NHLE for: CURTAIN WALL - CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of an area of land enclosed by a ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier, where the boundary follows an irregular curving course.
Search the NHLE for: CURVILINEAR ENCLOSURE - CUSTOM HOUSE — An office, particularly at a seaport, at which customs are collected.
Search the NHLE for: CUSTOM HOUSE - CUSTOMS LOOKOUT — A building or site from which a watch can be kept to prevent the illegal import/export of goods.
Search the NHLE for: CUSTOMS LOOKOUT - CUTLERY WORKS — A site containing a forge for the manufacture of cutlery.
Search the NHLE for: CUTLERY WORKS - CUTLERY WORKSHOP — A place where metal knives and edge cutting tools were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: CUTLERY WORKSHOP - CYCLE LANE — An area of a carriageway, usually delimited by road markings, for the sole use of bicycles.
Search the NHLE for: CYCLE LANE - CYCLE PATH — A path, or marked lane, designated for use by cyclists.
Search the NHLE for: CYCLE PATH - CYLINDER HOUSE — A building in which purified charcoal was produced by distillation of wood in sealed cast-iron retorts heated in fire-boxes. Tarry by-products were sometimes recovered by condensation flues.
Search the NHLE for: CYLINDER HOUSE
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- D SHAPED BARROW — Not a round barrow ploughed out at one end, but a specific type, the flat edge being additionally defined by stone slabs.
Search the NHLE for: D SHAPED BARROW - D SHAPED ENCLOSURE — An area of land, in the shape of a D, enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: D SHAPED ENCLOSURE - DABBIN — Mud walled building found on the Solway Plain.
Search the NHLE for: DABBIN - DAIRY — A building or group of buildings used for the making, processing, storing and selling of milk and other dairy products.
Search the NHLE for: DAIRY - DAM — A barrier of concrete or earth, etc, built across a river to create a reservoir of water for domestic and/or industrial usage.
Search the NHLE for: DAM - DAME SCHOOL — A kind of primary school kept by elderly women.
Search the NHLE for: DAME SCHOOL - DANCE HALL — A public building where regular dances were held.
Search the NHLE for: DANCE HALL - DANCE STUDIO — A building or room used for the practice and study of dance.
Search the NHLE for: DANCE STUDIO - DANNERT WIRE — Barbed wire in the form of a coil which could be extended concertina-like to form a barrier to impede the movement of hostile troops.
Search the NHLE for: DANNERT WIRE - DARBAR SAHIB — The main hall of worship within a Sikh Temple.
Search the NHLE for: DARBAR SAHIB - DARLAND FIELD SYSTEM — Medieval Fenland ditched field system where the land is divided into strips for agricultural production. The strips are separated by hand-dug wide shallow drainage ditches with the spoil thrown up to create a dryer ridge.
Search the NHLE for: DARLAND FIELD SYSTEM - DATE STONE — A stone commemorating the date of a specific event.
Search the NHLE for: DATE STONE - DAY CENTRE — A non residential building providing recreational, social and other facilities, especially for the elderly and those with special needs.
Search the NHLE for: DAY CENTRE - DAY HOSPITAL — A hospital where elderly people receive medical treatment, but not overnight accommodation.
Search the NHLE for: DAY HOSPITAL - DAY MARK — An unlit, highly visible and distinctive feature on the coast that can be used by mariners for navigation during daylight only.
Search the NHLE for: DAY MARK - DAYROOM BLOCK — A hospital block where patients come for day-care medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: DAYROOM BLOCK - DEANERY — The official residence of a dean.
Search the NHLE for: DEANERY - DEBTORS COURT — A place of law to which debtors were taken for the recovery of monies by their creditors.
Search the NHLE for: DEBTORS COURT - DEBTORS PRISON — A prison for the confinement of people who owe money.
Search the NHLE for: DEBTORS PRISON - DECK ACCESS BLOCK — Block of flats incorporating broad, street-width balconies to give access to dwellings and connect to other blocks.
Search the NHLE for: DECK ACCESS BLOCK - DECONTAMINATION BUILDING — A building used for the treatment of victims of chemical, gas or other forms of contamination.
Search the NHLE for: DECONTAMINATION BUILDING - DECORATING SHOP — A workshop used for the decoration of fired pottery or ceramics. Usually part of a larger complex.
Search the NHLE for: DECORATING SHOP - DECORATIVE SURFACE — An area of the floor, wall or ceiling of a building, which has been painted, carved, sculpted or decorated.
Search the NHLE for: DECORATIVE SURFACE - DECOY AIRFIELD — A system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used to simulate an airfield and thus confuse enemy aircraft into bombing these counterfeit targets.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY AIRFIELD - DECOY BATTERY — Dummy construction in the form of a battery used during WWII to provide a counterfeit target for enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY BATTERY - DECOY DOCKS — A system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used to simulate a dockyard and thus confuse enemy aircraft into bombing these counterfeit targets.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY DOCKS - DECOY DOMESTIC SITE — A system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used to simulate a domestic site such as a city and thus confuse enemy aircraft into bombing counterfeit targets.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY DOMESTIC SITE - DECOY POND — A pond or pool with arms covered with nets into which wild birds, are lured and then caught. Monument type includes water feeder channels.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY POND - DECOY RAILWAY SITE — A system of lights, controlled fires or dummy constructions, used to simulate a railway yard or sidings and thus confuse enemy aircraft into bombing these counterfeit targets.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY RAILWAY SITE - DECOY SITE SHELTER — Partly subterranean operations rooms for the lighting arrays of the various types of bombing decoys in use during the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: DECOY SITE SHELTER - DEDICATION STONE — A commemorative stone inscribed with a dedicatory inscription to a person or event.
Search the NHLE for: DEDICATION STONE - DEER COTE — A building used for the shelter and protection of deer, especially in winter.
Search the NHLE for: DEER COTE - DEER COURSE — Area in a deer park where a single deer was chased by dogs over a set distance, with bets made on the outcome. It usually includes a stand (for viewing) and can also include three distance markers, a finishing post and a ditch behind the last post.
Search the NHLE for: DEER COURSE - DEER HOUSE — A building for housing deer overnight.
Search the NHLE for: DEER HOUSE - DEER LEAP — Bank to let deer cross ditches, fences or roads, into, but not out of, a deer park.
Search the NHLE for: DEER LEAP - DEER PARK — A large park for keeping deer. In medieval times the prime purpose was for hunting.
Search the NHLE for: DEER PARK - DEER POUND — An enclosure used for corralling deer.
Search the NHLE for: DEER POUND - DEER SHED — A building used to store fodder for deer.
Search the NHLE for: DEER SHED - DEER SHELTER — A building used to shelter deer hunters.
Search the NHLE for: DEER SHELTER - DEER TRAP — An earthwork feature used by hunters to trap deer comprising a steep ditch into which the deer are chased with an enclosure to hold them at one end, known from the Isle of Rum and a debateable example in Cumbria.
Search the NHLE for: DEER TRAP - DEFENCE — Sites, buildings, structures & features used in the defence of the civilian population. Includes civil defence sites, weapons stores, training sites, military signals & active defence structures such as anti-aircraft sites.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE - DEFENCE LINE — A system of defensive works such as anti-tank obstacles, ditches and pillboxes, designed to stop the advance of an enemy. Defence lines were constructed across and around strategic areas of ground and sites such as industrial towns.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE LINE - DEFENCE OBSTRUCTION — Sites and structures, often un-manned, intended to impede or confuse enemy forces.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE OBSTRUCTION - DEFENCE WORK — General term describing any defence work where no more specific term is applicable.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENCE WORK - DEFENDED BUILDING — A building which has been altered to increase its defensive characteristics. Use more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENDED BUILDING - DEFENDED ENCLOSURE — An enclosed area of land of varying size and shape which shows traces of defence.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENDED ENCLOSURE - DEFENDED HOUSE — A house which has been altered to increase its defensive characteristics.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENDED HOUSE - DEFENDED LOCALITY — An area, with fixed defences, designed to act as a focal point for a defending force.
Search the NHLE for: DEFENDED LOCALITY - DEGAUSSING STATION — A site where the magnetic signature of ships was lowered thereby making them less susceptible to magnetic mines.
Search the NHLE for: DEGAUSSING STATION - DEMOLITION CHAMBER — Chamber built into underside of a structure to exercise demolition.
Search the NHLE for: DEMOLITION CHAMBER - DEMOLITION CHARGE SITE — A site used for the placing of an explosive, demolition charge. Many types of structures were prepared for demolition in the event of an invasion in order to cause the maximum disruption to the advance of hostile forces. Use more specifc type where known.
Search the NHLE for: DEMOLITION CHARGE SITE - DEMOLITION DEBRIS — Debris derived from the demolition of buildings or other structures. If unsure of whether debris is resulting from construction or demolition, index with both terms.
Search the NHLE for: DEMOLITION DEBRIS - DEMOLITION LAYER — A layer underneath the topsoil containing rubble or fragments of building material, e.g. mortar, tile, flint.
Search the NHLE for: DEMOLITION LAYER - DENE HOLE — The name of a class of excavations, found in chalk formations in England, consisting of a shaft sunk to the chalk, and there widening out into one or more chambers.
Search the NHLE for: DENE HOLE - DENTAL DEPARTMENT — A hospital department where surgical and medical dental treatment takes place.
Search the NHLE for: DENTAL DEPARTMENT - DENTAL HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where medical and surgical dental treatment takes place.
Search the NHLE for: DENTAL HOSPITAL - DENTAL SCHOOL — An educational establishment where dentistry is taught.
Search the NHLE for: DENTAL SCHOOL - DEPARTMENT STORE — A large shop supplying many kinds of goods from various departments.
Search the NHLE for: DEPARTMENT STORE - DEPENDENT CHAPEL — A place of worship for the sect known as 'Cokelers', formed circa 1850 by John Sirgood. Most aspects of Dependent belief are fairly orthodox within the Arminian traditions of Protestant dissent. Chapels can be found in Sussex, Surrey, London and Kent.
Search the NHLE for: DEPENDENT CHAPEL - DEPOT — A building or site used as a storage and distribution centre.
Search the NHLE for: DEPOT - DERRICK — A structure consisting of a vertical mast and a horizontal boom operated by cables on a separate engine or motor. Used for hoisting and moving heavy loads or objects.
Search the NHLE for: DERRICK - DESERTED SETTLEMENT — An abandoned settlement, usually of the Medieval period, often visible only as earthworks or on aerial photographs.
Search the NHLE for: DESERTED SETTLEMENT - DETACHED HOUSE — A free-standing house, not joined to another on either side.
Search the NHLE for: DETACHED HOUSE - DEVIANT BURIAL — An interment of a human body that displays unusual burial practice such as positioning of the body, decapitation, dismemberment or over-secure burial.
Search the NHLE for: DEVIANT BURIAL - DEWPOND — A shallow pond, often artificial, fed by the condensation of water from the air, occuring on high land which has no other adequate water supply.
Search the NHLE for: DEWPOND - DHARMA HALL — A space in a Buddist building that is used for teaching Dharma/Dhamma - the teachings of Buddha.
Search the NHLE for: DHARMA HALL - DINGHY SHED (2900/43) — A modified Nissen hut, based on drawing number (2900/43), used for the repair packing and storage of inflatable liferafts.
Search the NHLE for: DINGHY SHED (2900/43) - DINGHY SHED (2901/43) — A temporary brick building, based on drawing number (2901/43), used for the repair, packing and storage of inflatable liferafts.
Search the NHLE for: DINGHY SHED (2901/43) - DIORAMA — A building in which a view is projected onto a wall by means of a lens.
Search the NHLE for: DIORAMA - DIPPING HOUSE — A building in which raw pottery is finished by dipping it in glaze.
Search the NHLE for: DIPPING HOUSE - DIPPING POND — A small pond, usually circular and serving as a feature at the centre of a walled garden, used for the purpose of filling watering cans.
Search the NHLE for: DIPPING POND - DIPPING WELL — A natural spring located within a, usually small, man-made structure, such as a niche or a box. The structure is so placed to accomodate use for a specific non-religious function, such as communal bathing.
Search the NHLE for: DIPPING WELL - DIRECT BOILING SALT WORKS — A coastal site producing salt by boiling of unconcentrated seawater in a PANHOUSE, normally using coal fuel. Foreshore BRINE TANKS may also be present
Search the NHLE for: DIRECT BOILING SALT WORKS - DIRECTION ARROW — A concrete marker placed to indicate the direction of a target on a bombing range to aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: DIRECTION ARROW - DIRECTION STONE — A stone, situated alongside a road, providing directions to travellers.
Search the NHLE for: DIRECTION STONE - DISABLED PEOPLES HOME — A residential home for adults with learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities.
Search the NHLE for: DISABLED PEOPLES HOME - DISC BARROW — A round barrow featuring a small mound separated from a ditch of much greater diameter by a wide berm. The ditch may be accompanied by an external (or occasionally internal) bank.
Search the NHLE for: DISC BARROW - DISCHARGE BLOCK — A hospital block from where patients are discharged after an operation or other treatment.
Search the NHLE for: DISCHARGE BLOCK - DISCOTHEQUE — A club or cafe where popular music is played for dancing.
Search the NHLE for: DISCOTHEQUE - DISINFECTING STATION — A building, usually part of a hospital complex, in which contaminated clothes, bedding and utensils are disinfected.
Search the NHLE for: DISINFECTING STATION - DISINFECTOR HOUSE — A building where patients or inmates of a hospital or workhouse were disinfected and their clothes washed or burnt to prevent the spread of infectious diseases or other ailments.
Search the NHLE for: DISINFECTOR HOUSE - DISPENSARY — A building or room for the distribution of medicines, eg. in a hospital or clinic.
Search the NHLE for: DISPENSARY - DISPERSAL — An area of hardstanding for parking aircraft, in a state of readiness, usually around the perimeter of an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSAL - DISPERSAL PEN — An area of hardstanding, surrounded on three sides by a protective wall or bank, used for parking aircraft, in a state of readiness, usually around the perimeter of an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSAL PEN - DISPERSAL PRISON — An institution for the detention of prisoners considered to be a major threat to public safety and/or to the security of the nation.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSAL PRISON - DISPERSED CLUSTER PLAN — A dispersed farmstead where the farm buildings and farmhouse are loosely grouped together within the boundary of the farmstead.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSED CLUSTER PLAN - DISPERSED DRIFTWAY PLAN — A dispersed farmstead where buildings and yards (regular or loose courtyard in their form) are sited alongside a routeway.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSED DRIFTWAY PLAN - DISPERSED MULTI YARD PLAN — A dispersed farmstead where buildings are arranged around scattered yards which can be loose or regular in their form.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSED MULTI YARD PLAN - DISPERSED PLAN — A farmstead where the buildings and yards are loosely arranged, with no focal yard. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSED PLAN - DISPERSED SITE — Accommodation and facilities for aircrew away from the main RAF airfield.
Search the NHLE for: DISPERSED SITE - DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP — A camp where people who fled from danger or problem whithin their country or across international borders and who are in need of international protection are temporarily placed.
Search the NHLE for: DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP - DISTILLATION BLOCK — A group of buildings, or part of a works, housing apparatus used in the process of distilling.
Search the NHLE for: DISTILLATION BLOCK - DISTILLATION PLANT — A building where distillation, a chemical process used in the production of a range of different chemicals, took place.
Search the NHLE for: DISTILLATION PLANT - DISTILLERY — An establishment or works where the distilling of spirits is carried out.
Search the NHLE for: DISTILLERY - DISTILLING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the process of distilling.
Search the NHLE for: DISTILLING SITE - DISTRIBUTION CENTRE — A short-term storage centre of goods or special parts to facilitate the rapid processing of orders and supply of goods to customers; unlike a warehouse, the emphasis is on the moving of goods rather than on a long-term storage.
Search the NHLE for: DISTRIBUTION CENTRE - DITCH — A long and narrow hollow or trench dug in the ground, often used to carry water though it may be dry for much of the year.
Search the NHLE for: DITCH - DITCHED ENCLOSURE — An area of land enclosed by one or several boundary ditches. Double index with a term to indicate the shape of the enclosure where known.
Search the NHLE for: DITCHED ENCLOSURE - DIVER BATTERY — Heavy anti aircraft battery used from June 1944-May 1945 to combat the V-bomb threat. They are distinct from normal HAA batteries, being laid out in a V-shape, and early on were mainly for mobile 3.7-inch guns.
Search the NHLE for: DIVER BATTERY - DIVING PLATFORM — A tower with one or more horizontal platforms extending out over deep water for use in diving competitions.
Search the NHLE for: DIVING PLATFORM - DIVING POOL — A large, deep, manmade pool, usually with accompanying diving boards/platforms and forming part of a swimming pool complex.
Search the NHLE for: DIVING POOL - DIVING TANK — A large tank used for training divers.
Search the NHLE for: DIVING TANK - DIVINITY SCHOOL — A school where theological subjects are taught.
Search the NHLE for: DIVINITY SCHOOL - DOCK — An artificial area of open water, enclosed by masonry and fitted with dock gates in which ships can be repaired, loaded/unloaded or berthed.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK - DOCK AND HARBOUR INSTALLATION — Excludes terms specific to MARINE CONSTRUCTION SITE.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK AND HARBOUR INSTALLATION - DOCK BASIN — An open area of water, usually artificial and enclosed by dock gates or locks, lined with wharves, warehouses and berths to enable vessels to load and unload.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK BASIN - DOCK FLOOR — The bottom of a dock.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK FLOOR - DOCK GATE — A gate used to seal the entrance to a dock to prevent water escaping from a wet dock or entering a dry dock.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK GATE - DOCK SILL — Horizontal masonry or timber work at the entrance to a dock.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK SILL - DOCK WORKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a dock worker.
Search the NHLE for: DOCK WORKERS COTTAGE - DOCKMASTERS OFFICE — An administrative building used by the official in charge of a dock or harbour.
Search the NHLE for: DOCKMASTERS OFFICE - DOCKYARD — An enclosure in which ships are built and repaired, and all sorts of ships' stores are brought together.
Search the NHLE for: DOCKYARD - DOCKYARD RAILWAY — A railway at a dockyard used for the transportation of goods to and from the dock side.
Search the NHLE for: DOCKYARD RAILWAY - DOCTORS HOSTEL — A building, usually associated with a hospital, where doctors live. Include blocks of self-contained flats.
Search the NHLE for: DOCTORS HOSTEL - DOG RACING TRACK — A racing track, often within a permanent stadium, for racing dogs, usually greyhounds and whippets.
Search the NHLE for: DOG RACING TRACK - DOG TROUGH — A long stone or metal vessel for dogs to drink water from.
Search the NHLE for: DOG TROUGH - DOGS HOME — A range of buildings used to house abandoned or stray dogs.
Search the NHLE for: DOGS HOME - DOLPHIN — A cluster of piles for mooring a vessel.
Search the NHLE for: DOLPHIN - DOLPHINARIUM — A pool and ancilliary buildings used for the housing of dolphins.
Search the NHLE for: DOLPHINARIUM - DOME TRAINER — A dome shaped building, housing training apparatus, including a projector, for training ground gunners in the art of airfield defence. (WWII).
Search the NHLE for: DOME TRAINER - DOMESTIC — Sites, buildings, structures and features used for permanent, seasonal or temporary accommodation/habitation & related ancillary buildings. Includes commercial, military and religious sites used for residential purposes as well as industrial workplaces.
Search the NHLE for: DOMESTIC - DOMESTIC CHAPEL — A chapel for a private residence.
Search the NHLE for: DOMESTIC CHAPEL - DOMESTIC MILITARY BUILDING — Buildings used for the accommodation, welfare and recreation of servicemen, especially those serving in the Royal Air Force. Use only for buildings associated with military installations. For non-military, use DOMESTIC class and its narrower terms.
Search the NHLE for: DOMESTIC MILITARY BUILDING - DOMESTIC SITE — Sites used for the accommodation, welfare and recreation of servicemen, especially those serving in the Royal Air Force. Use only for sites associated with military installations. For non-military sites use DOMESTIC class and its narrower terms.
Search the NHLE for: DOMESTIC SITE - DOMESTIC WORKSHOP — A workshop forming part of a domestic dwelling.
Search the NHLE for: DOMESTIC WORKSHOP - DOMINICAN FRIARY — A house of friars of the order of St Dominic. Also known as Friars Preachers or 'Black Friars'.
Search the NHLE for: DOMINICAN FRIARY - DOMINICAN NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Dominican nuns.
Search the NHLE for: DOMINICAN NUNNERY - DOMUS CONVERSORUM — House, where destitute Jews converted to Christianity after the expulsion. Latin for "House of Converts".
Search the NHLE for: DOMUS CONVERSORUM - DONKEY HOUSE — A building used to accommodate donkeys.
Search the NHLE for: DONKEY HOUSE - DONKEY WHEEL — A treadwheel using a donkey as motive power. Usually found operating wells.
Search the NHLE for: DONKEY WHEEL - DOPE SHOP — An aircraft maintenance workshop deriving from the use of weather proofing varnish to aircraft canvas called "dope" in order to keep the canvas taut and airtight. From 1912 onwards.
Search the NHLE for: DOPE SHOP - DORIC TEMPLE — An 18th century garden building, designed in the form of a classical Doric temple, used for standing or sitting in.
Search the NHLE for: DORIC TEMPLE - DORMITORY — Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: DORMITORY - DOUBLE DITCHED ENCLOSURE — An area of land enclosed by two parallel ditches. Use with specific shaped enclosure where known.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE DITCHED ENCLOSURE - DOUBLE ENDED HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a single storey open hall with a two storey domestic range attached to both ends forming an H shape.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE ENDED HALL HOUSE - DOUBLE HOUSE — Mixed house of nuns and religious men.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE HOUSE - DOUBLE PILE HOUSE — A house having four rooms of equal height on each of two floors; in larger houses there are often two parallel and equal roofs.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLE PILE HOUSE - DOUBLING MILL — A textile factory where the process of doubling, the twisting together of two spun yarns, takes place.
Search the NHLE for: DOUBLING MILL - DOVECOTE — A building, or part of a building, used to house doves and pigeons, usually placed at a height above the ground, with openings and provision inside for roosting and breeding.
Search the NHLE for: DOVECOTE - DOWER HOUSE — A small house, usually on the estate of a country house, forming part of a widow's dower and intended as her residence.
Search the NHLE for: DOWER HOUSE - DOWNDRAUGHT KILN — A type of pottery kiln in which air rises up inside the oven to be forced back down and out through the base of the oven.
Search the NHLE for: DOWNDRAUGHT KILN - DRABBET FACTORY — A factory producing drabbet, a type of linen cloth.
Search the NHLE for: DRABBET FACTORY - DRAIN — An artificial channel for draining water or carrying it off.
Search the NHLE for: DRAIN - DRAINAGE DITCH — A long, narrow ditch designed to carry water away from a waterlogged area.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE DITCH - DRAINAGE LEVEL — A horizontal tunnel dug specifically for draining, for example, a mine.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE LEVEL - DRAINAGE MILL — Wind or water-powered mill for land drainage in fens or marshlands.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE MILL - DRAINAGE SYSTEM — A system of artificial or natural drains and ditches used to drain off surplus water.
Search the NHLE for: DRAINAGE SYSTEM - DRAMA SCHOOL — A building where students study theatre and the dramatic arts.
Search the NHLE for: DRAMA SCHOOL - DRAW DOCK — An inlet in the banks of a navigable river, often lined with brick and gated, into which boats can be drawn for repair etc.
Search the NHLE for: DRAW DOCK - DRAW KILN — A lime kiln built into a low hillside or slope to facilitate top loading of the limestone.
Search the NHLE for: DRAW KILN - DRAWBRIDGE — A movable bridge lifted at one end by chains or ropes either to stop traffic passing over it or to let traffic pass under it.
Search the NHLE for: DRAWBRIDGE - DRAWBRIDGE PIT — A purpose built pit, usually below a gatehouse or barbican, into which the counterweight of a drawbridge could be lowered, thus enabling the bridge to be raised.
Search the NHLE for: DRAWBRIDGE PIT - DRAWING OFFICE — A commercial building used for the production of detailed, often technical, drawings.
Search the NHLE for: DRAWING OFFICE - DRESSING FLOOR — The place where metallic ores were crushed and washed to remove waste, forming a concentrate which could be used in a smelter.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING FLOOR - DRESSING MILL — A mill used for the sizing and drying of warp threads before they were wound onto warp beams as part of the power-weaving process.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING MILL - DRESSING SHED — A shed, often found at a quarry, in which rough stone is shaped or dressed.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING SHED - DRESSING WASTE — Residues from ore-processing operations; intact tips and deposits may preserve considerable evidence on the processes used. A high rpoportion have been destroyed by reprocessing.
Search the NHLE for: DRESSING WASTE - DRIFT — A straight mine entrance, driven on a constant downwards slope.
Search the NHLE for: DRIFT - DRIFT MINE — A mine in which access is gained by a straight entrance driven on a constant downward slope. Use with product(s) extracted and MINE where known, eg. COAL MINE.
Search the NHLE for: DRIFT MINE - DRILL HALL — A building or site used for the exercise and training of military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: DRILL HALL - DRILL TOWER — A multi-level structure designed to simulate tall buildings to allow firefighters to practice firefighting and rescue techniques
Search the NHLE for: DRILL TOWER - DRINKING FOUNTAIN — A fountain erected specifically to supply drinking water.
Search the NHLE for: DRINKING FOUNTAIN - DRIVE — A road/carriage way giving access from the main road to the house, stables.
Search the NHLE for: DRIVE - DROVE ROAD — A road or track specifically used by drovers or herders to drive their animals to market.
Search the NHLE for: DROVE ROAD - DROVERS HOUSE — The residence of a drover.
Search the NHLE for: DROVERS HOUSE - DROVERS INN — A wayside inn for livestock traders.
Search the NHLE for: DROVERS INN - DRY DOCK — A stone-faced enclosure, with entrance closed by a floatable caisson or by gates, which can be pumped dry for inspection, maintenance, or repair of the hull or underwater fittings of a ship or ships.
Search the NHLE for: DRY DOCK - DRYING GROUND — An open area used for drying products manufactured using an industrial process.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING GROUND - DRYING HOUSE — A building used to aid in the drying of goods, for example, by means of flowing air.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING HOUSE - DRYING KILN — A furnace or oven used for drying items or materials. Use specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING KILN - DRYING LOFT — A loft for the drying of thread or cloth.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING LOFT - DRYING STOVE — A type of drying house, usually circular with a conical roof.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING STOVE - DRYING TOWER — A purpose-built building with a tower used for the drying of parachutes.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING TOWER - DRYING TOWER (11595/42) — A purpose-built building with a steel framed tower, based on drawing number (11595/42). Used for the drying of parachutes.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING TOWER (11595/42) - DRYING TOWER (9290/42) — A brick tower, based on drawing number (9290/42), usually added to an existing building. Used for the drying of parachutes.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING TOWER (9290/42) - DRYING TOWER (9294/42) — A purpose-built building with a brick tower constructed on one end, based on drawing number (9294/42). Used for the drying of parachutes.
Search the NHLE for: DRYING TOWER (9294/42) - DUCK HOUSE — A building used to accommodate ducks.
Search the NHLE for: DUCK HOUSE - DUCK POND — A pond with protection for nesting ducks and other wild fowl
Search the NHLE for: DUCK POND - DUCKING POND — A pond used for the punishment, by ducking in water, of offenders.
Search the NHLE for: DUCKING POND - DUCKING STOOL — A chair fixed to the end of a plank, in which scolds or dishonest people were tied and ducked in water as a punishment.
Search the NHLE for: DUCKING STOOL - DUMMY PILLBOX — A construction designed to look like a pillbox in order to deceive or confuse the enemy.
Search the NHLE for: DUMMY PILLBOX - DUN — A building or settlement enclosure with a thick drystone wall, generally circular or oval in plan, usually sited in an elevated position.
Search the NHLE for: DUN - DUNG PIT — A pit used for containing manure.
Search the NHLE for: DUNG PIT - DUNGEON — An underground cell, or group of cells, used for imprisonment.
Search the NHLE for: DUNGEON - DUST EXTRACTION PLANT — A plant where freshly mined coal was washed down and any dust removed before loading for transport away from the colliery.
Search the NHLE for: DUST EXTRACTION PLANT - DUSTING HOUSE — A building within the gunpowder works complex. During the gunpowder production process, the mill cake was broken down, pressed and then corned. The remaining dust was removed from the corned powder by tumbling it in gauze-covered revolving cylinders.
Search the NHLE for: DUSTING HOUSE - DUTCH GARDEN — A 17th century garden in the Dutch style: usually flat and compact, with an emphasis on small canals, hedges, topiary, lead statuary and flowering shrubs and bulbs.
Search the NHLE for: DUTCH GARDEN - DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER — A boundary marker for the payment of tax or duty.
Search the NHLE for: DUTY BOUNDARY MARKER - DUTY PILOTS OFFICE (2072/26) — The first standardized design for a building for the duty pilot. It took the form of a small bungalow with a bay window on the front elevation.
Search the NHLE for: DUTY PILOTS OFFICE (2072/26) - DUTY POST — A boundary post for the payment of tax or duty.
Search the NHLE for: DUTY POST - DWELLING — Places of residence.
Search the NHLE for: DWELLING - DYE AND PIGMENT SITE — Buildings and sites used for the production of inorganic and organic dyes, pigments and paints.
Search the NHLE for: DYE AND PIGMENT SITE - DYE HOUSE — A building, usually one-storeyed, for dyeing cloth.
Search the NHLE for: DYE HOUSE - DYE WORKS — A site used for the production of dyes from natural ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: DYE WORKS - DYKE (DEFENCE) — A defensive or boundary earthwork.
Search the NHLE for: DYKE (DEFENCE) - DYNAMITE FACTORY — A works or factory principally engaged in the manufacture of dynamite
Search the NHLE for: DYNAMITE FACTORY
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- EAR HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of ear disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EAR HOSPITAL - EAR NOSE AND THROAT DEPARTMENT — A hospital department for the medical treatment of ear, nose and throat disorders.
Search the NHLE for: EAR NOSE AND THROAT DEPARTMENT - EAR NOSE AND THROAT HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of ear, nose and throat disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EAR NOSE AND THROAT HOSPITAL - EARLY WARNING SITE — A site, building or structure used for the detection of approaching hostile aircraft, shipping or missiles early enough to allow a counterattack or defensive measures to be taken. Use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: EARLY WARNING SITE - EARLY WARNING STATION — A complex of buildings using Radar or satellite tracking to monitor and detect enemy missile launches early enough to allow a counterattack or defensive measures to be taken.
Search the NHLE for: EARLY WARNING STATION - EARTHWORK — A bank or mound of earth used as a rampart or fortification.
Search the NHLE for: EARTHWORK - EASTERN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL — The principal Eastern Orthodox church in an area.
Search the NHLE for: EASTERN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL - EASTERN ORTHODOX CEMETERY — A burial ground for followers of the Eastern Orthodox church.
Search the NHLE for: EASTERN ORTHODOX CEMETERY - EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for followers of the Eastern Orthodox churches. This family of churches separated from the Western church in the 11th century and recognizes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
Search the NHLE for: EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH - EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT — For commercial or non commercial use. See narrow terms in each class.
Search the NHLE for: EATING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENT - EATING HOUSE — A cheap restaurant.
Search the NHLE for: EATING HOUSE - ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE — An office which administers the affairs of the church.
Search the NHLE for: ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE - ECONOMIZER HOUSE — A building housing an economizer, a machine designed to preheat water for boilers.
Search the NHLE for: ECONOMIZER HOUSE - EDGE TOOL WORKS — A factory or works used for the forging and sharpening of a variety of tools including scythes, spades, etc.
Search the NHLE for: EDGE TOOL WORKS - EDUCATION — Sites, buildings, structures & features relating to the provision of knowledge and skills.
Search the NHLE for: EDUCATION - EEL STALL — A stall where eels, either raw or cooked, are sold.
Search the NHLE for: EEL STALL - EEL TRAP — A device with a funnel-shaped entrance designed for catching eels.
Search the NHLE for: EEL TRAP - EFFIGY — A sculptured likeness, portrait or image, often found on a tomb or other memorial.
Search the NHLE for: EFFIGY - EGYPTIAN GARDEN — A garden incorporating Egyptian architectural features such as sphinxes and tomb-like features, etc.
Search the NHLE for: EGYPTIAN GARDEN - ELEANOR CROSS — One of 12 roadside crosses erected by Edward I in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, the most famous being Charing Cross in London.
Search the NHLE for: ELEANOR CROSS - ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE — A refractory lined furnace in which an electric arc is struck between the electrode and the metal to be melted.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE - ELECTRIC ENGINE — An engine in which the power is provided by electricity either in the form of batteries or direct from the mains supply.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRIC ENGINE - ELECTRIC WINCH — A hoisting mechanism powered by electricity.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRIC WINCH - ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WORKS — A factory or plant used for the manufacture of electrical machinery or components.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WORKS - ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FACTORY — A factory manufacturing electrical equipment, such as engines, transformers and generators for use in industry.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FACTORY - ELECTRICAL GOODS FACTORY — A site where small electrical goods such as radios, lamps and heaters are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICAL GOODS FACTORY - ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION CABINET — Usually dating from the early 20th century these cabinets, sited alongside public highways, were used for the distribution of electricity for street lighting control and later for domestic use. In Wolverhampton these boxes also serviced the tram system.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION CABINET - ELECTRICITY GENERATING HALL — A building or structure where electricity is generated.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY GENERATING HALL - ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of electricity.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION SITE - ELECTRICITY PYLON — A tall, metal structure erected as a support for electric power cables.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY PYLON - ELECTRICITY SUB STATION — Building containing transformers to reduce the high voltage of the National Grid to the lower voltage of domestic supply.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRICITY SUB STATION - ELECTRONICS FACTORY — A building or buildings where electronic components or devices are designed, developed, manufactured and assembled.
Search the NHLE for: ELECTRONICS FACTORY - ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — A school in which elementary subjects are taught to young children.
Search the NHLE for: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - ELEPHANT HOUSE — A building used to accommodate elephants at a zoo or wildlife park.
Search the NHLE for: ELEPHANT HOUSE - ELLING HEARTH — Small stone hearth set up in a shallow pit. Burns vegetation and coppiced twigs to produce potash.
Search the NHLE for: ELLING HEARTH - EMBANKED AVENUE — A monument consisting of parallel banks, normally accompanied by ditches, which appears to mark out an approach to another monument or monuments.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKED AVENUE - EMBANKED PIT ALIGNMENT — A pit alignment accompanied by a linear bank (or banks) running parallel and adjacent to the line(s) of pits.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKED PIT ALIGNMENT - EMBANKED STONE CIRCLE — A circular arrangement of spaced stone uprights set within a high bank, often interrupted by a formal entrance gap.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKED STONE CIRCLE - EMBANKMENT — A long ridge of earth, rocks or gravel primarily constructed to carry a roadway.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKMENT - EMBANKMENT CROSS — Earthworks of uncertain date and purpose, consisting of cross-shaped banks sometimes with an accompanying ditch. Their distribution is largely confined to North Yorkshire.
Search the NHLE for: EMBANKMENT CROSS - EMBARKATION BEACH — Beaches used for the departure of troops and equipment for the D-day landings.
Search the NHLE for: EMBARKATION BEACH - EMBARKATION HARD — Special concrete loading ramps nicknamed 'hards' had been constructed along river banks, beaches and inlets to enable organised embarkation onto various types of landing craft to take place, irrespective of tides.
Search the NHLE for: EMBARKATION HARD - EMBARKATION POINT — A site from which troops could be embarked onto transport vessels prior to the D-Day landings can also apply to muster/departure points from which troops embarked for their journey to the Front.
Search the NHLE for: EMBARKATION POINT - EMBASSY — The residence and office of an ambassador.
Search the NHLE for: EMBASSY - EMERGENCY COAST DEFENCE BATTERY — A coastal battery constructed at short notice usually mounting a variety of artillery pieces.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY COAST DEFENCE BATTERY - EMERGENCY EXIT TUNNEL — A tunnel with strengthened construction, used as an emergency exit from a civil defence building.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY EXIT TUNNEL - EMERGENCY FOOD CENTRE — An establishment from which food is distributed to the public during wartime or similar states of emergency.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY FOOD CENTRE - EMERGENCY LANDING GROUND — A prepared area of cleared ground on which an aircraft could make an emergency landing.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY LANDING GROUND - EMERGENCY PLANNING CENTRE — A structure, building or room within a building, used by a local authority for the continuance of local government in the event of a military or civil emergency.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY PLANNING CENTRE - EMERGENCY STORE — An establishment for the storage of food for use during wartime or similar states of emergency.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY STORE - EMERGENCY WAR HEADQUARTERS — A site, complex or building which has been converted for use as the headquarters for the civilian authorities in the event of a nuclear attack or major natural disaster destroying the seat of government.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY WAR HEADQUARTERS - EMERGENCY WARD — A large room within a hospital set aside for emergency patients.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY WARD - EMERGENCY WARD BLOCK — Use for blocks in Emergency Medical Scheme hospitals (WWII).
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY WARD BLOCK - EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY — A reservoir or tank used to hold a supply of water for fire-fighting purposes in the event of the main supply being damaged or cut off.
Search the NHLE for: EMERGENCY WATER SUPPLY - ENAMEL WORKS — A building or site used in the production of enamelled goods.
Search the NHLE for: ENAMEL WORKS - ENAMELLING KILN — A low-temperature oven for the firing of metallic-based colour onto pottery after glazing.
Search the NHLE for: ENAMELLING KILN - ENCLOSED CREMATION CEMETERY — A cemetery of later prehistoric date comprising exclusively cremated human remains, some or all of which may be contained within pottery vessels. The cemetery area is partly or wholly surrounded by an earthwork bank and/or ditch.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED CREMATION CEMETERY - ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEM — A system of individually enclosed fields.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED FIELD SYSTEM - ENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT — A settlement showing evidence for one or more hut circles, enclosed by a distinct boundary ditch, wall, earth rampart or similar barrier. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT - ENCLOSED OPPIDUM — A site with one or more defensive earthworks, often at a river crossing incorporating natural features which define parts of the curtilage.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED OPPIDUM - ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT — A site used primarily for domestic purposes on at least a semi-permanent or seasonal basis, and which has been surrounded by a bank and ditch, palisade, or some other form of enclosure. Use more specific type(s) where appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT - ENCLOSURE — An area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or other similar barrier. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ENCLOSURE - END GABLED HOUSE — A house with a pitched roof with a double slope and gables on the side elevations of the building.
Search the NHLE for: END GABLED HOUSE - END JETTY HOUSE — A jettied house where the upper storey only overhangs the end elevation of the building.
Search the NHLE for: END JETTY HOUSE - ENGINE — A machine, powered by steam, gas, electricity or other energy source, which produces energy of movement. Use for stationary industrial engines rather than transport use.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINE - ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing an engine. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINE HOUSE - ENGINE SHED — A building used to house railway engines.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINE SHED - ENGINEERING INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the engineering industry.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINEERING INDUSTRY SITE - ENGINEERING WORKS — Any factory or site using machine tools in a manufacturing or processing capacity.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINEERING WORKS - ENGINEERING WORKSHOP — A building or room used for any type of engineering work. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINEERING WORKSHOP - ENGINEERS HOUSE — The residence of an engineer.
Search the NHLE for: ENGINEERS HOUSE - ENTRANCE GRAVE — A form of Neolithic burial monument primarily found in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. It comprises a round cairn, usually with a retaining wall or kerb, and an entrance leading directly into a chamber.
Search the NHLE for: ENTRANCE GRAVE - ERECTING SHOP — Engineering workshop used for the final assembly of vehicles or structures from parts produced elsewhere in an engineering works.
Search the NHLE for: ERECTING SHOP - ESCAPE TUNNEL — A tunnel built to allow internees (in a camp, prison etc.) to escape.
Search the NHLE for: ESCAPE TUNNEL - ESSENCE FACTORY — A factory, or group of buildings, containing apparatus used to extract specific properties, e.g flavour or scent, from natural ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: ESSENCE FACTORY - ESTATE BUILDING — A building situated within the estate of a manor or country house.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE BUILDING - ESTATE COTTAGE — A cottage for workers on a country house estate.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE COTTAGE - ESTATE LAUNDRY — A laundry situated within the estate of a manor or country house.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE LAUNDRY - ESTATE OFFICE — An office for the administration of town or country estates.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE OFFICE - ESTATE VILLAGE — A purpose-built model village for the workers on a country house estate.
Search the NHLE for: ESTATE VILLAGE - ETHER PLANT — A site used for the production of anaesthetic gas.
Search the NHLE for: ETHER PLANT - EVACUEE CENTRE — Temporary accommodation for war evacuees.
Search the NHLE for: EVACUEE CENTRE - EXAMINATION HALL — An educational building where examinations are held.
Search the NHLE for: EXAMINATION HALL - EXCARNATION PLATFORM — A platform on which corpses are placed and allowed to decompose in the open air, so as to leave only the bones for subsequent burial.
Search the NHLE for: EXCARNATION PLATFORM - EXCHANGE — A multi-purpose commercial building, used primarily as a trading place for merchants, but also incorporating shops, public offices, guildhalls, etc.
Search the NHLE for: EXCHANGE - EXCHEQUER — A building or a room for accounts.
Search the NHLE for: EXCHEQUER - EXCISE OFFICE — A government office used for the collecting of excise tax/duty.
Search the NHLE for: EXCISE OFFICE - EXCLUSIVE BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for Exclusive Brethren, an exclusive fundamentalist puritan sect which was created when the Brethren split in 1847.
Search the NHLE for: EXCLUSIVE BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE - EXECUTION SITE — A place where people were put to death. Use narrower monument type where known.
Search the NHLE for: EXECUTION SITE - EXEDRA — An area of a garden with a semi-circular backdrop formed by an ornamental, architectural structure or a natural feature grown to the required shape eg. a hedge
Search the NHLE for: EXEDRA - EXERCISE YARD — A courtyard in a prison or workhouse for the inmates to take exercise.
Search the NHLE for: EXERCISE YARD - EXHAUSTER HOUSE — A building forming part of a colliery ventilation system exhausting stale air from shafts and headings.
Search the NHLE for: EXHAUSTER HOUSE - EXHIBITION HALL — A hall used for housing public displays.
Search the NHLE for: EXHIBITION HALL - EXHIBITION PAVILION — A pavilion used for exhibitions, e.g. the exhibition pavilions at the Great Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1925.
Search the NHLE for: EXHIBITION PAVILION - EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE — A house built using experimental building techniques and materials.
Search the NHLE for: EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE - EXPLOSIVES FACTORY — A building or buildings where explosives are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: EXPLOSIVES FACTORY - EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production, testing and storage of explosives.
Search the NHLE for: EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURING SITE - EXPLOSIVES STORE — A building used for the storage of explosives of a non-military function, eg. mining explosives, signal explosivres etc.
Search the NHLE for: EXPLOSIVES STORE - EXTENDED DEFENCE OFFICER POST — An observation post for a naval officer in charge of a marine minefield.
Search the NHLE for: EXTENDED DEFENCE OFFICER POST - EXTENDED INHUMATION — A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is laid out in an approximately straight line, whether face up, face down, or on its side.
Search the NHLE for: EXTENDED INHUMATION - EXTRA MURAL SUBURB — A suburb of a town, especially Roman or Medieval, situtated or extending beyond its formal limits, usually demarked by defences.
Search the NHLE for: EXTRA MURAL SUBURB - EXTRACTIVE PIT — Surface workings including shallow shafts, lode workings, open-pit methods and quarrying including some mines of stone, clays, compounds, etc. See also MINERAL EXTRACTION SITE.
Search the NHLE for: EXTRACTIVE PIT - EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of eye and ear disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL - EYE DEPARTMENT — A hospital department for the medical treatment of eye disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EYE DEPARTMENT - EYE HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of eye disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: EYE HOSPITAL - EYOT — A small island, especially within a river.
Search the NHLE for: EYOT
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- FABRICATION SHED — Covered area for making large engineered constructions such as sections of ships or bridges.
Search the NHLE for: FABRICATION SHED - FACADE — Use wider site type where known. Only use term where no other part of original building survives.
Search the NHLE for: FACADE - FACTORY — A building or complex, housing powered machinery and employing a large workforce for manufacturing purposes. Use specific monument type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FACTORY - FACTORY UNIT — A modern small factory or workshop, often in the form of a prefabricated shed.
Search the NHLE for: FACTORY UNIT - FACULTY BUILDING — A departmental building within a college or university where a particular subject is taught and administered.
Search the NHLE for: FACULTY BUILDING - FAIR — A site where a periodical gathering of buyers, sellers and entertainers, meet at a time ordained by charter or statute or by ancient custom.
Search the NHLE for: FAIR - FAIR BOOTH — A covered stall at a market or fair, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FAIR BOOTH - FAIRBAIRN JIB CRANE — A dockside crane with a solid curving jib made out of rivetted iron plates.
Search the NHLE for: FAIRBAIRN JIB CRANE - FAIRGROUND RIDE — Forms of ride which are designed for entertainment.
Search the NHLE for: FAIRGROUND RIDE - FAIRLEAD — A pulley block and metal ring used to guide a line or rope and cause it to run easily without chafing.
Search the NHLE for: FAIRLEAD - FALCONRY — An establishment or building where the breeding and training of birds of prey takes place.
Search the NHLE for: FALCONRY - FAMILY PROCEEDINGS COURT — A distinctive magistrates court established by legislation in 1980, dealing with civil family proceedings.
Search the NHLE for: FAMILY PROCEEDINGS COURT - FAMILY VAULT — A burial vault built to contain the remains of members of a single family, household or dynasty.
Search the NHLE for: FAMILY VAULT - FAN HOUSE — A building housing a fan used for the ventilation of mines
Search the NHLE for: FAN HOUSE - FARM — A tract of land, often including a farmhouse and ancillary buildings, used for the purpose of cultivation and the rearing of livestock, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FARM - FARM BUILDING — A building or structure of unknown function found on a farm. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FARM BUILDING - FARM LABOURERS COTTAGE — The dwelling place of a farm worker.
Search the NHLE for: FARM LABOURERS COTTAGE - FARMHOUSE — The main dwelling-house of a farm, it can be either detached from or attached to the working buildings.
Search the NHLE for: FARMHOUSE - FARMSTEAD — The homestead of a farm consisting of a farmhouse and working farm buildings, with yards, other working areas and usually a garden to the house.
Search the NHLE for: FARMSTEAD - FARMYARD — A yard or enclosure attached to a farmhouse, usually surrounded by other farm buildings.
Search the NHLE for: FARMYARD - FARMYARD CAUSEWAY — An area of hardstanding to allow movement of farm transport in all weathers.
Search the NHLE for: FARMYARD CAUSEWAY - FATTENING HOUSE — A building where animals are deliberately fattened before being killed for their meat.
Search the NHLE for: FATTENING HOUSE - FEATURE — Areas of indeterminate function.
Search the NHLE for: FEATURE - FEED MILL — A building or site for the manufacture of livestock fodder.
Search the NHLE for: FEED MILL - FEEDER CHANNEL — A channel or pipe providing water to a canal or other body of water.
Search the NHLE for: FEEDER CHANNEL - FELLMONGERY — A building used for the preparation of animal skins and hides prior to the tanning process.
Search the NHLE for: FELLMONGERY - FELT MILL — A textile mill where felt is produced.
Search the NHLE for: FELT MILL - FENCE — A construction of wood or metal used to enclose an area of land, a building, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FENCE - FENCING SCHOOL — An establishment where the art of sword fencing is taught.
Search the NHLE for: FENCING SCHOOL - FERME ORNEE — A rustic building of picturesque design, often associated with a model farm, country house or estate. Although ornamental in design they are intended to be functional.
Search the NHLE for: FERME ORNEE - FERMENTING BLOCK — A group of buildings, or part of a works, housing apparatus used in the process of fermentation.
Search the NHLE for: FERMENTING BLOCK - FERNERY (GARDEN) — Area of a garden for the cultivation of ferns.
Search the NHLE for: FERNERY (GARDEN) - FERNERY (GLASSHOUSE) — A glasshouse for the cultivation of ferns.
Search the NHLE for: FERNERY (GLASSHOUSE) - FERRIS WHEEL — A large, vertical revolving wheel with passenger cars or pods on the periphery used to give a bird's eye view of the surrounding area.
Search the NHLE for: FERRIS WHEEL - FERRY CROSSING — A route across a river, or lake. Use only for small inland ferries and index with LANDING POINT/STAGE/STEPS or PIER where known.
Search the NHLE for: FERRY CROSSING - FERRY CROSSING SHELTER — A structure providing protection from the elements to passengers waiting to board a ferry service at a dock, riverside, harbour or quay.
Search the NHLE for: FERRY CROSSING SHELTER - FERRY TERMINAL — An area of a port, dock or harbour, often including buildings for passport control and customs, where passengers and vehicles using ferry services can embark/disembark and where supplies can be taken on board.
Search the NHLE for: FERRY TERMINAL - FERRYKEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a ferrykeeper.
Search the NHLE for: FERRYKEEPERS COTTAGE - FERTILIZER STOREHOUSE — A building used to store fertilizers.
Search the NHLE for: FERTILIZER STOREHOUSE - FERTILIZER WORKS — A building or site used for the production of both chemical and organic fertilizer.
Search the NHLE for: FERTILIZER WORKS - FIBREGLASS WORKS — A factory used to manufacture fibreglass.
Search the NHLE for: FIBREGLASS WORKS - FIELD — An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation or the grazing of livestock.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD - FIELD BARN — An isolated barn, cow house or shelter shed with a hayloft. Typically found in areas where farmsteads and fields were sited at a long distance from each other.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD BARN - FIELD BOUNDARY — The limit line of a field.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD BOUNDARY - FIELD CENTRE — Building used for field studies and outdoor pursuits in the countryside and in an urban context.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD CENTRE - FIELD DRAIN — An unsocketed earthenware or porous concrete pipe laid end to end unjointed so as to drain the ground.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD DRAIN - FIELD KITCHEN — A temporary kitchen set up in the field providing food for troops. Use with MILITARY CAMP if existence of this is known.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD KITCHEN - FIELD SYSTEM — A group or complex of fields which appear to form a coherent whole. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FIELD SYSTEM - FIELDWORK — A usually temporary earthwork or fortification, the latter constructed by military forces operating in the field. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FIELDWORK - FIG HOUSE — A greenhouse for the growing of figs.
Search the NHLE for: FIG HOUSE - FIGHTER COMMAND STATION — An airfield, and associated structures, used by one or more fighter squadrons.
Search the NHLE for: FIGHTER COMMAND STATION - FIGHTER PEN — A turf-covered mound in a curvilinear E-shape, and hard-standing to take an aircraft. There were usually an access point to an air raid shelter at the rear. In use during WW2
Search the NHLE for: FIGHTER PEN - FIGHTER SATELLITE STATION WATCH OFFICE — A small single storey structure with just one room containing a pyrotechnic cupboard and built of rendered brick with a flat reinforced concrete roof
Search the NHLE for: FIGHTER SATELLITE STATION WATCH OFFICE - FIGUREHEAD — A carving, often a bust or full-length figure, originally found above a ship's cutwater. Use as an external feature only.
Search the NHLE for: FIGUREHEAD - FILEMAKERS WORKSHOP — A place where metal-cutting hand files were made.
Search the NHLE for: FILEMAKERS WORKSHOP - FILLING FACTORY — A factory where explosives and the components of munitions of all types are brought together for assembly.
Search the NHLE for: FILLING FACTORY - FILM SET — Purpose built or modified structure used for scenery in a film.
Search the NHLE for: FILM SET - FILM STUDIO — A building or complex of buildings where cinematographic films are produced.
Search the NHLE for: FILM STUDIO - FILTER BED — A tank or pond containing a layer of sand etc, for filtering large quantities of liquid.
Search the NHLE for: FILTER BED - FILTER HOUSE — A building containing apparatus for the removal of large pieces of detritus from a water supply.
Search the NHLE for: FILTER HOUSE - FINDSPOT — The approximate location at which stray finds of artefacts were found. Index with object name.
Search the NHLE for: FINDSPOT - FINERY — A building used for the decarburizing of pig iron to produce wrought iron.
Search the NHLE for: FINERY - FINGER POST — A signpost, usually placed at a juntion or crossroads, bearing a number of individual signs radiating outward from the post to indicate locations in several directions.
Search the NHLE for: FINGER POST - FININGS WORKS — A factory used for the processing of isinglass, a product obtained from the swim bladders of sturgeon and used in the brewing industry as part of the process for clearing wine and beer.
Search the NHLE for: FININGS WORKS - FINISHING HOUSE — A building or area where processes like bleaching, dressing, etc, are conducted under one roof.
Search the NHLE for: FINISHING HOUSE - FINISHING SHOP — A place where a product is given any finishing processes before being despatched to the user.
Search the NHLE for: FINISHING SHOP - FINISHING WORKS — A large scale works for cloth finishing processes.
Search the NHLE for: FINISHING WORKS - FIRE CLAY WORKS — A building or site used for the production of bricks and other items, from a clay with refractory properties.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE CLAY WORKS - FIRE ENGINE HOUSE — The carriage house or garage for a fire engine - especially those built by insurance companies or industrial concerns.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE ENGINE HOUSE - FIRE HYDRANT — A large discharge pipe with a valve for drawing water from a water main. Used to help extinguish fires.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE HYDRANT - FIRE PIT — A pit dug into the ground or a simple construction made of stone, brick or metal. Designed to contain a fire and prevent it from spreading, but can also be used to heat stone for breaking.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE PIT - FIRE SERVICE HEADQUARTERS — A building, either purpose-built or modified, used for the co-ordination of the Fire Service.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE SERVICE HEADQUARTERS - FIRE SERVICES HEADQUARTERS — A building, either purpose-built or modified, used for the co-ordination of the Fire Service.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE SERVICES HEADQUARTERS - FIRE STATION — A civic building housing fire engines and a permanent fire-fighting force.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE STATION - FIRE TENDER HOUSE — A building, on an airfield, used to house a fire engine.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE TENDER HOUSE - FIRE TENDER HOUSE (12563/40) — A building, on an airfield, used to house a fire engine designed to Air Ministry drawing number 12563/40.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE TENDER HOUSE (12563/40) - FIRE TENDER HOUSE (5342/42) — A building, on an airfield, used to house a fire engine designed to Air Ministry drawing number 5342/42.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE TENDER HOUSE (5342/42) - FIRE TRENCH — A trench cut around a building or structure to prevent the spread of fire.
Search the NHLE for: FIRE TRENCH - FIREBREAK — A natural or man-made gap in vegetation or other combustible material that acts as a barrier to slow or stop the progress of a fire.
Search the NHLE for: FIREBREAK - FIRELIGHTER FACTORY — A factory used for the industrial manufacture of firelighters.
Search the NHLE for: FIRELIGHTER FACTORY - FIREPLACE FACTORY — A factory manufacturing fireplaces.
Search the NHLE for: FIREPLACE FACTORY - FIREPROOF BUILDING — A building constructed with the minimum amount of combustible materials.
Search the NHLE for: FIREPROOF BUILDING - FIREPROOF FACTORY — A factory, mill or warehouse constructed with the minimum amount of combustible materials.
Search the NHLE for: FIREPROOF FACTORY - FIREWATCHERS POST — A building or structure used to provide protection to an Air Raid Warden or firewatcher during an air raid, thus enabling the identification of the locations of fires caused by incendiary bombs in comparative safety.
Search the NHLE for: FIREWATCHERS POST - FIRING CHAMBER — A protected chamber for investigating the controlled detonation and burning of explosive compounds, typically associated with a protected control room and high speed visual recording facilities.
Search the NHLE for: FIRING CHAMBER - FIRING PLATFORM — An area of a site or building providing a stable base for the firing of artillery pieces.
Search the NHLE for: FIRING PLATFORM - FIRING RANGE — A piece of ground over which small arms or large artillery may be fired at targets. For rocket and missile firing use ROCKET TEST FACILITY.
Search the NHLE for: FIRING RANGE - FIRING RANGE BLOCKHOUSE — A shelter on a firing range from which the wepaons testing can be viewed in safety.
Search the NHLE for: FIRING RANGE BLOCKHOUSE - FIRST AID POST — A building with first aid facilities to deal with accidents and other medical emergencies.
Search the NHLE for: FIRST AID POST - FIRST FLOOR HALL HOUSE — A high status building of the medieval period, consisting of a hall and attached room at first floor level with rooms below possibly for storage or living accommodation for a lower status family. The first floor was accessed by an external staircase.
Search the NHLE for: FIRST FLOOR HALL HOUSE - FISH AND CHIP SHOP — A shop where fish and chips are sold.
Search the NHLE for: FISH AND CHIP SHOP - FISH CELLAR — A building where fish are stored. Often taking the form of a single storey building with one room, but also may provide living accommodation for a fisherman above. Found mainly in the South West of England.
Search the NHLE for: FISH CELLAR - FISH FARM — A farm with a pond, river, lake or tanks where fish are kept and bred for commercial purposes.
Search the NHLE for: FISH FARM - FISH GARTH — A holding tank/pen on a river or seashore for raising and preserving fish and/or for catching them easily.
Search the NHLE for: FISH GARTH - FISH HOUSE — A building used for the storage of fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISH HOUSE - FISH LADDER — A series of steps designed to enable fish to ascend a fall of water or a dam.
Search the NHLE for: FISH LADDER - FISH LOCK — A lock, often containing a fish ladder, which allows fish to swim upstream bypassing a weir or other obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: FISH LOCK - FISH MARKET — A market where fish is sold.
Search the NHLE for: FISH MARKET - FISH PROCESSING FACTORY — A factory where fish are processed into food products.
Search the NHLE for: FISH PROCESSING FACTORY - FISH PROCESSING SITE — A place where fish are processed after being caught.
Search the NHLE for: FISH PROCESSING SITE - FISH STONE — A stone slab, raised on stone or wooden piers, used for the display of fresh fish. Usually found in market places.
Search the NHLE for: FISH STONE - FISH TANK — A small brick structure attached to a house for keeping fish prior to cooking.
Search the NHLE for: FISH TANK - FISH TRAP — A device for catching fish, may be a portable or permanent structure, often a fence or row stakes made in a river, harbour, etc
Search the NHLE for: FISH TRAP - FISH WAREHOUSE — A large building where fish are stored before sale.
Search the NHLE for: FISH WAREHOUSE - FISH WEIR — A fence or row of stakes, often with nets attached forming an enclosure within a river or harbour and used for catching, or holding, fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISH WEIR - FISHERMANS HOUSE — A purpose-built fisherman's house, eg. a house with a first floor dwelling and ground floor fish store, or a house with a watch tower for spotting shoals.
Search the NHLE for: FISHERMANS HOUSE - FISHERMENS FASTENER — An unidentified feature on the seabed recorded by fishermen as an obstruction to trawling.
Search the NHLE for: FISHERMENS FASTENER - FISHERY — An area where fish are naturally present, eg. part of a river.
Search the NHLE for: FISHERY - FISHERY MOUND — A mound used to elevate buildings associated with a fishery e.g. smoke houses, above the level of a flood plain.
Search the NHLE for: FISHERY MOUND - FISHING LODGE — A garden building on an estate used by fishing parties.
Search the NHLE for: FISHING LODGE - FISHING PAVILION — A waterside building from which one could fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISHING PAVILION - FISHING SHIEL — Small vernacular building used by fishermen for the preparing of nets and storage of equipment.
Search the NHLE for: FISHING SHIEL - FISHING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the farming of fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISHING SITE - FISHMONGERS SHOP — A shop where fish is sold.
Search the NHLE for: FISHMONGERS SHOP - FISHPOND — A pond used for the rearing, breeding, sorting and storing of fish.
Search the NHLE for: FISHPOND - FITTERS WORKSHOP — Engineering workshop intended either for final adjustments of new machinery or the fitting of replacement parts to machinery under repair.
Search the NHLE for: FITTERS WORKSHOP - FIVES COURT — A wall and area of ground where the game of fives is played.
Search the NHLE for: FIVES COURT - FIXED QUAY CRANE — A crane fixed to a quay, used for the unloading of ships cargoes.
Search the NHLE for: FIXED QUAY CRANE - FLAGPOLE — A freestanding staff upon which a flag is hung.
Search the NHLE for: FLAGPOLE - FLAME DEVICE — A WWII structure designed to project sheets of flame across an area such as a beach, the sea or a road, to hinder attacking forces.
Search the NHLE for: FLAME DEVICE - FLAME RETARDANT MATERIAL FACTORY — A factory making flame retardant materials.
Search the NHLE for: FLAME RETARDANT MATERIAL FACTORY - FLANKER — A battery mounted in the flank of a bastion from which flanking fire is directed across a curtain wall.
Search the NHLE for: FLANKER - FLANKING TOWER — Small tower projecting from a castle wall, or other fortified wall. Allows defenders to fire along the length of the wall.
Search the NHLE for: FLANKING TOWER - FLARE KILN — A lime kiln where the fuel is not mixed with the limestone but burnt below it.
Search the NHLE for: FLARE KILN - FLASH LOCK — A form of lock on a river, which increased the depth upstream and had a gated opening.
Search the NHLE for: FLASH LOCK - FLATS — A purpose-built tenement. Use specific monument type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: FLATS - FLAX BEATING STONE — A stone on which flax stems were beaten with wooden mallets, a process known as beetling.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX BEATING STONE - FLAX DRESSING SHOP — A building used for the preparatory processes in which long and short staple flax fibres were separated by passing through combs. Flax dressing or 'heckling' shops may be located both on and off mill sites.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX DRESSING SHOP - FLAX DRY HOUSE — A building used to dry flax.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX DRY HOUSE - FLAX MILL — A mill where flax is processed to make linen, thread and yarn.
Search the NHLE for: FLAX MILL - FLEA MARKET — A street market.
Search the NHLE for: FLEA MARKET - FLEECING SHOP — A workshop, associated with a tannery, in which the fleece is removed from the skin prior to the tanning process.
Search the NHLE for: FLEECING SHOP - FLEXED INHUMATION — A form of inhumation in which the skeleton is interred, usually on its side, with hip and knee joints bent through an angle of less than 90 degrees.
Search the NHLE for: FLEXED INHUMATION - FLIGHT OFFICE — Building block (often a temporary brick structure or Nissen hut) comprising office accommodation for flight commanders and flight sergeants as well as pilots' rest rooms, storerooms and locker rooms. Some flight offices have central corridors.
Search the NHLE for: FLIGHT OFFICE - FLINT KILN — Component part of a Flint Mill where flint is calcined before it is brittle enough to be ground in the mill. Ground, burnt flint is used in the production of earthenware pottery, which whitens and strenghens the body.
Search the NHLE for: FLINT KILN - FLINT MILL — A mill for crushing flint. Crushed flint was used in the manufacture of pottery in order to whiten and strengthen the body of earthenware pottery.
Search the NHLE for: FLINT MILL - FLINT MINE — A site where flint seams within chalk have been exploited by digging deep vertical shafts, often with horizontal galleries radiating out from the base. Use for Neolithic examples and for Post Medieval gunflint industry.
Search the NHLE for: FLINT MINE - FLINT SCATTER — A spatially discrete, though sometimes extensive, scatter of flint artefacts recovered from the surface, eg. by fieldwalking, rather than from a particular archaeological context.
Search the NHLE for: FLINT SCATTER - FLOATING BREAKWATER — A floating structure designed to resist the force of waves.
Search the NHLE for: FLOATING BREAKWATER - FLOATING CRANE — A dockyard crane permanently mounted on a lighter.
Search the NHLE for: FLOATING CRANE - FLOATING DOCK — A floating structure consisting of two walls standing on pontoon tanks, the latter of which can be flooded to receive a vessel and then pumped out until the pontoon deck and the ship are dry.
Search the NHLE for: FLOATING DOCK - FLOATING HARBOUR — A harbour constructed from floating pontoons or caissons connected end to end.
Search the NHLE for: FLOATING HARBOUR - FLOATING ROADWAY — A section of roadway attached at one end to a harbour or dockside and ending at a landing stage, rising and falling with the tide, for the loading and unloading of vehicles and pedestrians.
Search the NHLE for: FLOATING ROADWAY - FLOCK MILL — A mill for shredding cloth, for use in flock paper, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FLOCK MILL - FLOOD DEFENCES — Manmade constructions used to prevent water flooding the surrounding area. Often taking the form of a bank or wall but may be more elaborate e.g. the Thames Barrier.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD DEFENCES - FLOOD LOCK — Gates that can be opened or closed, to admit or exclude water, especially flood water.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD LOCK - FLOOD MARKER — A plaque attached onto, or a line incised into, a wall face or other surface to indicate the height of flood water inundation.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD MARKER - FLOOD MARKER POST — A graduated post or pole adjacent to an area at risk of flooding to indicate the depth of water during a flood.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD MARKER POST - FLOOD RELIEF CANAL — A channel dug, or built up, to carry away surplus water from a river or waterway to prevent it bursting its banks and flooding.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOD RELIEF CANAL - FLOODLIGHT — A metal structure supporting high powered lights.
Search the NHLE for: FLOODLIGHT - FLOOR — A layer of stone, brick or boards, etc, on which people tread. Use broader site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FLOOR - FLOORCLOTH FACTORY — A factory where floorcloths are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: FLOORCLOTH FACTORY - FLORAL CLOCK — A 20th century feature found in public parks and seaside resorts. The face of the clock is planted with low-growing flowers and plants, while the moving hands are covered with small foliage.
Search the NHLE for: FLORAL CLOCK - FLOTATION UNIT — 20th century plant for separating minerals using variations in water-repellent properties under controlled chemical conditions. Survives as ruins of buildings or tanks.
Search the NHLE for: FLOTATION UNIT - FLOUR MILL — A factory where flour was produced for use in food products.
Search the NHLE for: FLOUR MILL - FLOWER BED — A plot of earth used for the raising of flowers and shrubs.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER BED - FLOWER BOX — A stone, terracotta, wooden or metal receptacle used to grow flowers in.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER BOX - FLOWER GARDEN — A garden in which flower beds are the primary focal point.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER GARDEN - FLOWER MARKET — An outdoor or indoor place where flowers were sold.
Search the NHLE for: FLOWER MARKET - FLUE — A passageway, duct or pipe used for the conveyance of heat, gasses, smoke or air.
Search the NHLE for: FLUE - FLUORSPAR MINE — When a secondary mineral, use term for product type, eg. LEAD MINE.
Search the NHLE for: FLUORSPAR MINE - FLUORSPAR WORKINGS — A site where fluorspar or fluoride of calcium, often used as a flux by copper-ore smelters, is extracted from an open cast mine.
Search the NHLE for: FLUORSPAR WORKINGS - FLYING BOAT STATION — A complex of buildings at a seaport, comprising of a terminal building, landing pier and hangars, used for the embarkation of passengwers and/or freight on flying boat services during the 1930's-50's.
Search the NHLE for: FLYING BOAT STATION - FLYING CLUB — Buildings and structures associated with a private aviation club undertaken as a leisure pursuit. Usually situated on or near an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: FLYING CLUB - FLYOVER — A bridge for carrying a road or railway over another.
Search the NHLE for: FLYOVER - FODDER STORE — A building used to prepare and store dry food such as hay and straw for the feeding of cattle.
Search the NHLE for: FODDER STORE - FOG BELL — A bell mounted on an anchored vessel, buoy, headland, rock etc and rung as a warning to mariners in foggy weather.
Search the NHLE for: FOG BELL - FOG DISPERSAL PLANT — A system of petrol burners, pipework and pump houses on an airfield used to 'burn' away fog so that aircraft may take off and land safely.
Search the NHLE for: FOG DISPERSAL PLANT - FOG HORN — A structure found on lighthouses, piers, etc, capable of emitting a loud noise to warn shipping in foggy weather.
Search the NHLE for: FOG HORN - FOGOU — Underground chambers and stone passages of Iron Age date found in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: FOGOU - FOLLY — A structure, often found in 18th century landscape gardens, that demonstrates eccentricity or excess rather than practical purpose. They can take many forms - ruins, sham castles, towers, hermits' cells or grottoes.
Search the NHLE for: FOLLY - FONT — A vessel, usually made of stone, which contains the consecrated water for baptism. Use a broader monument type if possible.
Search the NHLE for: FONT - FONTEVRAULTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — A priory of double order of Fontevrault nuns and brethren.
Search the NHLE for: FONTEVRAULTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the large-scale production, processing and preserving of food and drink.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY SITE - FOOD AND DRINK PROCESSING SITE — Terms included here are for small scale agricultural production. See also FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY SITE grouping in INDUSTRIAL class.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD AND DRINK PROCESSING SITE - FOOD AND REST CENTRE — A building used as emergency accommodation and food distribution centre for people displaced by a natural disaster or conflict.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD AND REST CENTRE - FOOD DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage and distribution of food.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD DEPOT - FOOD DRYING KILN — A structure used for the drying of food using an indirect source of heat.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD DRYING KILN - FOOD DRYING ROOM — A room with special ventilation used for the slow drying of foodstuffs.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD DRYING ROOM - FOOD PRESERVING FACTORY — A factory where food is preserved either by freezing, salting or pickling
Search the NHLE for: FOOD PRESERVING FACTORY - FOOD PRESERVING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the preserving of food.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD PRESERVING SITE - FOOD PROCESSING PLANT — A factory or site for the manufacture of food stuffs from raw ingredients.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD PROCESSING PLANT - FOOD PROCESSING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the processing of foodstuffs.
Search the NHLE for: FOOD PROCESSING SITE - FOOT HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of foot disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: FOOT HOSPITAL - FOOTBALL GROUND — A site including a pitch, stands and other ancillary buildings associated with the game of football.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBALL GROUND - FOOTBALL PITCH — A prepared area of grass on which the game of football is played.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBALL PITCH - FOOTBALL TERRACE — A raised step, usually made of concrete, on which supporters stand to watch a game of football.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBALL TERRACE - FOOTBRIDGE — A narrow bridge for people and animals to cross on foot.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTBRIDGE - FOOTPATH — A path for pedestrians only.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTPATH - FOOTPRINT — An impression made in soft ground by a passing animal or human. The soft ground may have subsequently hardened.
Search the NHLE for: FOOTPRINT - FORD — A shallow place in a river or other stretch of water, where people, animals and vehicles may cross.
Search the NHLE for: FORD - FORD KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a ford keeper.
Search the NHLE for: FORD KEEPERS COTTAGE - FORECOURT — The court or enclosed space at the front of a building or structure.
Search the NHLE for: FORECOURT - FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE — A building in which an organization or society is instituted to promote foreign languages in England such as French and German, etc.
Search the NHLE for: FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE - FOREMANS HOUSE — A purpose-built dwelling for the supervisor of a factory, mine or other industrial complex.
Search the NHLE for: FOREMANS HOUSE - FOREST — A large tract of land covered with trees and interspersed with open areas of land. Traditionally forests were owned by the monarchy and had their own laws.
Search the NHLE for: FOREST - FOREST COURT — A medieval court established for the administration of forest law.
Search the NHLE for: FOREST COURT - FOREST LODGE — A building associated with the legal administration of a forest, eg. Forest of Dean.
Search the NHLE for: FOREST LODGE - FORGE — A building or site where bloom iron or cast iron is forged into wrought iron.
Search the NHLE for: FORGE - FORMAL GARDEN — A garden of regular, linear or geometrical design, often associated with the traditional Italian, French and Dutch styles.
Search the NHLE for: FORMAL GARDEN - FORT — A permanently occupied position or building designed primarily for defence.
Search the NHLE for: FORT - FORT ANNEXE — A small enclosure built onto the perimeter of a Roman fortress or fort.
Search the NHLE for: FORT ANNEXE - FORTIFICATION — A usually permanent defensive work. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFICATION - FORTIFIED BRIDGE — A bridge which is fortified at one or both ends.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED BRIDGE - FORTIFIED BUILDING — A building which has been fortified, often as a temporary measure rather than as part of the original design
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED BUILDING - FORTIFIED CHURCH — Any church which bears signs of fortification. Churches on the Welsh and Scottish borders were often fortified, only allowing access to the tower from a single opening in the nave.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED CHURCH - FORTIFIED HOUSE — A house which bears signs of fortification. These often include crenellated battlements and narrow slit-like windows.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED HOUSE - FORTIFIED MANOR HOUSE — A manor house, which was granted a royal licence to crenellate.
Search the NHLE for: FORTIFIED MANOR HOUSE - FORTLET — A fortified Roman site, usually under 1 hectare in area, strategically situated, housing small military patrols, often defended by a rampart, one or two ditches and a gate.
Search the NHLE for: FORTLET - FORTRESS — A major fortified place, often a town, capable of containing a large force. If Roman use LEGIONARY FORTRESS.
Search the NHLE for: FORTRESS - FORUM — A large, rectangular open space at the centre of a Roman town, incorporating public spaces and a market area.
Search the NHLE for: FORUM - FOUGASSE — A pit filled with rocks and metal, designed to be fired with an explosive charge.
Search the NHLE for: FOUGASSE - FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory for casting metals.
Search the NHLE for: FOUNDRY - FOUNTAIN — An artificial aperture from which water springs. The water supply usually came from a lake or reservoir higher up in order to ensure the necessary flow and pressure. More recently fountains have been powered by pumps.
Search the NHLE for: FOUNTAIN - FOUNTAIN HOUSE — A building, in a garden, park or open space, either housing a fountain or the machinery which powers one.
Search the NHLE for: FOUNTAIN HOUSE - FOUR POSTER STONE CIRCLE — A stone circle featuring four upright stones standing at the corners of an irregular quadrilateral. The monument may feature more than 4 stones, overall, but the corner stones are often the most prominent.
Search the NHLE for: FOUR POSTER STONE CIRCLE - FOX COVERT — A small area of managed woodland, created to provide cover for foxes.
Search the NHLE for: FOX COVERT - FRAGRANCE GARDEN — A garden specifically planted with sweet smelling, fragrant plants.
Search the NHLE for: FRAGRANCE GARDEN - FRAME YARD — A small enclosure containing cold frames, often of brick and glass construction, usually situated against the exterior of a walled garden's south-facing garden.
Search the NHLE for: FRAME YARD - FRAMEWORK KNITTERS COTTAGE — The dwelling and workshop of a framework knitter.
Search the NHLE for: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS COTTAGE - FRAMEWORK KNITTERS WORKSHOP — A room or building for hand knitting garments on simple hand frames.
Search the NHLE for: FRAMEWORK KNITTERS WORKSHOP - FRANCISCAN FRIARY — A friary belonging to the Franciscan order. Includes houses of both Friars Minor and Friars Observant or Capuchins.
Search the NHLE for: FRANCISCAN FRIARY - FRANCISCAN NUNNERY — An abbey of Franciscan nuns also known as Minoresses or Poor Clares.
Search the NHLE for: FRANCISCAN NUNNERY - FREE SCHOOL — A school where no fees were charged.
Search the NHLE for: FREE SCHOOL - FREEMASONS HALL — A meeting place for freemasons.
Search the NHLE for: FREEMASONS HALL - FRIARY — Houses specifically for men and of chiefly mendicant religious orders. The status of priory is represented in several friaries. Use with PRIORY if required.
Search the NHLE for: FRIARY - FRIARY OF CRUTCHED FRIARS — A friary belonging to the Crutched Friars also known as Crosiers or Fratres.
Search the NHLE for: FRIARY OF CRUTCHED FRIARS - FRIARY OF FRIARS OF THE SACK — A friary belonging to the Friars of the Sack also known as Friars of Penance or Penitentia.
Search the NHLE for: FRIARY OF FRIARS OF THE SACK - FRIARY OF PIED FRIARS — A friary belonging to the Pied Friars also known as Friars of Blessed Mary or St Mary de Arens.
Search the NHLE for: FRIARY OF PIED FRIARS - FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND — A place of burial for members of the Religious Society of Friends, often known as Quakers.
Search the NHLE for: FRIENDS BURIAL GROUND - FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE — A place of worship for members of the Religious Society of Friends, often known as Quakers. The Religious Society of Friends is a denomination founded by George Fox in c.1650 who believed in passivist principles and a rejection of the sacrament.
Search the NHLE for: FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE - FRITTING FURNACE — A furnace for the calcining and roasting of a mixture of sand and fluxes as a preparatory stage in glass-making.
Search the NHLE for: FRITTING FURNACE - FROMSON HANGAR — A small arched hangar built by the Canadian company Fromson of Byfleet to drawing number 3971/43. Used only as storage sheds on RNASs.
Search the NHLE for: FROMSON HANGAR - FROMSON MASSILLON HANGAR — Similar in design to the FROMSON HANGAR but designed to drawing number 3752/43 and used for storing aircraft with small wingspans.
Search the NHLE for: FROMSON MASSILLON HANGAR - FRONT GABLED HOUSE — A house with a pitched roof with a double slope and gables on the front and rear elevations of the building.
Search the NHLE for: FRONT GABLED HOUSE - FRONTIER DEFENCE — A system of fortifications constructed along a national frontier to contain the local population, as well as keep out undesirable raiders eg. Offa's Dyke. Use with more specific monument type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FRONTIER DEFENCE - FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET — An indoor or outdoor market where fruit and vegetables are sold.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET - FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WAREHOUSE — A warehouse used for the storage of fruit and/or vegetables.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT AND VEGETABLE WAREHOUSE - FRUIT GROWING WALL — A usually south-facing wall used for the cultivation of fruit plants.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT GROWING WALL - FRUIT STORE — A building used for the storage of picked fruit.
Search the NHLE for: FRUIT STORE - FUEL DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage and distribution of fuel.
Search the NHLE for: FUEL DEPOT - FUEL PRODUCTION SITE — Includes sites associated with extraction.
Search the NHLE for: FUEL PRODUCTION SITE - FUEL STORE — A place where material used for burning is stored.
Search the NHLE for: FUEL STORE - FUEL TANK — A large, usually metal, container used for the storage of liquid fuels.
Search the NHLE for: FUEL TANK - FUELLING STATION — A facility used for the storage and distribution of fuel for transportation. Often associated with dockyards and railways.
Search the NHLE for: FUELLING STATION - FULLERS EARTH PIT — A pit for the extraction of fullers earth (a hydrous silicate of alumina), which was used for cleansing, and finishing, cloth and wool.
Search the NHLE for: FULLERS EARTH PIT - FULLING MILL — A mill for beating and cleaning cloth, using soap or fullers earth.
Search the NHLE for: FULLING MILL - FULLING STOCKS — Large wooden hammer beams pounding cloth in a fulling solution.
Search the NHLE for: FULLING STOCKS - FUN HOUSE — Fairground attraction designed to create optical illusions to give a sense of unbalance and unease.
Search the NHLE for: FUN HOUSE - FUNCTION ROOM — A place where social and other functions such as parties, presentations and meetings can be held.
Search the NHLE for: FUNCTION ROOM - FUNDAMENTAL BENCH MARK — Used by Ordnance Survey to record high accuracy height above Ordnance Datum Newlyn. Marked by a low concrete pillar, and maybe surrounded by railings, they comprise an underground chamber protecting the reference point, built directly onto stable bedrock.
Search the NHLE for: FUNDAMENTAL BENCH MARK - FUNERAL CHAPEL — A chapel within a parish church containing an altar and one or more tombs.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERAL CHAPEL - FUNERAL DIRECTORS — The establishment of an undertaker who is responsible for the management of the ceremony connected with the burial or cremation of a dead body.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERAL DIRECTORS - FUNERAL PYRE — A structure consisting of combustible material, typically wood, on which a body is placed and then cremated, sometimes with accompanying grave goods. Use only when evidence of structure exists.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERAL PYRE - FUNERARY BUILDING — A building associated with funerary rites and burials.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERARY BUILDING - FUNERARY ENCLOSURE — An enclosure, usually private, used for burial. Often found within a cemetery.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERARY ENCLOSURE - FUNERARY SITE — Site types normally or frequently associated with burials which in some instances may have had solely religious or ritual functions.
Search the NHLE for: FUNERARY SITE - FUNICULAR RAILWAY — A cable railway with ascending and descending cars counterbalanced.
Search the NHLE for: FUNICULAR RAILWAY - FUR FACTORY — A building or complex where skins are prepared, with their hair still on, to make fur products.
Search the NHLE for: FUR FACTORY - FURLONG BOUNDARY — Linear earthwork boundary denoting furlongs
Search the NHLE for: FURLONG BOUNDARY - FURNACE — A chamber in which minerals, metals, etc, are subjected to the continuous action of intense heat. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: FURNACE - FURNACE POND — A pond used as a water supply for the operation of a furnace or blast furnace.
Search the NHLE for: FURNACE POND - FURNITURE FACTORY — A factory where furniture is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE FACTORY - FURNITURE SHOP — A shop selling household furniture.
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE SHOP - FURNITURE SHOWROOM — A room specifically used for the display of furniture and other related materials
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE SHOWROOM - FURNITURE WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used for the storage of furniture or furniture related materials.
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE WAREHOUSE - FURNITURE WORKSHOP — A workshop for the manufacturing of furniture.
Search the NHLE for: FURNITURE WORKSHOP - FURRIERS SHOP — A place where furs are made into finished products.
Search the NHLE for: FURRIERS SHOP - FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE — An educational establishment primarily for children aged 16-18 years old but can provide education for more mature students.
Search the NHLE for: FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGE
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- GABLED HOUSE — A house with a pitched or gabled roof with a double slope and gables on two or more sides.
Search the NHLE for: GABLED HOUSE - GALILEE — A chapel in a church for penitents.
Search the NHLE for: GALILEE - GALLERIED ROW — A row of houses linked at first floor level by an open continuous gallery which runs through the front of the buildings. Access to the gallery was gained by flights of steps. Commonly found in the city of Chester.
Search the NHLE for: GALLERIED ROW - GALLERIED ROW HOUSE — A house within a row. At first floor level a gallery which runs through the front of the building. Access to the gallery was gained by steps set at intervals along the row. Commonly found in the city of Chester.
Search the NHLE for: GALLERIED ROW HOUSE - GALLOWS — A structure used for execution by hanging. Usually two uprights and a cross-piece, from which the offender is suspended by the neck.
Search the NHLE for: GALLOWS - GALLOWS MOUND — A natural or man-made earth mound on which a gallows was erected.
Search the NHLE for: GALLOWS MOUND - GALVANIZING WORKSHOP — A place where an anti-corrosion coating of zinc is added to iron and steel products to prevent them from rusting.
Search the NHLE for: GALVANIZING WORKSHOP - GAMBLING SITE — Buildings where gambling takes place.
Search the NHLE for: GAMBLING SITE - GAME COVERT — A small area of managed woodland, created to provide cover for deer and other game.
Search the NHLE for: GAME COVERT - GAME LARDER — A small building in which game is hung up and kept cool.
Search the NHLE for: GAME LARDER - GAMING HOUSE — An establishment used for gambling.
Search the NHLE for: GAMING HOUSE - GANGWAY — A raised platform or walkway connecting two buildings or a ship with the quay, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GANGWAY - GANTRY — A framework, often made of steel, supporting a crane or similar structure, or for supporting a platform or stage.
Search the NHLE for: GANTRY - GANTRY CRANE — A crane mounted on a large metal gantry, used for the lifting of large-scale building materials, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GANTRY CRANE - GAOL — An institution for the imprisonment of felons and debtors.
Search the NHLE for: GAOL - GARAGE — Use only for buildings which house motor vehicles. Includes garages for vehicle repair. For petrol sales use PETROL STATION.
Search the NHLE for: GARAGE - GARDEN — An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit or vegetables and/or recreational purposes. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN - GARDEN ARCADE — A series of arches, linked together, often made out of clipped hedges or trees with the trunks forming the uprights
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN ARCADE - GARDEN BASIN — A decorative garden ornament, usually of stone, in the form of a wide, shallow dish.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN BASIN - GARDEN BUILDING — Includes some structures that are not strictly buildings. Use a more specific term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN BUILDING - GARDEN CENTRE — A place where gardening tools, plants, etc, are sold.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN CENTRE - GARDEN CITY — A planned, self-contained, community incorporating green open spaces and containing housing, industrial and agricultural zones.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN CITY - GARDEN FEATURE — Unspecified landscape feature. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN FEATURE - GARDEN HOUSE — A small ornamental building in a garden, usually one-storeyed and consisting of one room. Use a more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN HOUSE - GARDEN OF REST — Garden associated with a crematorium where the ashes of the deceased are scattered or buried.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN OF REST - GARDEN ORNAMENT — A decorative or ornamental structure purposefully situated in a garden. Such as sculptures, sundials, bird baths, gnomes etc.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN ORNAMENT - GARDEN PATH — A path in a garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN PATH - GARDEN PORCH — A roofed, lightweight structure, usually attached to a house, provdiing access from and to the garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN PORCH - GARDEN RETREAT — A structure or building, often within a secluded area of a garden, where people could go for quiet reflection.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN RETREAT - GARDEN SCREEN — Ornamental wrought iron screen associated with gate lodges or entrance lodges.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SCREEN - GARDEN SEAT — A type of GARDEN HOUSE, usually in the form of an open-fronted shelter with seat.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SEAT - GARDEN SHED — A structure in a garden used to house gardening implements, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SHED - GARDEN STEPS — Stone, brick or wooden steps or stairs found in a garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN STEPS - GARDEN SUBURB — A town laid out systematically with spacious and garden-like surroundings.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN SUBURB - GARDEN TABLE — A table found in a garden, often made of stone.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN TABLE - GARDEN TEMPLE — A garden building, usually in the Gothic or classical style. The term can be applied to many types of garden building with an interior space in which to stand or sit. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN TEMPLE - GARDEN TERRACE — A flat, level area of ground within a garden. Often raised and accessed by steps.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN TERRACE - GARDEN VILLAGE — A village laid out systematically with spacious and garden-like surroundings.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN VILLAGE - GARDEN WALL — A stone or brick wall either in, or enclosing, a garden.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEN WALL - GARDENS PARKS AND URBAN SPACES — Planned &/or landscaped areas designed for aesthetic or recreational purposes. Includes all sites, buildings, structures & features normally associated with parks & urban spaces including street furniture.
Search the NHLE for: GARDENS PARKS AND URBAN SPACES - GARDEROBE — A small latrine or toilet, usually built into the thickness of the wall of a castle or great house, with the waste dropping into a cess pit or straight to the outside.
Search the NHLE for: GARDEROBE - GAS CHAMBER — A C20th military building used to test the efficiency of gas protection equipment provided for drivers of all forms of vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: GAS CHAMBER - GAS COMPRESSOR STATION — A facility where natural gas is made smaller in volume, to facilitate its distribution through the National Transmission System. Term can also be used for a station, which recompresses the gas to the required pressure.
Search the NHLE for: GAS COMPRESSOR STATION - GAS ENGINE — A machine producing mechanical power by the internal combustion of gas.
Search the NHLE for: GAS ENGINE - GAS ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing a gas engine, used as a power source for driving other machinery.
Search the NHLE for: GAS ENGINE HOUSE - GAS FIRED POWER STATION — A power station used to produce electricity, fired by coal gas.
Search the NHLE for: GAS FIRED POWER STATION - GAS HOLDER — Expanding storage tank for gas, often includes a meter for measuring the amount used.
Search the NHLE for: GAS HOLDER - GAS HOUSE — An ancilliary building, usually to provide gas for lighting a particular building (eg. railway stations, factories, etc) as opposed to public GAS WORKS.
Search the NHLE for: GAS HOUSE - GAS LAMP — A street lamp in which the light is produced by the burning of coal gas. More recently natural gas has been used.
Search the NHLE for: GAS LAMP - GAS MASK FACTORY — Building or buildings used for the production of Gas Masks. Consider double-indexing with the term WAR PRODUCTION FACTORY if appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: GAS MASK FACTORY - GAS METER HOUSE — A building in which apparatus registering the amount of gas consumed is housed.
Search the NHLE for: GAS METER HOUSE - GAS PLANT — A factory, works or structure used for the manufacture and purification of gas.
Search the NHLE for: GAS PLANT - GAS PURIFIER — A mechanism through which crude coal gas is passed to remove any impurities eg Ammonia and Sulphur.
Search the NHLE for: GAS PURIFIER - GAS STORAGE TANK — Storage tank for coal gas and possibly other types of gas .
Search the NHLE for: GAS STORAGE TANK - GAS TESTING TRENCH — A purpose-built trench used to test chemical warfare weapons.
Search the NHLE for: GAS TESTING TRENCH - GAS TURBINE — A turbine driven by gas flow or the gas from combustion.
Search the NHLE for: GAS TURBINE - GAS WORKS — An industrial complex concerned with the manufacture of gas for domestic use from coal and oil.
Search the NHLE for: GAS WORKS - GATE — A movable stucture which enables or prevents entrance to be gained. Usually situated in a wall or similar barrier and supported by gate posts.
Search the NHLE for: GATE - GATE GUARDIAN — A vehicle or aircraft placed at the entrance to a site as a symbolic guardian.
Search the NHLE for: GATE GUARDIAN - GATE LODGE — A dwelling, located at the entrance, or gates, to an estate or park, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GATE LODGE - GATE PIER — A pier of brick, masonry, etc, to which the hinges of a gate are attached.
Search the NHLE for: GATE PIER - GATE TOWER — A tower, containing a gate, built into the walls of a town, castle or similar fortification.
Search the NHLE for: GATE TOWER - GATEHOUSE — A gateway with one or more chambers over the entrance arch; the flanking towers housing stairs and additional rooms. Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GATEHOUSE - GATEMANS HUT — A small building used by a gatekeeper.
Search the NHLE for: GATEMANS HUT - GATEWAY — A substantial structure supporting or surrounding a gate. May be ornate or monumental, and have associated structures such as lodges, tollbooths, guard houses etc.
Search the NHLE for: GATEWAY - GAUGE HOUSE — A building on a river or canal in which the water levels are controlled.
Search the NHLE for: GAUGE HOUSE - GAUGING STATION — Canal docks where the freeboard of a boat was marked. By placing increasing ton weights at 4 points around the boat, its displacement could be marked for toll purposes.
Search the NHLE for: GAUGING STATION - GAZEBO — A garden house situated to provide a commanding view.
Search the NHLE for: GAZEBO - GELATINE WORKS (ANIMAL PRODUCT) — A works producing gelatine from animal products for use as a culinary setting agent and in the photography, dyeing, brewing and glue industries. For explosives use GELATINE WORKS (EXPLOSIVE)
Search the NHLE for: GELATINE WORKS (ANIMAL PRODUCT) - GELATINE WORKS (EXPLOSIVE) — A factory or works principally engaged in the manufacture of blasing or explosive gelatine.
Search the NHLE for: GELATINE WORKS (EXPLOSIVE) - GELIGNITE WORKS — A factory or works principally engaged in the manufacture of the explosive Gelignite.
Search the NHLE for: GELIGNITE WORKS - GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for General Baptists, a movement established by John Smyth in 1603 and which grew out of the original Baptist church. They believed in free will and are often referred to simply as Baptists.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL BAPTIST CHAPEL - GENERAL HOSPITAL — A non-specialist hospital dealing in general medical and surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL HOSPITAL - GENERAL SERVICE AEROPLANE REPAIR SHED — 1st World War end-opening aeroplane hangar.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL SERVICE AEROPLANE REPAIR SHED - GENERAL SERVICE AEROPLANE SHED — 1st World War end-opening aeroplane hangar.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL SERVICE AEROPLANE SHED - GENERAL SERVICE FLIGHT SHED — 1st World War end-opening aeroplane hangar.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL SERVICE FLIGHT SHED - GENERAL SERVICE SHED — 1st World War end-opening aeroplane hangar.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL SERVICE SHED - GENERAL STORE — A shop selling a variety of goods and merchandise.
Search the NHLE for: GENERAL STORE - GENERATOR HOUSE — A building housing a generator.
Search the NHLE for: GENERATOR HOUSE - GENTLEMENS CLUB — A building with a range of facilities for the exclusive use of its all-male membership. Rooms were often provided as offices or short term accommodation, and the club could be used for business or social gatherings.
Search the NHLE for: GENTLEMENS CLUB - GEOLOGICAL MARKS — Soil marks and other features of natural origin, including periglacial frost wedging, solifluction deposits, abandoned water courses, etc, recorded to avoid future confusion with features of human origin.
Search the NHLE for: GEOLOGICAL MARKS - GERIATRIC HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where the elderly receive medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: GERIATRIC HOSPITAL - GIBBET — An upright post with projecting arm from which the body of a criminal would be hung in chains after execution.
Search the NHLE for: GIBBET - GIG MILL — A woollen mill in which the cloth was passed over rollers covered in short spikes to raise the nap in one direction only.
Search the NHLE for: GIG MILL - GILBERTINE CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Gilbertine order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE CELL - GILBERTINE DOUBLE HOUSE — A priory of Gilbertine double order of nuns and canons.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE DOUBLE HOUSE - GILBERTINE GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Gilbertine order.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE GRANGE - GILBERTINE MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Gilbertine monks.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE MONASTERY - GILBERTINE NUNNERY — An abbey or priory of Gilbertine Nuns.
Search the NHLE for: GILBERTINE NUNNERY - GIN PALACE — An ornate public house that developed in the 1830s after the passing of a law to encourage the drinking of beer in alehouses licensed for the sale of beer only.
Search the NHLE for: GIN PALACE - GIOCHI D'ACQUA — A water feature intended to play a trick on a visitor by drenching them unexpectedly. The device would be triggered by the visitors foot or remotely. Italian for 'water jokes'.
Search the NHLE for: GIOCHI D'ACQUA - GIRAFFE HOUSE — A building in a zoo or wildlife park used to accommodate giraffes.
Search the NHLE for: GIRAFFE HOUSE - GIRDER BRIDGE — A bridge supported by large beams or girders, originally of wood or iron, now usually of steel or reinforced concrete.
Search the NHLE for: GIRDER BRIDGE - GLACIS — An artificial mound of earth outside a ditch or wall intended to deflect or absorb cannon fire.
Search the NHLE for: GLACIS - GLASS CONE — A conical brick structure in which glass articles were made.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS CONE - GLASS FURNACE — A furnace for the manufacture of glass. Includes glass cones, open hearth and oil-fired furnaces.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS FURNACE - GLASS WORKING SITE — A site used for the production and/or working of glass.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS WORKING SITE - GLASS WORKS — A site where all the processes for the production of glass and objects made from glass are carried out.
Search the NHLE for: GLASS WORKS - GLASSHOUSE — A building made chiefly of glass, used to grow plants and fruit in. Use more specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: GLASSHOUSE - GLASSMAKING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of glass.
Search the NHLE for: GLASSMAKING SITE - GLAZE AND REEL HOUSE — A building containing equipment used for the polishing of grains of gunpowder and extraction of the resulting dust.
Search the NHLE for: GLAZE AND REEL HOUSE - GLOVE FACTORY — A factory where gloves are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: GLOVE FACTORY - GLOVERS COTTAGE — The residence of a glover.
Search the NHLE for: GLOVERS COTTAGE - GLUE FACTORY — A factory where glue is produced.
Search the NHLE for: GLUE FACTORY - GOAL POST ENCLOSURE — A single ditched 3-sided rectilinear enclosure.
Search the NHLE for: GOAL POST ENCLOSURE - GOLD MINE — A place where gold ore is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: GOLD MINE - GOLDSMITHS WORKSHOP — A place where gold is worked into articles or products.
Search the NHLE for: GOLDSMITHS WORKSHOP - GOLF BUNKER — An obstacle on a golf course constituting a hazard. Usually taking the form of a sand trap or dirt mound.
Search the NHLE for: GOLF BUNKER - GOLF CLUB — A golf course, clubhouse and ancilliary buildings.
Search the NHLE for: GOLF CLUB - GOLF COURSE — A prepared area of ground used to play the game of golf on.
Search the NHLE for: GOLF COURSE - GOLF LINKS — A golf course, usually situated on or near the coast, consisting of sand dunes with few trees or water obstacles.
Search the NHLE for: GOLF LINKS - GOODS CLEARING HOUSE — A building in which goods were kept prior to being cleared by customs officers.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS CLEARING HOUSE - GOODS SHED — A building in which railway wagons can unload local goods.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS SHED - GOODS STATION — A railway station or platform built specifically for the loading and unloading of goods.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS STATION - GOODS YARD — A site where merchandise and goods are temporarily stored before or after transportation by rail.
Search the NHLE for: GOODS YARD - GOOSE PEN — An enclosure or pen for confining geese.
Search the NHLE for: GOOSE PEN - GOOSEHOLE — A type of goose pen with stone-clad compartments, built into the base of a Cornish hedge near the periphery of a farmstead. Aspect is often towards entrance track or driveway since geese were used in similar role to guard dogs. Particular to Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: GOOSEHOLE - GOVERNMENT OFFICE — The offices of a Government Department responsible for the administration of the country.
Search the NHLE for: GOVERNMENT OFFICE - GRADUATE HOUSE — A place where students live, sometimes on a college campus.
Search the NHLE for: GRADUATE HOUSE - GRAFFITI — Casual scribbles or pictographs on ancient walls, stones or other surfaces. In more recent times applied to humourous, satiric or obscene writings or drawings executed anonymously in public places.
Search the NHLE for: GRAFFITI - GRAIN DRIER — A building or room within a granary used to dry grain. Often consisting of an oven with a refractory-brick drying floor above, on which the grain was placed.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN DRIER - GRAIN ELEVATOR — A machine used for the loading and unloading of grain to and from a warehouse
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN ELEVATOR - GRAIN SILO — A tower used to store grain in.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN SILO - GRAIN STORAGE PIT — A pit where grain is stored.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN STORAGE PIT - GRAIN WAREHOUSE — A large building used for the storage of grain.
Search the NHLE for: GRAIN WAREHOUSE - GRAMMAR SCHOOL — A school founded in or before the 16th century, for teaching Latin, later becoming a secondary school teaching languages, history, science, etc.
Search the NHLE for: GRAMMAR SCHOOL - GRANARY — A building, or first-floor room in a building, for the dry and secure storage of grain after it has been threshed and winnowed.
Search the NHLE for: GRANARY - GRAND HOTEL — A large, luxuriously appointed hotel.
Search the NHLE for: GRAND HOTEL - GRANDMONTINE MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Grandmontine monks.
Search the NHLE for: GRANDMONTINE MONASTERY - GRANDSTAND — The principal stand at a sporting ground, eg. at a racecourse.
Search the NHLE for: GRANDSTAND - GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate, usually belonging to a religious order or feudal lord. Specifically related to core buildings and structures associated with monastic land holding. Use specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: GRANGE - GRANGE BARN — A barn belonging to, or associated with, a grange.
Search the NHLE for: GRANGE BARN - GRANITE QUARRY — A site where granite is excavated.
Search the NHLE for: GRANITE QUARRY - GRAPHITE MINE — A place where graphite is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: GRAPHITE MINE - GRASS DRYING SHED — A modern fodder store on a farm.
Search the NHLE for: GRASS DRYING SHED - GRAVE — A place of burial. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVE - GRAVE LINING — Material, stone or wood, lining the inside of a grave.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVE LINING - GRAVE MARKER — A stone, slate, iron or wooden structure used to mark the site of a grave. Use only where evidence of the form is uncertain otherwise use more specific type.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVE MARKER - GRAVE SLAB — A stone used to cover a grave.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVE SLAB - GRAVEBOARD — Wooden board marking a grave.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVEBOARD - GRAVEL PATH — A path covered in a layer of water-worn or pounded stones.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVEL PATH - GRAVEL PIT — A steep-sided pit formed by, and for, the extraction of gravel.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVEL PIT - GRAVESIDE SHELTER — A shelter for the parson during the burial service.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVESIDE SHELTER - GRAVESTONE — A stone placed over or at the head or foot of a grave, or at the entrance of a tomb.
Search the NHLE for: GRAVESTONE - GREASE WORKS — Recovery and removal of grease (lanolin) from raw wool.
Search the NHLE for: GREASE WORKS - GREAT HALL — A large communal room often occupying the full height of the building, used for functions such as meetings, entertainments etc. Traditionally found in medieval buildings but also found in later buildings emulating medieval architecture.
Search the NHLE for: GREAT HALL - GREAT HOUSE — A large house dating from the 16th century onwards, built as a symbol of the wealth and status of the owner but not intended to be defensible unlike the castles and manor houses it replaced.
Search the NHLE for: GREAT HOUSE - GREAT ROOM — A roomspace within an abode which combines the specific functions of several of the more traditional roomspaces into a singular unified space.
Search the NHLE for: GREAT ROOM - GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the Greek Orthodox Church, the national church of Greece.
Search the NHLE for: GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH - GREENGROCERS SHOP — A shop which sells vegetables and fruit.
Search the NHLE for: GREENGROCERS SHOP - GRENADE RANGE — An area of ground where training in the use of grenades can be carried out.
Search the NHLE for: GRENADE RANGE - GREYHOUND STADIUM — Stadium housing a track and associated buildings and structures for the public racing of greyhounds.
Search the NHLE for: GREYHOUND STADIUM - GRIDIRON — A heavy framework of parallel beams used to support a ship in dock.
Search the NHLE for: GRIDIRON - GRILLE — An open grating of wrought iron, bronze or wood, forming a screen to a door, window or other opening, or used as a divider.
Search the NHLE for: GRILLE - GRINDERY — A place for sharpening metal objects like tools and weapons.
Search the NHLE for: GRINDERY - GRINDERY DEALERS SHOP — A shop housing the business of a grindery dealer. Grindery are the tools and materials used by shoemakers and other leather-workers.
Search the NHLE for: GRINDERY DEALERS SHOP - GRINDING HOUSE — A building for the crushing of stones and minerals.
Search the NHLE for: GRINDING HOUSE - GRINDSTONE — A large disc of stone revolving on an axis, used for grinding, sharpening and polishing.
Search the NHLE for: GRINDSTONE - GROCERS SHOP — A shop selling tea, butter, flour, sugar, spices, tinned foods and miscellaneous household stores.
Search the NHLE for: GROCERS SHOP - GROTTO — A shady cavern built as a garden feature. In the 18th century it usually took the form of an artificial rocky cave or apartment decorated with stalactites and shells in a wild part of the grounds.
Search the NHLE for: GROTTO - GROUP FILTER ROOM — A building, often with underground rooms, used to receive all reports of aircraft locations, to assimilate and assess this information in order to provide the most accurate possible picture to the Operations Room of a fighter or bomber Group.
Search the NHLE for: GROUP FILTER ROOM - GROUP HEADQUARTERS — A building used as a headquarters and reporting centre for an Army, Navy or Air Force Group.
Search the NHLE for: GROUP HEADQUARTERS - GROYNE — A structure extending into the sea for the purpose of preventing further movement of washed up sand and shingle.
Search the NHLE for: GROYNE - GRUBENHAUS — A timber building based around a sunken hollow, the floor of which may have been suspended above the hollow to counteract dampness. Grubenhauser are believed to date from the 5th to 8th centuries AD but may be earlier. Use Grubenhauser as plural.
Search the NHLE for: GRUBENHAUS - GUARD TOWER — A watchtower used to guard prisons, camps or other facilities.
Search the NHLE for: GUARD TOWER - GUARDHOUSE — A building used for the accommodation of a military guard and/or the detainment of prisoners.
Search the NHLE for: GUARDHOUSE - GUEST COTTAGE — Cottage provided for guests to a country house.
Search the NHLE for: GUEST COTTAGE - GUEST HOUSE — A separate residence for guests, a house on a private estate or a monastery building specifically for receiving visitors.
Search the NHLE for: GUEST HOUSE - GUEST WING — A seperate wing of a large house provide accommodation for guests.
Search the NHLE for: GUEST WING - GUIBAL FAN HOUSE — A ventilating fan house with an expanding chimney.
Search the NHLE for: GUIBAL FAN HOUSE - GUILD CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of a guild.
Search the NHLE for: GUILD CHAPEL - GUILDHALL — Traditionally, the hall of a crafts, trade, or merchants' guild. Nowadays, often used to describe a TOWN HALL.
Search the NHLE for: GUILDHALL - GUILLOTINE LOCK — A lock where the gates rise vertically. Rarely found on canals but common on navgable rivers in the Fens, particularly the river Nene.
Search the NHLE for: GUILLOTINE LOCK - GULLY — A deep gutter, drain or sink.
Search the NHLE for: GULLY - GUN EMPLACEMENT — A fortified site in which a gun, mortar or cannon is positioned.
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT - GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55414) — A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55414.
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55414) - GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55415) — A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55415.
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55415) - GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55422) — A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55422.
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55422) - GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55483) — A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55483.
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55483) - GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55491) — A gun emplacement which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55491.
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55491) - GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55503) — A gun emplacment which conforms to Department of Fortification and Works drawing number 55503
Search the NHLE for: GUN EMPLACEMENT (TYPE 55503) - GUN LAYING RADAR PLATFORM — A platform, usually in concrete, on which radar equipment was mounted to assist the targetting of artillery guns. The platform is often the only evidence surviving in the landscape.
Search the NHLE for: GUN LAYING RADAR PLATFORM - GUN STORE — A building used for the storage of artillery pieces.
Search the NHLE for: GUN STORE - GUN TESTING SHOP — A workshop for testing guns, incorporating louvred sheds to serve as firing ranges.
Search the NHLE for: GUN TESTING SHOP - GUN WHARF — A large, level structure, usually of stone or timber, built alongside water to allow warships to moor for the loading and unloading of guns.
Search the NHLE for: GUN WHARF - GUNCOTTON FACTORY — A factory or works engaged in the manufacture of the explosive guncotton. They may be found as separate factories or form part of a cordite factory.
Search the NHLE for: GUNCOTTON FACTORY - GUNCOTTON STOVE — A building in which moist guncotton is dried by warm air for use in nitroglycerine manufacture.
Search the NHLE for: GUNCOTTON STOVE - GUNPOST — Term used by the RAF to describe an open walled structure built of concrete, brick or sandbags which enclosed one or more machine-guns mounted on pintels for light anti-aircraft and ground defence.
Search the NHLE for: GUNPOST - GUNPOWDER DRYING HOUSE — A processing house where surplus water is removed from gunpowder after incorporating.
Search the NHLE for: GUNPOWDER DRYING HOUSE - GUNPOWDER MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production, testing and storage of gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: GUNPOWDER MANUFACTURING SITE - GUNPOWDER WORKS — A site used for the manufacture of gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: GUNPOWDER WORKS - GYMNASIUM (SPORTS) — A building or room, originally equipped for gymnastics or indoor sports but also, more recently, equipped with cross-training machines and free-weights for members to improve their physical fitness.
Search the NHLE for: GYMNASIUM (SPORTS) - GYPSUM BURIAL — An inhumation burial in which the body is covered by a shroud, placed in a coffin of stone, wood or lead and covered with gypsum, plaster or lime. Roman and early Medieval.
Search the NHLE for: GYPSUM BURIAL - GYPSUM DRYING KILN — A kiln where gypsum was dried to a state where it could be used as plaster of Paris or for the production of cement.
Search the NHLE for: GYPSUM DRYING KILN - GYPSUM MINE — A site where gypsum and anhydrate is mined.
Search the NHLE for: GYPSUM MINE - GYPSUM QUARRY — A place where gypsum is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: GYPSUM QUARRY - GYRUS — A sunken arena used by the Romans for training cavalry horses and recruits.
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- HA HA — A dry ditch or sunken fence which divided the formal garden from the landscaped park without interrupting the view.
Search the NHLE for: HA HA - HACKNEY STABLE — A stable used for riding horses or those used to pull coaches, gigs, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HACKNEY STABLE - HAIRDRESSERS SALON — An establishment where people get their hair dressed and cut.
Search the NHLE for: HAIRDRESSERS SALON - HALF BRICK HUT — A type of temporary military hutting used throughout WWII constructed of brick in 'stretcher bond' 4.5 inches thick with a light steel truss roof usually covered with corrugated asbestos sheeting. Used for accommodation, as gyms, training huts etc.
Search the NHLE for: HALF BRICK HUT - HALF THROUGH BRIDGE — A bridge whose trusses or girders form parapets on either side of the deck.
Search the NHLE for: HALF THROUGH BRIDGE - HALF TIDE DOCK — A dock with gates which open for access for some hours before and after high water.
Search the NHLE for: HALF TIDE DOCK - HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a public hall with private living accommodation attached. Built from the medieval period onwards.
Search the NHLE for: HALL HOUSE - HALL OF RESIDENCE — A university or college building set apart for residence or instruction of students. They can be located either on or off campus.
Search the NHLE for: HALL OF RESIDENCE - HAMLET — Small settlement with no ecclesiastical or lay administrative function.
Search the NHLE for: HAMLET - HAMMER — A machine in which a heavy block of metal is used for beating, breaking or driving something.
Search the NHLE for: HAMMER - HAMMER MILL — A mill, including a forge and powered hammers where hot metal is shaped by hammering and rolling.
Search the NHLE for: HAMMER MILL - HAMMER POND — Pond, created specifically for providing power to water-powered forges, blast furnaces, helve or other hammers.
Search the NHLE for: HAMMER POND - HAND CRANE — A mechanism used for lifting and lowering weights, operated by hand.
Search the NHLE for: HAND CRANE - HAND PUMP — A hand operated mechanism used to raise and move water, liquids, compressed gases etc.
Search the NHLE for: HAND PUMP - HANDBALL WALL — A wall used in the game of handball.
Search the NHLE for: HANDBALL WALL - HANDCRAFT HUT — A prefabricated structure consisting of trough shaped asbestos sheets bolted together to form a seven sided building in section with end walls of rendered brick. Manufactured from 1942 by the Universal Asbestos Company for use as airfield accommodation.
Search the NHLE for: HANDCRAFT HUT - HANDLING HOUSE — Workshop for placing handles on mugs, teapots, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HANDLING HOUSE - HANGAR — A large shed for the housing of aircraft, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HANGAR - HARBOUR — A sheltered port for ships.
Search the NHLE for: HARBOUR - HARD — A firm beach or foreshore used for landing and loading of ships and other vessels. In more recent times hards have been reinforced with concrete.
Search the NHLE for: HARD - HARD STANDING — A purpose-built area of hard material of indeterminate use.
Search the NHLE for: HARD STANDING - HARDENED AIRCRAFT SHELTER — A type of military aircraft hangar of the Cold War, hardened and therefore protected against the effects of nuclear weapons. It comprises a semi-circular structure built of corrugated-steel supporting a reinforced-concrete skin. Three NATO designs.
Search the NHLE for: HARDENED AIRCRAFT SHELTER - HARDWARE FACTORY — A factory where general hardware, fittings, items of ironmongery are produced.
Search the NHLE for: HARDWARE FACTORY - HARDWARE SHOP — A shop selling ironmonger's goods, household tools and utensils.
Search the NHLE for: HARDWARE SHOP - HARDWARE SHOWROOM — A room to display various items of hardware and ironmongery.
Search the NHLE for: HARDWARE SHOWROOM - HARDWARE WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used specifically to store items of hardware and ironmongery.
Search the NHLE for: HARDWARE WAREHOUSE - HARE WARREN — An area of land, usually enclosed, set aside for the breeding of hares.
Search the NHLE for: HARE WARREN - HAT FACTORY — A factory where hats are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: HAT FACTORY - HATCHELLING HOUSE — A workshop for combining flax or hemp as a preparatory stage of rope making.
Search the NHLE for: HATCHELLING HOUSE - HATTERS WORKSHOP — A place where hats are made and sold.
Search the NHLE for: HATTERS WORKSHOP - HAULAGE ENGINE HOUSE — Engine driving a continuous wire rope for the haulage of tubs in a mine and at the heapstead.
Search the NHLE for: HAULAGE ENGINE HOUSE - HAUNTED HOUSE — Fairground attraction containing a number of ghoulish displays designed to scare visitors.
Search the NHLE for: HAUNTED HOUSE - HAY AND STRAW MARKET — An indoor or outdoor market where hay and straw is sold.
Search the NHLE for: HAY AND STRAW MARKET - HAY BARN — A special type of barn, lacking a threshing floor, usually with open walls, intended for the dry and well ventilated storage of hay only.
Search the NHLE for: HAY BARN - HAYLOFT — A loft over a stable or barn used for storing hay.
Search the NHLE for: HAYLOFT - HEAD RACE — Water channel leading to water wheel.
Search the NHLE for: HEAD RACE - HEADSTOCK — Machinery for raising and lowering men and equipment to and from the surface of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: HEADSTOCK - HEADSTOCK SUPPORT — Platform, usually stone-built, which holds the winding gear of a mine shaft.
Search the NHLE for: HEADSTOCK SUPPORT - HEALTH AND WELFARE — Sites, buildings, structures & features associated with health (for example, treatment of the sick) &/or social welfare (for example, alleviation of poverty), including all charitable foundations & all forms of state defined social welfare.
Search the NHLE for: HEALTH AND WELFARE - HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT — Buildings and structures associated with good health and recreation.
Search the NHLE for: HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT - HEALTH FARM — A place where people can recover from illnesses or health problems through controlled eating and programmes of exercise, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HEALTH FARM - HEALTH WORKERS HOUSE — The residence of health workers. Includes single dwellings of doctors, nurses etc. but not multiple dwellings eg.NURSES HOSTEL
Search the NHLE for: HEALTH WORKERS HOUSE - HEAPSTEAD — Buildings and works around a mine shaft with an artificial embankment on which the winding gear etc, is located.
Search the NHLE for: HEAPSTEAD - HEARSE HOUSE — A type of carriage house, usually in a churchyard, for storing a hearse.
Search the NHLE for: HEARSE HOUSE - HEART HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of heart disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: HEART HOSPITAL - HEARTH — The slab or place on which a fire is made.
Search the NHLE for: HEARTH - HEATED WALL — A wall in a flower or kitchen garden, containing conduits or pipes for heating the wall.
Search the NHLE for: HEATED WALL - HEATHER GARDEN — A peat-based garden where various types of heather are grown.
Search the NHLE for: HEATHER GARDEN - HEATING PLANT — Building or buildings housing equipment for generating heat for a building complex.
Search the NHLE for: HEATING PLANT - HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY — An anti aircraft battery usually mounting weapons with a larger calibre ammunition such as the QF 3.75 inch (94mm) gun.
Search the NHLE for: HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY - HEDGE — Usually a row of bushes or small trees planted closely together to form a boundary between pieces of land or at the sides of a road.
Search the NHLE for: HEDGE - HEDGE BANK — A bank, often faced with stone, with a hedge planted on top.
Search the NHLE for: HEDGE BANK - HEDGE MAZE — A complex maze incorporating tall hedges. A popular feature of 16th and 17th century gardens.
Search the NHLE for: HEDGE MAZE - HEEL FACTORY — A factory for the manufacture of heels for the shoe making trade.
Search the NHLE for: HEEL FACTORY - HELICOPTER LANDING PLATFORM — An artificial, sometimes temporary, platform on which helicopters can take off and land.
Search the NHLE for: HELICOPTER LANDING PLATFORM - HELICOPTER TEST RIG — A purpose built apparatus for the testing of helicopters.
Search the NHLE for: HELICOPTER TEST RIG - HELICOPTER TEST SITE — A site on which rigs, towers and other associated structures and buildings used for the testing of helicopters and helicopter parts are located.
Search the NHLE for: HELICOPTER TEST SITE - HELIOCHRONOMETER — A sundial capable of giving an accurate reading of standard time to the minute.
Search the NHLE for: HELIOCHRONOMETER - HELTER SKELTER — A fairground ride, often a permanent structure, consisting of a tower with an internal staircase and an external spiral shaped slide.
Search the NHLE for: HELTER SKELTER - HELVE HAMMER — A cast iron hammer used for shingling iron or making heavy forgings.
Search the NHLE for: HELVE HAMMER - HEMMEL — A small roofed shelter for cattle without tethering point or stalls, but with a small yard attached. It is often detached from the main range of farm buildings.
Search the NHLE for: HEMMEL - HEMP MILL — A factory where hemp, the woody stalk of the hemp plant, used for the making of coarse cloth and cordage, was processed.
Search the NHLE for: HEMP MILL - HEMP STORE — A building used for the storage of rope made from the fibrous stems of the hemp plant.
Search the NHLE for: HEMP STORE - HEN BATTERY — A series of cages in which hens are confined for intensive egg laying.
Search the NHLE for: HEN BATTERY - HENGE — Circular or sub-circular enclosure defined by a bank and (usually internal) ditch, with one or two (rarely more) entrances. Of ceremonial/ritual function, they contain a variety of internal features including timber or stone circles.
Search the NHLE for: HENGE - HENGE ENCLOSURE — A late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age earthwork enclosure distinguished from a henge primarily by its larger size, irregular shape, and greater complexity of internal features.
Search the NHLE for: HENGE ENCLOSURE - HENGIFORM MONUMENT — A small, circular Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age enclosure which bears a morphological resemblance to henges, but may belong to another category of circular earthwork-defined monuments, or is enclosed by something other than a bank and ditch.
Search the NHLE for: HENGIFORM MONUMENT - HERB DISTILLERY — A distillery for the manufacture of perfumes from herbs.
Search the NHLE for: HERB DISTILLERY - HERB GARDEN — A garden for the cultivation of herbs used for medicinal or culinary purposes.
Search the NHLE for: HERB GARDEN - HERBACEOUS BORDER — A long bed planted with perennial flowers and plants.
Search the NHLE for: HERBACEOUS BORDER - HERBAL BREWERY — A plsce were herbal beers are brewed.
Search the NHLE for: HERBAL BREWERY - HERBARIUM — A building or room containing a collection of preserved plants (usually pressed and dried specimens).
Search the NHLE for: HERBARIUM - HERDERS HOUSE — The residence of a herder.
Search the NHLE for: HERDERS HOUSE - HERM — A pedestal terminating in a head or bust of Hermes or some other deity.
Search the NHLE for: HERM - HERMITAGE (GARDEN) — A garden building usually in a secluded spot, resembling a hermit's dwelling and built as a resting place, retreat or viewing point.
Search the NHLE for: HERMITAGE (GARDEN) - HERMITAGE (RELIGIOUS) — A small hut, dwelling or cave, usually in a secluded spot, in which a hermit lived. Hermits chose to live solitary lives often due to religious motives.
Search the NHLE for: HERMITAGE (RELIGIOUS) - HIDE — A shelter, sometimes camouflaged, for the observation of birds and animals at close quarters.
Search the NHLE for: HIDE - HIDING PLACE — A place used to hide something or someone.
Search the NHLE for: HIDING PLACE - HIGH BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where the water enters below the top of the wheel but above the axle.
Search the NHLE for: HIGH BREASTSHOT WHEEL - HIGH CROSS — A churchyard or memorial cross set on a long shaft.
Search the NHLE for: HIGH CROSS - HIGH LIGHT — A lighthouse whose lantern is sufficiently high to be seen at a long range and above low lying cloud or fog. In locations where varying weather conditions occur a High Light is usually accompanied by a LOW LIGHT built alongside or nearby.
Search the NHLE for: HIGH LIGHT - HIGH SECURITY PRISON — An establishment where offenders who have committed the most serious crimes, e.g. serial killers, are confined.
Search the NHLE for: HIGH SECURITY PRISON - HILL FIGURE — A giant figure of a man, animal or symbol carved on chalk hillsides mainly in southern England.
Search the NHLE for: HILL FIGURE - HILLFORT — A hilltop enclosure bounded by one or more substantial banks, ramparts and ditches. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: HILLFORT - HILLSLOPE ENCLOSURE — An enclosure defined by a single bank and entrance. They occur on every type of ground, although they favour sheltered, valley side locations. Smaller and usually less well defended than hillforts they are thought to be settlements of Iron Age date.
Search the NHLE for: HILLSLOPE ENCLOSURE - HILLTOP ENCLOSURE — A substantial area of ground surrounded by slight univallate earthwork often interpreted as stock enclosures or as sites where agricultural produce was stored.
Search the NHLE for: HILLTOP ENCLOSURE - HINAIDI AIRCRAFT SHED — A semi-permanent ahed designed to Air Ministry specification 1136/27 as a quick and cheap hangar for stations overseas
Search the NHLE for: HINAIDI AIRCRAFT SHED - HINDU TEMPLE — A place of worship for followers of Hinduism.
Search the NHLE for: HINDU TEMPLE - HIPPOPOTAMUS HOUSE — A building used to accommodate hippopotami.
Search the NHLE for: HIPPOPOTAMUS HOUSE - HISTOLOGY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department for the identification and treatment of skin tissue disorders.
Search the NHLE for: HISTOLOGY DEPARTMENT - HISTORICAL SITE — Site with important historical association.
Search the NHLE for: HISTORICAL SITE - HOARDING (FENCING) — A temporary fence of boards, often enclosing a building on which posters and bills are attached.
Search the NHLE for: HOARDING (FENCING) - HOARDING (FORTIFICATION) — A temporary, usually roofed, wooden structure placed on the ramparts or walls of a castle to improve the defenders field of fire along the length of a wall.
Search the NHLE for: HOARDING (FORTIFICATION) - HOCKEY PITCH — A playing area for the game of hockey. May be a grass or artificial surface.
Search the NHLE for: HOCKEY PITCH - HOFFMANN KILN — A kiln principally used in brick making which gives a continuous operation.
Search the NHLE for: HOFFMANN KILN - HOGBACK STONE — A North country memorial imitating a wattled hut decorated with formalized bears or snakes.
Search the NHLE for: HOGBACK STONE - HOGGERY — A yard for pigs.
Search the NHLE for: HOGGERY - HOIST — A mechanical lift or elevator, used to lift goods, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HOIST - HOLDFAST — A plinth or pedestal, usually of concrete, to which an anti aircraft or coastal battery gun was fitted. Holdfasts are often the only evidence for a weapon which survive.
Search the NHLE for: HOLDFAST - HOLDING SHED — A building where merchandise and goods are temporarily stored before or after transportation by rail.
Search the NHLE for: HOLDING SHED - HOLED STONE — An upright, or originally upright, stone featuring a hole which is often large enough in diameter for a person to pass through, eg. Men an Tol, Cornwall. Do not use for perforated portable stone artefacts.
Search the NHLE for: HOLED STONE - HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION — A building used as a temporary form of accommodation during a holiday, which includes self-catering.
Search the NHLE for: HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION - HOLIDAY CAMP — Purposely built camp with recreational facilities and individual chalets for accommodation.
Search the NHLE for: HOLIDAY CAMP - HOLIDAY CENTRE — A place with organized amusements for people on holiday.
Search the NHLE for: HOLIDAY CENTRE - HOLLOW — A hollow, concave formation or place, which has sometimes been dug out.
Search the NHLE for: HOLLOW - HOLLOW POST MILL — A post mill in which the drive is taken down to the base of the mill by putting an upright shaft in the hollowed post.
Search the NHLE for: HOLLOW POST MILL - HOLLOW WAY — A way, path or road through a cutting.
Search the NHLE for: HOLLOW WAY - HOLY WELL — A well or spring, possessing religious or otherwise ritualistic significance, around which a structure, such as a niche, wall or shelter, has been constructed. In the case of the water source being a natural spring, double-index with SPRING.
Search the NHLE for: HOLY WELL - HOME GUARD HEADQUARTERS — A building used as the headquarters for the Home Guard during the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: HOME GUARD HEADQUARTERS - HOME GUARD OBSERVATION POST — An observation post used by members of the Home Guard.
Search the NHLE for: HOME GUARD OBSERVATION POST - HOME GUARD SHELTER — A structure, often concrete or brick, used as a shelter by members of the British citizen army during watch or patrol duties, or air raids, in wartime.
Search the NHLE for: HOME GUARD SHELTER - HOME GUARD STORE — Place for the Home Guard to store equipment and amunition, either structural or subterranean during the defence of Britain.
Search the NHLE for: HOME GUARD STORE - HOMELESS HOSTEL — A place where the homeless are accommodated, permanently or temporarily.
Search the NHLE for: HOMELESS HOSTEL - HOMESTEAD — A small settlement, usually consisting of one dwelling with ancillary buildings.
Search the NHLE for: HOMESTEAD - HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL — A hospital where more 'natural' means of treatment are used rather than conventional methods.
Search the NHLE for: HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL - HOOP HOUSE — A building in which hoops (for masts) were heated.
Search the NHLE for: HOOP HOUSE - HOOTER — A steam whistle or siren used for signalling purposes.
Search the NHLE for: HOOTER - HOP BARN — A barn used to store hops.
Search the NHLE for: HOP BARN - HOP EXCHANGE — A commercial building used primarily as a trading place for breweries and hop merchants.
Search the NHLE for: HOP EXCHANGE - HOP GARDEN — A piece of land used for the cultivation of hops.
Search the NHLE for: HOP GARDEN - HOP KILN — A kiln for drying hops in a brewery or maltings complex, as distinct from the OASTHOUSES found on farms.
Search the NHLE for: HOP KILN - HOP STORE — A place where hops are stored.
Search the NHLE for: HOP STORE - HOPPERS HUT — A hut provided as accommodation for hop pickers and may also be know as a Hop Pickers' Hut
Search the NHLE for: HOPPERS HUT - HOPSCOTCH COURT — A specially marked ground used by children for the game of hopscotch.
Search the NHLE for: HOPSCOTCH COURT - HORIZONTAL AIR MILL — A type of tower mill, either with turbine-type sails able to take wind from any direction, or with sails working with shrouds to direct wind from one direction. The sails directly drove millstones set beneath them.
Search the NHLE for: HORIZONTAL AIR MILL - HORIZONTAL KILN — A non-vertical kiln where the shaft and burning zone is horizontal to the ground thereby allowing material to be fed in.
Search the NHLE for: HORIZONTAL KILN - HORIZONTAL STEAM ENGINE — A piston mounted horizontally supplying power via a valve gear directly to a crankshaft or flywheel.
Search the NHLE for: HORIZONTAL STEAM ENGINE - HORIZONTAL WATERMILL — A water mill where the waterwheel directly drives a vertical shaft with grindstones on.
Search the NHLE for: HORIZONTAL WATERMILL - HORN WORKING SITE — A site used for the production of items derived from animal horns.
Search the NHLE for: HORN WORKING SITE - HORNCORE PIT — A pit lined with the bony cores of animal horns. Thought to date from the 17th/18th centuries and believed to have been used in the tanning industry although some may have been used for casting cannon.
Search the NHLE for: HORNCORE PIT - HORNWORK — An outwork joined to the mainwork by two parallel wings.
Search the NHLE for: HORNWORK - HORSE ENGINE — A wheel which is turned by a horse in order to provide power. Used in mines, manufacturing and farming.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE ENGINE - HORSE ENGINE HOUSE — A round or polygonal building containing a HORSE ENGINE. Commonly found on farms next to the threshing barn, where it is used to power the machinery.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE ENGINE HOUSE - HORSE EXERCISE RING — An area of ground in which horses can be exercised.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE EXERCISE RING - HORSE HOSPITAL — A specialist veterinary hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of horses.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE HOSPITAL - HORSE ISOLATION HOSPITAL
Search the NHLE for: HORSE ISOLATION HOSPITAL - HORSE MEASURING SLAB — A flat slab of stone used to provide a level surface from which to measure the height of racehorses at a meeting, as part of the handicapping and anti fraud systems.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE MEASURING SLAB - HORSE PATH — A purpose built section of path linking two sections of a canal enabling a horse to be led over or around an obstacle such as a hill. Horse paths predate towpath tunnels.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE PATH - HORSE RECOVERY STEP — A step or ramp in the bank of a canal to enable horses to climb out of the water.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE RECOVERY STEP - HORSE RUBBING HOUSE — A building where horses are rubbed down after training.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE RUBBING HOUSE - HORSE STOCK — A frame used to lift unco-operative horses off the ground during shoeing.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE STOCK - HORSE TROUGH — A long, wooden, metal or stone vessel holding drinking water for horses.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE TROUGH - HORSE TUNNEL — A tunnel built alongside a canal tunnel to enable a horse to be unhitched and led through the hillside to meet the barge when it emerged from the tunnel. Mainly built prior to the development of the towpath tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE TUNNEL - HORSE WHEEL — A simple machine, worked by horses, to provide a power take-off for driving agricultural machinery.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE WHEEL - HORSE WHIM — A horse-powered winding engine used at mining sites.
Search the NHLE for: HORSE WHIM - HORSEHAIR FACTORY — The cleaning and sorting of horse hair mainly for use in the upholstery trade.
Search the NHLE for: HORSEHAIR FACTORY - HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE — An educational establishment where the art of garden cultivation is taught.
Search the NHLE for: HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE - HORTICULTURAL HALL — A hall used for the promotion and selling of horticultural produce and practice.
Search the NHLE for: HORTICULTURAL HALL - HOSE TOWER — A structure sited within the grounds of a fire station used for drying hoses.
Search the NHLE for: HOSE TOWER - HOSIERS COTTAGE — The residence and small-scale workshop of a hosier.
Search the NHLE for: HOSIERS COTTAGE - HOSIERY FACTORY — A factory or works housing machinery used to produce stockings and socks, using mechanized knitting processes.
Search the NHLE for: HOSIERY FACTORY - HOSIERY WORKSHOP — A place where knitted fabrics and legware garments were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: HOSIERY WORKSHOP - HOSPICE — An establishment providing care for the terminally ill.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPICE - HOSPITAL — An establishment providing medical or surgical treatment for the ill or wounded. Use narrower term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL - HOSPITAL BLOCK — A specialist unit within a hospital complex. It may be a separate building or sometimes linked by a corridor or covered walkway to a main building.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL BLOCK - HOSPITAL BUILDING — A hospital building of uncertain function. Use more specific type if known.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL BUILDING - HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT — A separate functional unit of a hospital not necessarily on the same site.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT - HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS — A specialist hospital for the medical treatment of patients suffering from epilepsy. Originally epilepsy was seen as a mental illness.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS - HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA AND RECTAL DISEASES — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of fistular and rectal disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA AND RECTAL DISEASES - HOSPITAL FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES — A hospital where people with learning difficulties receive medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES - HOSPITAL FOR URINARY DISEASES — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of urinary disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL FOR URINARY DISEASES - HOSPITAL LAUNDRY — A laundry attached to a hospital.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL LAUNDRY - HOSPITAL SCHOOL — A charity school, usually housed in an almshouse.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL SCHOOL - HOSPITAL WARD — A large room, similar to a dormitory, within a hospital, and used for the temporary or permanent accommodation of patients, either waiting for or recovering from operations or undergoing long term treatment.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITAL WARD - HOSPITALLERS CAMERA — A residence used during short visits by an official and attendants of the Knights Hospitallers for administrative purposes on their estates.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITALLERS CAMERA - HOSPITALLERS CHURCH — A place of worship for the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, a military order dedicated to the provision of hospitality for pilgrims, to the care of the sick and to the protection of the Holy Land.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITALLERS CHURCH - HOSPITALLERS PRECEPTORY — An estate or manor of a subordinate community of the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. Includes the mother house, the Priory of St. John, Clerkenwell.
Search the NHLE for: HOSPITALLERS PRECEPTORY - HOSTEL — A building, usually containing several dormitories, used as a cheap, short term residence. Use more specific term if known.
Search the NHLE for: HOSTEL - HOTEL — A large building used for the accommodation of paying travellers and guests.
Search the NHLE for: HOTEL - HOTHOUSE — A glasshouse used for the cultivation of tropical plants.
Search the NHLE for: HOTHOUSE - HOUSE — A building for human habitation, especially a dwelling place. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE - HOUSE OF CORRECTION — An institution for the imprisonment of vagrants and misdemeanants.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE OF CORRECTION - HOUSE OF DETENTION — A building in which people are held in a state of imprisonment or confinement as punishment. Usually associated with military and political offenders.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE OF DETENTION - HOUSE OVER HOUSE — A house in a terrace built on top of another, with access at high and low level to either side.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE OVER HOUSE - HOUSE PLATFORM — An area of ground on which a house is built. A platform is often the sole surviving evidence for a house.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSE PLATFORM - HOUSEBOAT — A boat roofed over and fitted up as a home for living in permanently or temporarily.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSEBOAT - HOUSING ESTATE — A residential district planned as a unit.
Search the NHLE for: HOUSING ESTATE - HOVEL — A rough shelter or dwelling, sometimes used to house cattle.
Search the NHLE for: HOVEL - HOVERCRAFT TERMINAL — An area of a port, dock or harbour, often including buildings for passport control and customs, where passengers and vehicles using hovercraft services can embark/disembark and where supplies can be taken on board.
Search the NHLE for: HOVERCRAFT TERMINAL - HUERS HUT — Hut along the coast, which provided shelter for lookouts known as "huers", who kept watch for the pilchard shoals that passed by the coast. Built of stone or wood. Particular common to Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: HUERS HUT - HUGUENOT BURIAL GROUND — A place of burial for members of the French Protestant Church.
Search the NHLE for: HUGUENOT BURIAL GROUND - HUGUENOT CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the French Protestant church of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Search the NHLE for: HUGUENOT CHURCH - HULL — Underground passage with storage chambers found in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: HULL - HUMAN REMAINS — The unarticulated remains of the body of a human being. If articulated use inhumation.
Search the NHLE for: HUMAN REMAINS - HUNDRED BOUNDARY — The limit line of a medieval local administrative unit of a hundred.
Search the NHLE for: HUNDRED BOUNDARY - HUNGER HOUSE — A farm building in which cattle are housed before slaughter.
Search the NHLE for: HUNGER HOUSE - HUNT STANDING — Structure used for viewing deer hunt.
Search the NHLE for: HUNT STANDING - HUNTING CLUB — A building used as a social venue by people interested in, and involved with, the sport of hunting.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING CLUB - HUNTING FOREST — An area of land, heavily though not totally covered with trees, set aside for the royal hunt by Norman and Plantagenet kings.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING FOREST - HUNTING LODGE — A weekend retreat for Royal parties and others, when hunting in the Royal forests, or as a viewing station for the chase.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING LODGE - HUNTING PARK — An enclosed area of parkland used almost exclusively for the hunting of deer.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING PARK - HUNTING SITE — A building, site or structure associated with the hunting of animals.
Search the NHLE for: HUNTING SITE - HUSH — A ravine formed by using water to reveal or exploit a vein.
Search the NHLE for: HUSH - HUT — A building of basic construction, usually smaller in size than a house and constructed from a variety of materials such as mud, turf, branches, wood, brick, concrete or metal. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: HUT - HUT CIRCLE — A round house indicated by the presence of a low, roughly circular bank of turf, earth or stone, which formed the base of the walls. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period. Where several occur together use HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT.
Search the NHLE for: HUT CIRCLE - HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT — A settlement consisting of several hut circles, either grouped together or dispersed. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period. Use specific forms where supported by the available evidence. For isolated hut circles use HUT CIRCLE.
Search the NHLE for: HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT - HUT PLATFORM — Levelled or terraced area of ground presumed to have been the site of a house or hut.
Search the NHLE for: HUT PLATFORM - HYDRATING PLANT — Series of machines for mechanically slaking lime. 20th century.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRATING PLANT - HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER — A structure used for the production of hydraulic power. A head of water was raised at the top of the tower by means of pumps. Used for powering machinery.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR TOWER - HYDRAULIC BOX CRANE — A hydraulically-powered crane constructed from open box girders.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC BOX CRANE - HYDRAULIC CRANE — A crane whose winding mechanism was operated by hydraulic jiggers.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC CRANE - HYDRAULIC ENGINE — An engine powered by high pressure water, originally used in mine drainage.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC ENGINE - HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE — An engine house used to pump water to the top of an ACCUMULATOR TOWER.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOUSE - HYDRAULIC JIGGER — A hydraulic machine used to magnify the stroke of a hydraulic piston. The pulleys and chains of a crane or other device are attached to the jigger.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC JIGGER - HYDRAULIC LIFT — A lift powered by an hydraulic system.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC LIFT - HYDRAULIC PILLAR CRANE — A hydraulically-powered crane where the jib and windlass are mounted on a central pillar.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC PILLAR CRANE - HYDRAULIC PIPEWORK — Pipes used to carry water or hydraulic fluid for power transmission within a hydraulic system.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC PIPEWORK - HYDRAULIC POWER SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the creation and use of hydraulic power.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC POWER SITE - HYDRAULIC PUMPING STATION — A pumping station used in the production of hydraulic power, eg. in warehouse complexes, goods depots on railways, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC PUMPING STATION - HYDRAULIC RAM — Large piston used to operate lifting bridges, lock gates, etc.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC RAM - HYDRAULIC TIPPLER — A tippler, a machine for loading wagons at a pithead, operated by hydraulic power.
Search the NHLE for: HYDRAULIC TIPPLER - HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION — Power generation by releasing stored water through a turbine driving a generator.
Search the NHLE for: HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION - HYDROPATHIC INSTITUTE — A 19th century spa building, usually consisting of a hotel with baths used for water treatment.
Search the NHLE for: HYDROPATHIC INSTITUTE - HYPOCAUST — A Roman under-floor heating system in which hot air heated by a stoked furnace, flowed through channels, created by either raising the floor on pillars of brick and tile or cutting channels into the concrete floor and tiling over them.
Search the NHLE for: HYPOCAUST
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- ICE CREAM PARLOUR — An establishment used to serve ice cream to the general public.
Search the NHLE for: ICE CREAM PARLOUR - ICE POND — A shallow pond, often located near an ICEHOUSE, built to provide ice during the winter.
Search the NHLE for: ICE POND - ICE WORKS — A factory or plant for the manufacture of ice using mechanized refrigeration techniques.
Search the NHLE for: ICE WORKS - ICEHOUSE — A structure, partly underground, for the preservation of ice for use during warmer weather.
Search the NHLE for: ICEHOUSE - IMMERSION BATH — A structure, often sunk into the ground, for the purpose of allowing total bodily immersion in mineral sprinwater or similarly beneficial substances.
Search the NHLE for: IMMERSION BATH - IMMIGRATION CENTRE — A building or complex used for the temporary detention of people with no legal right to be in the UK who have refused to leave voluntarily.
Search the NHLE for: IMMIGRATION CENTRE - IMPACT CRATER — A depression in the ground caused by the impact of a falling object, such as a crashed aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: IMPACT CRATER - IN SITU BURNT DEPOSIT — A deposit that has been burnt and not subsequently disturbed. Refer to Archaeological Science thesaurus for terminology relating to those redeposited from their original location.
Search the NHLE for: IN SITU BURNT DEPOSIT - INCINERATOR — An apparatus for burning refuse to ashes.
Search the NHLE for: INCINERATOR - INCLINE KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of the supervisor of an inclined plane.
Search the NHLE for: INCLINE KEEPERS COTTAGE - INCLINE WINDING ENGINE — A winch powered by a small steam engine used to drag barges, boats and other vehicles up an inclined plane.
Search the NHLE for: INCLINE WINDING ENGINE - INCLINED PLANE — A prepared slope on which rails are laid to enable early tramroads and railways to negotiate a steep gradient.
Search the NHLE for: INCLINED PLANE - INCORPORATING MILL — A stone edge-runner grinding machine or mill used for mechanically grinding and mixing the ingredients of gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: INCORPORATING MILL - INCURABLES HOSPITAL — A hospital for the care of patients with incurable illnesses.
Search the NHLE for: INCURABLES HOSPITAL - INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Primitive Methodists, a group founded in Manchester who broke away from the Methodists in 1806.
Search the NHLE for: INDEPENDENT METHODIST CHAPEL - INDIAN PAVILION — A structure, often ornamental, in a garden, park or area of recreation, designed to reflect the style of Indian architecture. The most famous example of which is the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.
Search the NHLE for: INDIAN PAVILION - INDOOR SWIMMING POOL — An enclosed feature, usually sub-terranean, constructed to contain water for public or private recreation and sporting activities. Often part of a larger SPORTS CENTRE. Use OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL for unenclosed pools.
Search the NHLE for: INDOOR SWIMMING POOL - INDUSTRIAL — Sites, buildings, structures & features related to the extraction, processing & manufacture of finished goods. Includes structures associated with the supply, storage &/or transmission of power.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL - INDUSTRIAL BUILDING — Any building designed or adapted to accommodate trades and manufacturing activity. Use more specific site where known.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL BUILDING - INDUSTRIAL ESTATE — An area of land owned by a developer, whether a private entrepreneur or a public authority, and divided into plots for leasing or sale to manufacturing or commercial concerns which may share some common services.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL ESTATE - INDUSTRIAL HOUSE — The residence and sometimes workplace of industrial workers.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL HOUSE - INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL — A boarding or day school for children who had committed minor crimes or who lived in circumstances where they were likely to commit crime.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL - INDUSTRIAL SITE — An area or defined space believed to have been used for trades and/or manufacturing activity. Only use when evidence for more specific site type is lacking.
Search the NHLE for: INDUSTRIAL SITE - INEBRIATE REFORMATORY — Reformatory established under the Inebriates Acts 1879-1900 for repeat alcohol related offenders
Search the NHLE for: INEBRIATE REFORMATORY - INFANT SCHOOL — A school where young children, usually under the age of seven, are taught.
Search the NHLE for: INFANT SCHOOL - INFANTRY BARRACKS — A building, or buildings, providing accommodation for an infantry regiment.
Search the NHLE for: INFANTRY BARRACKS - INFANTRY POST — A defensive position, often constructed from sandbags, designed to protect a group of infantry.
Search the NHLE for: INFANTRY POST - INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL — An isolation hospital for infectious diseases and leprosy, sometimes known as a Pest House; commonly situated on the edge of a town.
Search the NHLE for: INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL - INFIRMARY — A building used for the care of the sick. Only to be used where part of a complex, eg. a workhouse. In such cases use with appropriate monument type.
Search the NHLE for: INFIRMARY - INFORMATION CENTRE — A building used for the dissemination to the public of such items like tourist brochures, travel maps, guide books and other documents, etc.
Search the NHLE for: INFORMATION CENTRE - INGHAMITE CHAPEL — A chapel for followers of Benjamin Ingham after he left the Moravians prior to joining the Sandamanians.
Search the NHLE for: INGHAMITE CHAPEL - INHABITED BRIDGE — A bridge on which dwellings or commercial premises have been built.
Search the NHLE for: INHABITED BRIDGE - INHUMATION — An interment of unburnt, articulated human remains. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: INHUMATION - INHUMATION CEMETERY — An area used for the deposition of human remains where the principal funeral rite is the burial of the corpse complete. Generally indicated by the discovery of articulated human skeletal remains, occasionally with evidence of coffins and/or grave goods.
Search the NHLE for: INHUMATION CEMETERY - INK FACTORY — A factory in which is ink is prepared from pigments and additives.
Search the NHLE for: INK FACTORY - INLAND SALTWORKS — A site, building or factory where geologically-derived brine is used for the production of salt.
Search the NHLE for: INLAND SALTWORKS - INLAND SORTING DEPOT — Sorting offices constructed during the Second World War designed to rapidly move goods from the vulnerable docks and ports via the rail network.
Search the NHLE for: INLAND SORTING DEPOT - INN — A public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: INN - INN SIGN — A decorated, hanging sign, bearing the name and also often a pictorial representation of the inn or public house to which it is attached.
Search the NHLE for: INN SIGN - INN THEATRE — An inn temporarily used for the performance of plays and other public entertainment.
Search the NHLE for: INN THEATRE - INNS OF CHANCERY — Buildings in London formerly used as hostels for law students.
Search the NHLE for: INNS OF CHANCERY - INNS OF COURT — A building in London belonging to one of four legal societies having exclusive right of admitting persons to practise at the English bar.
Search the NHLE for: INNS OF COURT - INSCRIBED STONE — An early Medieval commemorative monument in the form of a stone which has been inscribed with symbols.
Search the NHLE for: INSCRIBED STONE - INSECT HOUSE — A building designed to house insects.
Search the NHLE for: INSECT HOUSE - INSTITUTE — A building in which a society or organization is instituted to promote science, art, literature, education, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: INSTITUTE - INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — A building used by an organization instituted to promote the needs and rights of the blind.
Search the NHLE for: INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND - INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF — An establishment where deaf people receive education, training and social support.
Search the NHLE for: INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF - INSTRUMENT ENGINEERING WORKS — A site where scientific and technical instruments such as microscopes are assembled.
Search the NHLE for: INSTRUMENT ENGINEERING WORKS - INSULA — In Roman architecture either 1. A block of buildings enclosed by four streets or 2. A large tenement house or apartment block.
Search the NHLE for: INSULA - INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS BLOCK — A building or group of buildings in which communications signals, usually intercepted fro military purposes, are analysed.
Search the NHLE for: INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS BLOCK - INTERNET CAFE — An establishment originally providing terminals to allow the public to access the internet, usually for a fee. They originally provided snacks and drinks to customers although now this is not always the case.
Search the NHLE for: INTERNET CAFE - INTERNMENT CAMP — An enclosed encampment, often featuring temporary or semi-permanent structures, used for the detention of prisoners of war, refugees or other civilians detained on political or social grounds.
Search the NHLE for: INTERNMENT CAMP - INTERPRETATION CENTRE — A building housing material used to explain the significance of a site or landscape to the public e. g. an archaeological site or nature reserve.
Search the NHLE for: INTERPRETATION CENTRE - INTERRUPTED DITCH SYSTEM — Ditches interrupted by wide, regular causeways. Each section of ditch is about 30-40m long, and each causeway is 10-15m wide. In some cases, a network of fields has been created. Found mainly in the South East of England.
Search the NHLE for: INTERRUPTED DITCH SYSTEM - INTERVAL TOWER — A tower situated above the rampart walkway and in between the angle towers along a defensive structure, such as a castle wall. They were used as lookout towers, roofed strongpoints or platforms from which missiles could be discharged or artillery fired.
Search the NHLE for: INTERVAL TOWER - INVERTED SYPHON — A sewer or irrigation channel designed to avoid blockage.
Search the NHLE for: INVERTED SYPHON - IONIC TEMPLE — An 18th century garden building, designed in the style of a classical Ionic temple, used for standing or sitting in.
Search the NHLE for: IONIC TEMPLE - IRON FOUNDRY — A workshop or foundry where iron articles are made by casting molten material into moulds.
Search the NHLE for: IRON FOUNDRY - IRON FURNACE — A furnace used for smelting or re-heating of iron, either for casting or for further working.
Search the NHLE for: IRON FURNACE - IRON ORE CALCINER — A type of calcining kiln used in the processing of iron ore.
Search the NHLE for: IRON ORE CALCINER - IRON WAREHOUSE — A large building where iron is stored.
Search the NHLE for: IRON WAREHOUSE - IRON WORKING SITE — A site used for the production and/or working of metallic iron.
Search the NHLE for: IRON WORKING SITE - IRON WORKS — A site where iron is smelted or iron goods made.
Search the NHLE for: IRON WORKS - IRONSTONE LEVEL — A working tunnel or gallery in a mine used for the extraction of ironstone.
Search the NHLE for: IRONSTONE LEVEL - IRONSTONE MINE — A mine for the extraction of iron ore.
Search the NHLE for: IRONSTONE MINE - IRONSTONE PIT — A large pit formed by, and for, the extraction of iron ore.
Search the NHLE for: IRONSTONE PIT - IRONSTONE WORKINGS — A site where iron ore is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: IRONSTONE WORKINGS - ISLAMIC SCHOOL — A school in which students are taught according to the beliefs of the muslim faith.
Search the NHLE for: ISLAMIC SCHOOL - ISLAND — A piece of land, sometimes man-made, completely surrounded by water.
Search the NHLE for: ISLAND - ISOLATION BLOCK — An area within a hospital used for the isolation of patients. Patients were isolated if they had an infectious disease or suffered from a psychiatric illness.
Search the NHLE for: ISOLATION BLOCK - ISOLATION WARD — An area within a hospital where patients with contagious diseases are isolated from the rest of the hospital.
Search the NHLE for: ISOLATION WARD - ITALIAN GARDEN — A garden designed in the style of the elaborate gardens of the Renaissance, eg. formal, geometrical layouts of lawn and paths, stone steps, balustrades and statuary and fountains.
Search the NHLE for: ITALIAN GARDEN
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- JACKABLE TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING — A light timber framed building usually with brick panels which rests on a timber frame with jacking points; should ground subsidence occur the structure could be jacked to a level position. Usually found in the Cheshire Salt Field.
Search the NHLE for: JACKABLE TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING - JACQUARD AND DOBBY WORKS — An establishment used for the manufacture of jacquards and dobbys, which are textile loom components that control the weaving of complicated or figured patterns.
Search the NHLE for: JACQUARD AND DOBBY WORKS - JAGGERS HOSTEL — A hostel for packhorse teamsters.
Search the NHLE for: JAGGERS HOSTEL - JAIN TEMPLE — A place of worship for the followers of Jainism
Search the NHLE for: JAIN TEMPLE - JAM FACTORY — A factory, where preserves such as jam and marmalade, are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: JAM FACTORY - JANAZGAH — Muslim funeral mosque.
Search the NHLE for: JANAZGAH - JANE CORRUGATED IRON HUT — A prefabricated temporary structure made of lightweight timber framed panels clad externally with corrugated iron sheets. Used during WWII as officers quarters. Possibly manufactured by Boulton and Paul Limited.
Search the NHLE for: JANE CORRUGATED IRON HUT - JAPANESE GARDEN — A garden incorporating features of traditional Japanese gardens - a pool, an island, stepping stones or a bridge, cherry trees and other shrubs and flowering plants grown with the emphasis on line.
Search the NHLE for: JAPANESE GARDEN - JAPANNING WORKS — A building or site used in the production of japanned goods. Japanning was the process of covering a material with a hard, black lacquer in imitation of Japanese lacquer work.
Search the NHLE for: JAPANNING WORKS - JAZZ CLUB — A building where jazz music is performed. Often situated in small venues to afford the intimacy of the musicians performing in close proximity to the audience.
Search the NHLE for: JAZZ CLUB - JEHOVAHS WITNESSES MEETING HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for Jehovahs Witnesses.
Search the NHLE for: JEHOVAHS WITNESSES MEETING HOUSE - JET WORKING SITE — A site where artefacts are manufactured from jet.
Search the NHLE for: JET WORKING SITE - JET WORKINGS — A site where jet is extracted from the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: JET WORKINGS - JETTIED BUILDING — A building where the upper storeys rest on projecting floor joists and so create the effect of an overhang.
Search the NHLE for: JETTIED BUILDING - JETTIED HOUSE — A house where the upper storeys rest on projecting floor joists and so create the effect of an overhang.
Search the NHLE for: JETTIED HOUSE - JETTY — A mole or pier-like structure situated at the entrance of a harbour, or running out into a lake or the sea, usually used for the landing of craft.
Search the NHLE for: JETTY - JEWEL HOUSE — A building used for the safe storage and public display of jewellery, eg. the Jewel House at the Tower of London.
Search the NHLE for: JEWEL HOUSE - JEWELLERY SHOP — A building or other establishment used for the retail, making and repairing of jewellery.
Search the NHLE for: JEWELLERY SHOP - JEWELLERY WORKSHOP — A workshop used for the manufacture of items of jewellery and/or timepieces from precious metals and precious or semi-precious stones.
Search the NHLE for: JEWELLERY WORKSHOP - JEWISH CEMETERY — A burial ground for followers of the Jewish faith.
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH CEMETERY - JEWISH CLEANING ROOM — A room used for the ritual cleaning of the body prior to burial
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH CLEANING ROOM - JEWISH RITUAL BATH — A large bath used for Jewish ritual ceremonies.
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH RITUAL BATH - JEWISH SCHOOL — A school where Jewish children are educated.
Search the NHLE for: JEWISH SCHOOL - JIB CRANE — A crane with a projecting arm, usually one that can be raised and lowered.
Search the NHLE for: JIB CRANE - JIGGING MILL — A mill used to dress ore by means of a jigging machine.
Search the NHLE for: JIGGING MILL - JOBCENTRE — A government employment agency for those out of work offering advice on jobs, training and retraining.
Search the NHLE for: JOBCENTRE - JOCKEYS QUARTERS — A place where jockeys are accomodated.
Search the NHLE for: JOCKEYS QUARTERS - JOINERS SHOP — A workshop used by a joiner; a craftsman working with wood and producing more ornate work than that of a carpenter.
Search the NHLE for: JOINERS SHOP - JUDGES LODGINGS — Purpose-built lodgings for assize court judges. Early 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: JUDGES LODGINGS - JUNCTION BOX — Casing for electrical connections: an enclosed and protected box inside which electrical circuits are interconnected or branched for distribution.
Search the NHLE for: JUNCTION BOX - JUNCTION LOCK — A lock at the point where two waterways join together.
Search the NHLE for: JUNCTION LOCK - JUNIOR SCHOOL — A school attended by children between the ages of seven and eleven.
Search the NHLE for: JUNIOR SCHOOL - JUTE MILL — A factory where jute (plant fibres), was used to make products such as hessian, sacking, cordage and backing materials for carpet and linoleum.
Search the NHLE for: JUTE MILL - JUVENILE COURT — A court of summary jurisdiction established, following legislation, in 1908 for the trial of offenders below the age of legal reponsibility.
Search the NHLE for: JUVENILE COURT - JUVENILE PRISON — A custodial institution for offenders below the legal age of responsibility.
Search the NHLE for: JUVENILE PRISON - JUVENILE WARD — A section of a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric ward set aside for children and/or adolescents with mental illness.
Search the NHLE for: JUVENILE WARD
K
- K SITE — A decoy site designed to replicate the layout of an RAF satellite airfield, complete with dummy aircraft, simulated runways and simple structures intended to fool enemy aircraft during daylight raids.
Search the NHLE for: K SITE - KEEL BLOCK — One of a line of blocks on the floor of a building slip on which the keel of the ship to be constructed is laid. Also used in dry docks to rest a ship when a dock is pumped dry.
Search the NHLE for: KEEL BLOCK - KEEP — The major tower of a fortification, often acting as its last defence.
Search the NHLE for: KEEP - KEEP AND BAILEY CASTLE — A castle without a motte.
Search the NHLE for: KEEP AND BAILEY CASTLE - KEITH BLACKMAN FAN HOUSE — A building housing an electric powered mine ventilation fan.
Search the NHLE for: KEITH BLACKMAN FAN HOUSE - KELP PIT — A stone-lined pit in which seaweed was burnt. The calcined ashes were used in the manufacture of soap and glass, amongst other things.
Search the NHLE for: KELP PIT - KENNELS — A house or range of buildings in which dogs are kept, eg. hunting hounds.
Search the NHLE for: KENNELS - KERB CAIRN — A cairn featuring a mound of small diameter (normally less than 6m), which is surrounded by a kerb of stones which are considerably taller than the mound.
Search the NHLE for: KERB CAIRN - KERB CIRCLE — A low, hemispherical cairn surrounded by a freestanding, continuous circle of boulders.
Search the NHLE for: KERB CIRCLE - KERBED BOULDER — A Prehistoric monument type in South West England in which a natural boulder is surrounded by a man-made kerb of stones.
Search the NHLE for: KERBED BOULDER - KERBED MOUND — A mound kerbed with wooden stakes or boulders.
Search the NHLE for: KERBED MOUND - KERBSTONE — An edging of stone forming the kerb of a path.
Search the NHLE for: KERBSTONE - KILL SITE — A Palaeolithic or Mesolithic temporary site where there is evidence to suggest animal butchery. Evidence may include animal remains and a specialized tool assemblage.
Search the NHLE for: KILL SITE - KILN — A furnace or oven for burning, baking or drying. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: KILN - KIOSK — A light, open structure for the sale of newspapers, tickets, etc.
Search the NHLE for: KIOSK - KISSING GATE — A small gate swinging in a U or V-shaped enclosure, which allows only one person to pass through at a time.
Search the NHLE for: KISSING GATE - KITCHEN — A building or room where food is prepared and cooked.
Search the NHLE for: KITCHEN - KITCHEN GARDEN — A private garden established primarily for growing vegetables and herbs for domestic consumption.
Search the NHLE for: KITCHEN GARDEN - KNACKERS YARD — A slaughterhouse for horses.
Search the NHLE for: KNACKERS YARD - KNITTING FACTORY — A factory where knitted fabrics are manufacterd using knitting machines.
Search the NHLE for: KNITTING FACTORY - KNOCK STONE — A stone or platform on which lumps of ore are manually broken up.
Search the NHLE for: KNOCK STONE - KNOCKING SLATE — A slate situated at the end of a terrace for a coal company employee to wake the miners for their shift. The slate had the time of the shifts written on it.
Search the NHLE for: KNOCKING SLATE - KNOT GARDEN — An intricately designed garden in which ground coves, low shrubs or coloured earths are arranged in interlacing patterns resembling knots
Search the NHLE for: KNOT GARDEN - KURSAAL — A building used by visitors at a health resort.
Search the NHLE for: KURSAAL
L
- L PLAN (HOUSE ATTACHED) — A farmstead where the farmhouse and working buildings are attached and in-line. They can comprise the extension of linear farmsteads.
Search the NHLE for: L PLAN (HOUSE ATTACHED) - LABORATORY — A group of buildings or rooms equipped with apparatus for scientific experiments or other research, testing and investigations.
Search the NHLE for: LABORATORY - LABOUR EXCHANGE — An employment exchange for unemployed labourers, servicemen, etc.
Search the NHLE for: LABOUR EXCHANGE - LABOURERS SHELTER — A simple, lean-to structure, such as those built by the dock companies to provide shelter for dock workers waiting for work.
Search the NHLE for: LABOURERS SHELTER - LACE DRYING HOUSE — A building where lace was laid out to dry.
Search the NHLE for: LACE DRYING HOUSE - LACE FACTORY — A factory where lace is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: LACE FACTORY - LACE MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of lace.
Search the NHLE for: LACE MANUFACTURING SITE - LACE WAREHOUSE — A building used for the finishing, drying and storage of lace.
Search the NHLE for: LACE WAREHOUSE - LACEMAKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a lacemaker.
Search the NHLE for: LACEMAKERS COTTAGE - LADIES CLUB — A building with a range of educational and recreational facilities for the exclusive use of its all-female membership.
Search the NHLE for: LADIES CLUB - LADIES COLLEGE — An educational establishment, often privately funded, for young women.
Search the NHLE for: LADIES COLLEGE - LADY CHAPEL — A chapel dedicated to our Blessed Lady, often placed to the east of the High Altar, sometimes in other positions.
Search the NHLE for: LADY CHAPEL - LAGER BREWERY — Brewery which produces lager
Search the NHLE for: LAGER BREWERY - LAING HUT — A prefabricated structure of standard lightweight timber wall sections bolted together. Externally the walls were clad with plasterboard covered with felt. Designed in 1940 for use as barrack accommodation.
Search the NHLE for: LAING HUT - LAIRDS HOUSE — Residence of a leading land-holding family within the district.
Search the NHLE for: LAIRDS HOUSE - LAITERIE — A decorative building in the form of a dairy, used for recreation.
Search the NHLE for: LAITERIE - LAITHE — A building combining a cow-house with crop storage space.
Search the NHLE for: LAITHE - LAITHE HOUSE — A laithe with an attached house.
Search the NHLE for: LAITHE HOUSE - LAKE — A large body of water surrounded by land.
Search the NHLE for: LAKE - LAKE VILLAGE — A settlement located on or near to the shores of a lake. Buildings associated with lake villages are usually raised on piles to prevent them from being flooded.
Search the NHLE for: LAKE VILLAGE - LAMBING PEN — An enclosure where ewes are kept at the time of lambing.
Search the NHLE for: LAMBING PEN - LAMELLA AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A steel aircraft hangar evolved from the German "Lamellendach", a segmental roof design of the 1920s using a diamond shaped web of pressed steel producing a hangar with a shallow curving profile. Used for both military and civil purposes.
Search the NHLE for: LAMELLA AIRCRAFT HANGAR - LAMINATE FLOOR FACTORY — A factory making laminate flooring.
Search the NHLE for: LAMINATE FLOOR FACTORY - LAMP BOX — A post box mounted on a lamp post.
Search the NHLE for: LAMP BOX - LAMP BRACKET — An often ornate wrought-iron bracket used to hang lamps outside public houses, shops, hotels and restaurants, etc.
Search the NHLE for: LAMP BRACKET - LAMP POST — A post, usually of iron or concrete, used to support a street lamp.
Search the NHLE for: LAMP POST - LAMPHOUSE — For the storage and recharging of battery-powered miners lamps.
Search the NHLE for: LAMPHOUSE - LAMSON PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM — A communication system in which cylindrical containers are propelled through a network of tubes either by compressed air or partial vacuum. They are used for transporting solid objects, as opposed to conventional pipelines, which transport fluids.
Search the NHLE for: LAMSON PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM - LAND ARMY HOSTEL — A building, often converted from its original use, for use as a temporary accommodation by members of the Women's Land Army during the First and Second World Wars.
Search the NHLE for: LAND ARMY HOSTEL - LAND IMPROVEMENT DRAIN — A large drainage channel used for improving the land.
Search the NHLE for: LAND IMPROVEMENT DRAIN - LAND RECLAMATION — An area of land which has been drained or cleared for habitation and/or cultivation.
Search the NHLE for: LAND RECLAMATION - LAND USE SITE — Areas of land used primarily for agriculture. See also GARDENS, PARKS AND URBAN SPACES.
Search the NHLE for: LAND USE SITE - LANDING CIRCLE — A landing circle marked out in white used as the airfield symbol.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING CIRCLE - LANDING HOUSE — A house to receive boat landings.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING HOUSE - LANDING PIER — A pier where passsengers can embark and disembark and goods can be transferred to and from vessels.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING PIER - LANDING POINT — A place where vessels can land passengers and goods.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING POINT - LANDING STAGE — A platform, sometimes floating, for the landing of passengers and goods from vessels.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING STAGE - LANDING STEPS — Steps found at a landing point.
Search the NHLE for: LANDING STEPS - LANDMARK TOWER — A prominent structure situated on land specifically as a guide to navigation for travellers or as an aid/warning to sailors out at sea.
Search the NHLE for: LANDMARK TOWER - LANDSCAPE PARK — Grounds, usually associated with a country house, laid out so as to produce the effect of natural scenery.
Search the NHLE for: LANDSCAPE PARK - LARDER — A store for keeping undressed meat.
Search the NHLE for: LARDER - LAST WORKS — A site used for the manufacture of lasts, shoemaker's models of the foot for shaping and repairing footwear. Lasts can be from a variety of materials, such as wood or iron.
Search the NHLE for: LAST WORKS - LATRINE PIT — A hole dug in the ground to act as a, usually temporary, communal toilet facility.
Search the NHLE for: LATRINE PIT - LAUNDER — A trough or gutter for conveying liquids such as water or molten metal. It can be cut in the surface or formed of wood or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: LAUNDER - LAUNDRETTE — An establishment with automatic washing machines available for public use.
Search the NHLE for: LAUNDRETTE - LAUNDRY — A room or building where clothing and other fabrics are washed, mangled, steamed and ironed.
Search the NHLE for: LAUNDRY - LAVATORIUM — A wash room. Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LAVATORIUM - LAW COURT — A place, hall or chamber in which justice is administered.
Search the NHLE for: LAW COURT - LAW SCHOOL — An educational establishment where law is taught.
Search the NHLE for: LAW SCHOOL - LAWN — A flat, and usually level area of mown and cultivated grass, attached to a house.
Search the NHLE for: LAWN - LAY BROTHERS RANGE — Accommodation in a monastery for new monks.
Search the NHLE for: LAY BROTHERS RANGE - LAY SISTERS HOUSE — A building in which the lay sisters resided. Lay sisters were not nuns and as such weren't bound by any vows. They could leave the convent and even marry if they wished.
Search the NHLE for: LAY SISTERS HOUSE - LAYER — An archaeological unit of soil in a horizontal plane which may seal features or be cut through by other features.
Search the NHLE for: LAYER - LAZY BEDS — Areas used for potato-growing.
Search the NHLE for: LAZY BEDS - LEAD FURNACE — A furnace used for the smelting or reheating of lead.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD FURNACE - LEAD MINE — Use with form of extraction where known. Also use MINE and other ores extracted where relevant, eg. SILVER MINE.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD MINE - LEAD SMELTER — A building or site where lead is obtained from ore.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD SMELTER - LEAD WORKING SITE — A site used for the production and/or working of metallic lead.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD WORKING SITE - LEAD WORKINGS — A place where lead ore is extracted from an open cast mine.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD WORKINGS - LEAD WORKS — A factory used for the production of red lead used in glass manufacture, or white lead used as the pigment in white paint.
Search the NHLE for: LEAD WORKS - LEARNED SOCIETY BUILDING — A building for a society formed for the promotion of some branch of learning or science.
Search the NHLE for: LEARNED SOCIETY BUILDING - LEARNING DISABILITY HOSPITAL — A hospital where people with learning disabilities receive medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: LEARNING DISABILITY HOSPITAL - LEAT — Artificial water channel, usually leading to a mill.
Search the NHLE for: LEAT - LEATHER DRYING SHED — A covered area used for the drying of animal hides.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER DRYING SHED - LEATHER FACTORY — A factory for the manufacture of leather goods, such as shoes, saddles, etc. Use TANNERY for the manufacture of leather.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER FACTORY - LEATHER INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings or sites used in the preparation, treatment and working of raw animal hide into leather products such as gloves or saddles, etc.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER INDUSTRY SITE - LEATHER MARKET — An indoor or outdoor market where leather and untreated animal hides are sold.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER MARKET - LEATHER WAREHOUSE — A large building used for the storage of leather goods or processed animal skins.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER WAREHOUSE - LEATHER WORKERS SHOP — A workshop used for the small-scale production of leather goods.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER WORKERS SHOP - LEATHER WORKING SITE — A site used for the manufacture of leather products.
Search the NHLE for: LEATHER WORKING SITE - LECTURE THEATRE — A large room with fixed seating, designed for lectures.
Search the NHLE for: LECTURE THEATRE - LEECH HOUSE — A small house in which leeches were bred for medical purposes.
Search the NHLE for: LEECH HOUSE - LEET HALL — A place where a yearly or half-yearly court of record is held by lords of certain manors.
Search the NHLE for: LEET HALL - LEGAL CHAMBERS — A room in which a judge sits to hear cases and undertake other official proceedings which are not of a sufficient importance to be brought into court.
Search the NHLE for: LEGAL CHAMBERS - LEGAL OFFICE — A building housing the services of professionals with an expert knowledge of the law such as the offices of solicitors, barristers and lawyers.
Search the NHLE for: LEGAL OFFICE - LEGAL SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the enactment and enforcement of public law.
Search the NHLE for: LEGAL SITE - LEGIONARY FORTRESS — A large, fortified permanent Roman military base, made of timber and stone, surrounded by a rampart and ditches.
Search the NHLE for: LEGIONARY FORTRESS - LEMUR ENCLOSURE — An enclosure, usually within a zoo, designed to represent the natural environment for Lemurs, including shelter.
Search the NHLE for: LEMUR ENCLOSURE - LENDING LIBRARY — A library which lends books (and sometimes other materials) to its members.
Search the NHLE for: LENDING LIBRARY - LENGTHMANS COTTAGE — The residence of an employee with the duty of maintaining a section of a railway or road.
Search the NHLE for: LENGTHMANS COTTAGE - LEPER HOSPITAL — A medieval hospital for lepers, usually consisting of a church and individual shelters for the lepers.
Search the NHLE for: LEPER HOSPITAL - LETTER BOX — A box in which letters are deposited on delivery.
Search the NHLE for: LETTER BOX - LEVEL CROSSING — A controlled point with warning lights and gates or barriers where a road crosses a railway line.
Search the NHLE for: LEVEL CROSSING - LEVEL CROSSING GATE — A mechanized gate or barrier at a level crossing used to prevent road vehicles crossing a railway line when a train is approaching.
Search the NHLE for: LEVEL CROSSING GATE - LEVEL CROSSING GATE HUT — Hut for use at Level Crossings that were not adjacent to Signal Boxes.
Search the NHLE for: LEVEL CROSSING GATE HUT - LIBRARY — A building, room or suite of rooms where books, or other materials, are classified by subject and stored for use by the library's members.
Search the NHLE for: LIBRARY - LICENSED PREMISES — Establishments authorized to sell or allow the consumption of alcoholic liquors on their premises.
Search the NHLE for: LICENSED PREMISES - LIDO — A public recreational complex centred around an open-air swimming pool. Use SWIMMING POOL as a component of LIDO.
Search the NHLE for: LIDO - LIFEBOAT STATION — A building designed to house a lifeboat, usually with a stone ramp to launch the boat into the sea.
Search the NHLE for: LIFEBOAT STATION - LIFEBOATMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a lifeboatman.
Search the NHLE for: LIFEBOATMANS COTTAGE - LIFT — A structure consisting of a box or platform for carrying goods or passengers from one level to another. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LIFT - LIFT BRIDGE — A bridge that incorporates a span that moves upwards vertically to provide a passageway for navigation.
Search the NHLE for: LIFT BRIDGE - LIFT TESTING TOWER — A tower, consisting of one or several testing shafts, for testing lifts and for training personnel.
Search the NHLE for: LIFT TESTING TOWER - LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE — Structures used for the lifting or hoisting of goods, machinery, vehicles, people and livestock.
Search the NHLE for: LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE - LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT (DIVER) BATTERY — WW2 LAA battery consisting of two or four 40m guns or Bofors guns. Associated structures included tented accommodation, ammunition shelters, a 100 gallon water tank, latrines, wash-house and kitchen.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT (DIVER) BATTERY - LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY — An anti aircraft battery usually mounting smaller, faster weapons such as Bofors guns or a single anti-aircraft machine gun, intended to engage fast low flying aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHT ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY - LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKS — A group of buildings where consumer goods, such as small machines and electrical components, are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHT ENGINEERING WORKS - LIGHT INDUSTRIAL UNIT — A workshop or factory unit where small or light goods are manufacture without the need for large-scale industrial machinery.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHT INDUSTRIAL UNIT - LIGHTHOUSE — A tower or structure, with a powerful light or lights at the top, usually erected at an important or dangerous point on or near the sea-coast for the warning and guidance of mariners, but can also be erected inland for the guidance of travellers.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHTHOUSE - LIGHTKEEPERS HOUSE — The residence of a lightkeeper.
Search the NHLE for: LIGHTKEEPERS HOUSE - LILY POND — A water pond in which lilies are grown.
Search the NHLE for: LILY POND - LIME KILN — A kiln in which lime is made by calcining limestone or in some areas chalk.
Search the NHLE for: LIME KILN - LIME SLAKING PIT — A pit where calcium oxide (Quicklime) has been hydrated to produce calcium hydroxide, known as slaked lime.
Search the NHLE for: LIME SLAKING PIT - LIME WALK — A walk or path lined with lime trees.
Search the NHLE for: LIME WALK - LIME WORKS — A site where lime (calcium carbonate) is made.
Search the NHLE for: LIME WORKS - LIMEHOUSE — A crude, stone-built shelter for persons involved in lime production and the processing of lime burning.
Search the NHLE for: LIMEHOUSE - LIMESTONE QUARRY — A site where limestone is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: LIMESTONE QUARRY - LINEAR CLEARANCE CAIRN — A long, narrow, irregularly constructed and generally unstructured mound of stones. Normally a by-product of field clearance for agricultural purposes, though prehistoric examples may include burials and other deposits.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR CLEARANCE CAIRN - LINEAR EARTHWORK — A substantial bank and ditch forming a major boundary between two adjacent landholdings. Most date from the late Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR EARTHWORK - LINEAR FEATURE — A length of straight, curved or angled earthwork or cropmark of uncertain date or function.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR FEATURE - LINEAR PLAN — A farmstead where the house and working buildings are attached and in-line. Can include Bastles, Longhouses and Laithe houses.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR PLAN - LINEAR SETTLEMENT — A group of related buildings, primarily with a domestic function, which is arranged along a principle axis such as a main road or routeway.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR SETTLEMENT - LINEAR SYSTEM — A complex or network of earthwork or cropmark linear ditches, banks or other features. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LINEAR SYSTEM - LINEN MILL — A mill where flax fibres were woven into linen cloth.
Search the NHLE for: LINEN MILL - LINEN OR FLAX MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites or structures used for the manufacture of linen and/or flax.
Search the NHLE for: LINEN OR FLAX MANUFACTURING SITE - LINHAY — A two storied open fronted structure comprising a cattle or cart shelter on the ground floor with a hayloft above. Most common in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: LINHAY - LINK TRAINER — A building containing a flight siumlator used to provide safe training for pilots.
Search the NHLE for: LINK TRAINER - LINK TRAINER (10040/41) — A building housing a flight simulator designed to air ministry drawing number 10040/41.
Search the NHLE for: LINK TRAINER (10040/41) - LINK TRAINER (1762/39) — A building housing a flight simulator designed to air ministry drawing number 1762/39.
Search the NHLE for: LINK TRAINER (1762/39) - LINK TRAINER (4188/42) — A building housing a flight simulator designed to air ministry drawing number 4188/42.
Search the NHLE for: LINK TRAINER (4188/42) - LINK TRAINER (7790/40) — A building housing a flight simulator designed to air ministry drawing number 7790/40.
Search the NHLE for: LINK TRAINER (7790/40) - LINKMANS HUT — A small shelter used by a man employed to carry links (torches) to light people along a street.
Search the NHLE for: LINKMANS HUT - LINOLEUM FACTORY — A factory where linoleum is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: LINOLEUM FACTORY - LINTEL GRAVE — A grave lined with slabs of stone or slate and covered by a large slab of stone. Commonly found on the Isle of Man.
Search the NHLE for: LINTEL GRAVE - LIQUOR TROUGH — A channel which carried processed alum as liquid from the alum quarry/works to the alum house
Search the NHLE for: LIQUOR TROUGH - LISTENING POST
Search the NHLE for: LISTENING POST - LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE — A subscription club, usually with a library and newspaper room, established from c.1815-1860, their educational function gradually taken over by the public libraries in the later 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE - LITERARY INSTITUTE — A building in which an organization or society is instituted to promote literature through lectures, study and research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: LITERARY INSTITUTE - LITHIC SCATTER — A spatially discrete, though sometimes extensive, scatter of lithic artefacts recovered from the surface, eg. by fieldwalking, rather than from a particular archaeological context. Use particular types where appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: LITHIC SCATTER - LITHIC WORKING SITE — A site which has produced evidence of in situ working of stone for the manufacture of tools, weapons or other objects. Such sites will usually, but not always, be of prehistoric date. Use object material where known.
Search the NHLE for: LITHIC WORKING SITE - LIVERY HALL — A type of guildhall belonging primarily to the London livery companies, but also found elsewhere in the country, so called because of the livery worn by members of the guild.
Search the NHLE for: LIVERY HALL - LIVERY STABLE — A stable where horses are kept at livery, or are let out for hire.
Search the NHLE for: LIVERY STABLE - LIVESTOCK MARKET — A market where cattle, pigs, sheep and poultry are bought and sold.
Search the NHLE for: LIVESTOCK MARKET - LLAMA HOUSE — A house used to accommodate Llamas at a zoo or wildlife park.
Search the NHLE for: LLAMA HOUSE - LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE — A late 17th - early 18th century house with a central chimney and fireplaces and a central door on the front; this door opened closely against the fireplaces, leaving a small lobby for access to the rooms.
Search the NHLE for: LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE - LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPOT — A depot for the depositing, storage and dispatch of plant or other resources associated with the delivery of local government public services.
Search the NHLE for: LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPOT - LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICE — A building which houses the administrative functions of a local authority.
Search the NHLE for: LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICE - LOCAL PRISON — An institution created with the merging of Gaols and Houses of Correction in 1865. Nowadays term used for a prison to which people are sent whilst remanded in custody before trial or direct from court after conviction.
Search the NHLE for: LOCAL PRISON - LOCK — A section of the water channel on a canal or river shut off above and below by lock gates provided with sluices to let the water out and in, and thus raise or lower boats from one level to another. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK - LOCK CHAMBER — The space enclosed between the gates and side-walls of a lock.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK CHAMBER - LOCK FACTORY — A building or site for the industrial manufacture of locks.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK FACTORY - LOCK FLIGHT — A series of locks usually with short reaches between them allowing boats to travel up and down a steep incline.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK FLIGHT - LOCK GATE — A large wooden gate, positioned at either end of a canal or river lock, equipped with sluices to let water through.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK GATE - LOCK HOSPITAL — A hospital for the treatment of venereal disease.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK HOSPITAL - LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a lock-keeper.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK KEEPERS COTTAGE - LOCK SILL — The masonry beneath a lock gate, sometimes projecting several feet from the gate.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK SILL - LOCK UP — A prison used for temporary detention. The typical village lock-up was a one-storeyed, one-celled building, sometimes of round or polygonal plan.
Search the NHLE for: LOCK UP - LOCKSMITHS WORKSHOP — A place where padlocks and rim locks for doors are made from iron and brass.
Search the NHLE for: LOCKSMITHS WORKSHOP - LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT — A place where railway engines are kept.
Search the NHLE for: LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT - LODGE — A small building, often inhabited by a gatekeeper, gamekeeper or similar. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: LODGE - LODGING HOUSE — Purpose built workers' accommodation comprising single rooms with communal eating and washing facilities. Usually for short stay accommodation only.
Search the NHLE for: LODGING HOUSE - LODGINGS — Accommodation in hired rooms or a lodging house.
Search the NHLE for: LODGINGS - LOG CABIN — A small house built out of rough logs.
Search the NHLE for: LOG CABIN - LOGGIA — A covered arcade, often attached to a building, open on one or more sides.
Search the NHLE for: LOGGIA - LOGWOOD MILL — A mill used to process logwood, the inner red wood of a South American tree used widely in dyeing. Imported in the form of logs and cut and ground into dye by a mechanical process.
Search the NHLE for: LOGWOOD MILL - LONG BARROW — A rectangular or trapezoidal earthen mound of Neolithic date, usually accompanied by flanking or encircling ditches, and normally associated with human remains. Mound construction and associated features vary considerably in type and complexity.
Search the NHLE for: LONG BARROW - LONG CAIRN — A rectangular or trapezoidal non-megalithic stony mound of Neolithic date, with human remains in cists rather than a large chamber. Mound construction and associated features vary considerably in type and complexity.
Search the NHLE for: LONG CAIRN - LONG MOUND — A long, narrow mound of earth or stone and of uncertain date and function. Use more appropriate term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: LONG MOUND - LONGHOUSE — A building that housed humans and cattle under one roof, with a shared entrance providing access to the cattle housing (usually downslope) and the dwelling area.
Search the NHLE for: LONGHOUSE - LOOKOUT — A building or site from which a lookout can be kept.
Search the NHLE for: LOOKOUT - LOOMSHOP — The room housing the looms in a domestic handloom weavers cottage. In general, wool loomshops were above the living quarters, whereas cotton loomshops were often below in a cellar, since the floor was usually kept damp to aid the weaving of the cotton.
Search the NHLE for: LOOMSHOP - LOOPHOLED WALL — A wall containing apertures to allow a weapon to be fired through it.
Search the NHLE for: LOOPHOLED WALL - LOOSE BOX — A separate compartment for livestock in which they are free to move about.
Search the NHLE for: LOOSE BOX - LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN — A farmstead where mostly detached buildings have developed around one or more sides of an open cattle yard.
Search the NHLE for: LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN - LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (FOUR SIDED) — A farmstead where mostly detached buildings have developed around four sides of an open cattle yard.
Search the NHLE for: LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (FOUR SIDED) - LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (ONE SIDED) — A farmstead where mostly detached buildings have developed around one side of an open cattle yard.
Search the NHLE for: LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (ONE SIDED) - LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (THREE SIDED) — A farmstead where mostly detached buildings have developed around three sides of an open cattle yard.
Search the NHLE for: LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (THREE SIDED) - LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (TWO SIDED) — A farmstead where mostly detached buildings have developed around two sides of an open cattle yard.
Search the NHLE for: LOOSE COURTYARD PLAN (TWO SIDED) - LORDS CHAPEL — A chapel within a parish church or other religious building for use by the lord of the manor and his family
Search the NHLE for: LORDS CHAPEL - LORINERY — Factory or workshop making bits, spurs and other small metal objects associated with horse harness.
Search the NHLE for: LORINERY - LORRY FACTORY — A factory used for the manufacture and assembly of lorries.
Search the NHLE for: LORRY FACTORY - LOW BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where water enters below the axle but above the bottom of the wheel.
Search the NHLE for: LOW BREASTSHOT WHEEL - LOW HOUSE — A storehouse in 16th and 17th century houses.
Search the NHLE for: LOW HOUSE - LOW LIGHT — A lighthouse whose lantern is sufficiently low to be seen below low lying cloud. In locations where varying weather conditions occur a Low Light is usually accompanied by a HIGH LIGHT built alongside or nearby.
Search the NHLE for: LOW LIGHT - LUFFING CRANE — A crane in which, during any alteration of radius, an automatic device causes the load to move horizontally.
Search the NHLE for: LUFFING CRANE - LUTHERAN CHURCH — A place of worship for followers of the teachings of Martin Luther.
Search the NHLE for: LUTHERAN CHURCH - LYCH GATE — A covered gateway, at the entrance to a churchyard, where during a funeral a coffin could be set down until the vicar arrived.
Search the NHLE for: LYCH GATE - LYE PIT — A pit in which lye is used to clean hides/bones/etc. generally as part of the tanning process to remove excess fat, flesh, hair, etc. from the raw hide. The residue from these pits formed a crude soap which could be used for various cleaning purposes.
Search the NHLE for: LYE PIT - LYNCHET — A bank formed at the end of a field by soil which, loosened by the plough, gradually moves down slope through a combination of gravity and erosion.
Search the NHLE for: LYNCHET - LYON LIGHT EMPLACEMENT — An emplacement mounting a small, portable electrically-powered searchlight.
Search the NHLE for: LYON LIGHT EMPLACEMENT
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- MACELLUM — A Roman market hall principally selling meat and poultry but also other provisions.
Search the NHLE for: MACELLUM - MACHINE BED — A solid concrete or stone base on which a machine (often an engine and therefore called the engine bed, forming part of an engine house) was mounted to power an industrial process. Dates from the 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE BED - MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT — A structure, usually or concrete or sandbags, in which a machine gun was emplaced.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - MACHINE GUN POST — Fixed or hardened installation for machine guns. Temporary soft installations are possible as well.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE GUN POST - MACHINE HOUSE — A building housing machinery.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE HOUSE - MACHINE SHOP — Engineering workshop housing specialized machinery such as lathes, presses, etc., for making machines.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE SHOP - MACHINE TOOL ENGINEERING WORKS — A site where machine tools, machines designed to remove surplus material from a work piece by accurately guided cutting tools, are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINE TOOL ENGINEERING WORKS - MACHINERY — Apparatus used for applying a mechanical force, or to perform a particular function. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MACHINERY - MACULA — Area feature visible as an earthwork or cropmark with no known function.
Search the NHLE for: MACULA - MAGAZINE — A building in which a supply of arms, ammunition and provisions for an army is stored.
Search the NHLE for: MAGAZINE - MAGISTRATES COURT — A law court exercising summary criminal jurisdiction, preliminary hearings and some civil jurisdiction. Formally established by name following legislation of 1949.
Search the NHLE for: MAGISTRATES COURT - MAGNESIUM FACTORY — An industrial facility concerned with the manufacture of magnesium from magnesium hydroxide derived from sea water. Magnesium was used in the manufacture of aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: MAGNESIUM FACTORY - MAGNETOMETER — An instrument for measuring magnetic forces, especially the strength of terrestrial magnetism.
Search the NHLE for: MAGNETOMETER - MAIL BAG NET — A structure to which a net filled with mail bags is attached. Situated next to railway lines, it allows mail to be collected by a train without it stopping, the bag being 'caught' by the train as it passed. Can also be used to 'catch' mail.
Search the NHLE for: MAIL BAG NET - MAIN HANGAR — A transportable hangar designed by A & J Main of Glasgow.
Search the NHLE for: MAIN HANGAR - MAINTENANCE WORKSHOP — A building or room used for the repair and maintenance of machinery in a large complex, such as a hospital, school or factory.
Search the NHLE for: MAINTENANCE WORKSHOP - MAISONETTE — A small house or a portion of a house used as a self-contained apartment.
Search the NHLE for: MAISONETTE - MALT HOUSE — A building with malt kilns for the malting of grains and with other similar equipment for brewing work.
Search the NHLE for: MALT HOUSE - MALT KILN — A kiln with a pyramid roof and capped vent in which barley is dried. Found on the site of a malt house.
Search the NHLE for: MALT KILN - MALTINGS — A type of malt house.
Search the NHLE for: MALTINGS - MAN ENGINE — A machine used to raise and lower miners to and from the pit bottom.
Search the NHLE for: MAN ENGINE - MANAGED WOODLAND — An area of cultivated, managed woodland producing wood which is used for a variety of purposes.
Search the NHLE for: MANAGED WOODLAND - MANAGERS HOUSE — A purpose-built dwelling for the manager of a factory, works, textile mill, etc, often found within the complex itself.
Search the NHLE for: MANAGERS HOUSE - MANGANESE MILL — An mill in which manganese was ground to a powder between two horizontal millstones.
Search the NHLE for: MANGANESE MILL - MANGANESE MINE — A place where manganese ore is extracted. Use with other ores extracted and MINE where relevant.
Search the NHLE for: MANGANESE MINE - MANHOLE — A vertical shaft, usually with an internal ladder, allowing access to a sewer or underground counduit for inspection and maintenance.
Search the NHLE for: MANHOLE - MANHOLE COVER — An iron cover for a manhole
Search the NHLE for: MANHOLE COVER - MANOR — An area of land consisting of the lord's demesne and of lands from whose holders he may exact certain fees, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MANOR - MANOR FARM — A farm on the estate of a manor.
Search the NHLE for: MANOR FARM - MANOR HOUSE — The principal house of a manor or village.
Search the NHLE for: MANOR HOUSE - MANORIAL BOUNDARY — The limit line of an area pertaining to a medieval manor.
Search the NHLE for: MANORIAL BOUNDARY - MANORIAL CHAPEL — A chapel situated within the demesnes of a manor. Can be a separate building or an integral part of a manor house.
Search the NHLE for: MANORIAL CHAPEL - MANORIAL FARM — A medieval high status farmstead, acting as the centre of the estate, directly controlled by the lord and used for the benefit of his household and dependents.
Search the NHLE for: MANORIAL FARM - MANSE — A non-conformist minister's house.
Search the NHLE for: MANSE - MANSIO — A type of Roman lodging house, frequently sited near the town gate.
Search the NHLE for: MANSIO - MANSION FLATS — A type of late 19th century tenement block for tenants of a higher social status - usually reflected in the more ornate facades.
Search the NHLE for: MANSION FLATS - MANSION HOUSE — Traditionally the chief residence of a land owner. Now used specifically to describe the residence of the Lord Mayor of London.
Search the NHLE for: MANSION HOUSE - MANURE SHED — A building used in the preparation of manure.
Search the NHLE for: MANURE SHED - MARBLE QUARRY — A place where marble is extracted from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: MARBLE QUARRY - MARINA — A dock or basin, often inland, used for mooring yachts and other small pleasure craft.
Search the NHLE for: MARINA - MARINE CONSTRUCTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the construction and repair of ships and boats.
Search the NHLE for: MARINE CONSTRUCTION SITE - MARINE ENGINEERING WORKS — Specialized engineering workshop particularly for the production of marine engines or other large components of ships.
Search the NHLE for: MARINE ENGINEERING WORKS - MARINE LABORATORY — A scientific laboratory where marine life is studied and researched.
Search the NHLE for: MARINE LABORATORY - MARINE LAKE — Seaside structure, usually consisting of a manmade retaining wall that keeps a relatively large area of the tidal water partitioned off for controlled boating or swimming.
Search the NHLE for: MARINE LAKE - MARINE WORKSHOP — A craft or repair workshop in a boat yard, harbour or naval dockyard.
Search the NHLE for: MARINE WORKSHOP - MARINERS COTTAGE — The residence of a sailor.
Search the NHLE for: MARINERS COTTAGE - MARITIME — Sites, building, structures & features associated with the construction, maintenance & supply of maritime craft. Includes associated ancillary structures such as navigation aids, dockyards, wharves, etc; does not include vessels.
Search the NHLE for: MARITIME - MARITIME HOUSE — The residences of people associated with the sea.
Search the NHLE for: MARITIME HOUSE - MARITIME OFFICE — A building from where marine operations are directed.
Search the NHLE for: MARITIME OFFICE - MARKER CAIRN — A cairn erected to mark a particular spot in the landscape. Can be used for various reasons.
Search the NHLE for: MARKER CAIRN - MARKER POST — A post, made of wood, metal or other material, erected to mark a particular spot in the landscape. Can be used for various reasons such as measurement, calibration etc.
Search the NHLE for: MARKER POST - MARKER STONE — A stone erected to mark a particular spot in the landscape. Can be used for various reasons.
Search the NHLE for: MARKER STONE - MARKET — An open space or covered building in which cattle, goods, etc, are displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET - MARKET CROSS — A cross found in a market place.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET CROSS - MARKET GARDEN — A piece of land used to grow vegetables to be sold at markets.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET GARDEN - MARKET HALL — A purpose built covered market hall, usually 19th century, although earlier examples do exist, eg. that at Abingdon, Oxfordshire c.1680.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET HALL - MARKET HOUSE — A market building, pre-19th century, incorporating other function rooms, eg. theatres, courtrooms, schoolrooms.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET HOUSE - MARKET PLACE — An area, often consisting of widened streets or a town square, where booths and stalls may be erected for public sales.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET PLACE - MARKET STALL — A structure, often movable, used as a platform for the display of a traders goods in a market.
Search the NHLE for: MARKET STALL - MARL PIT — A pit from which marl, a mixture of clay and carbonate of lime, is excavated. Marl is used as a fertilizer.
Search the NHLE for: MARL PIT - MARQUEE — A large tent which can be used as accommodation for parties and exhibitions.
Search the NHLE for: MARQUEE - MARRIAGE FEAST HOUSE — A building, often close to a churchyard, used for the entertainment of poor people on their wedding day.
Search the NHLE for: MARRIAGE FEAST HOUSE - MARRIED QUARTERS — Purpose built accommodation for members of the armed forces and their families.
Search the NHLE for: MARRIED QUARTERS - MARSH — A low lying area of land that is usually waterlogged at all times and is flooded in wet weather.
Search the NHLE for: MARSH - MARSHALLING YARD — A series of parallel railway sidings on which goods wagons originating from different locations can be sorted or re-sorted into new trains before being despatched to their next destination or sorting points.
Search the NHLE for: MARSHALLING YARD - MARSHMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a marsh keeper.
Search the NHLE for: MARSHMANS COTTAGE - MARTELLO TOWER — A coastal gun/watch tower built as part of the anti-invasion defences during the Napoleonic Wars.
Search the NHLE for: MARTELLO TOWER - MASH HOUSE — A brewery building where malt is mixed with hot water to form wort.
Search the NHLE for: MASH HOUSE - MASONS MARK — A device, monogram or symbol incised in stonework by a mason as a means of identifying his work. Particularly common in Romanesque and Gothic buildings.
Search the NHLE for: MASONS MARK - MASS GRAVE — A pit used to bury a large number of people who have died, or been killed, either as a result of warfare, epidemics or natural disasters.
Search the NHLE for: MASS GRAVE - MAST HOUSE — A building where masts are made and stored.
Search the NHLE for: MAST HOUSE - MAST POND — A pond with underwater arches where the poles for masts were stored to prevent them from drying and splitting.
Search the NHLE for: MAST POND - MASTER ROPEMAKERS HOUSE — The residence of a master ropemaker.
Search the NHLE for: MASTER ROPEMAKERS HOUSE - MASTER SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE — The residence of a master shipwright.
Search the NHLE for: MASTER SHIPWRIGHTS HOUSE - MASTING SHEERS — A pair of SHEER LEGS mounted on shore or on a SHEER HULK, used as a crane to hoist a mast and lower it into place on a ship.
Search the NHLE for: MASTING SHEERS - MATCH FACTORY — A building where matches are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: MATCH FACTORY - MATCH LODGE — A building at the entrance to an factory manufacturing explosives where a person was searched for matches, prior to entering the workplace.
Search the NHLE for: MATCH LODGE - MATERNITY BLOCK — A hospital block where pregnant women are accommodated and receive medical treatment before and after child birth.
Search the NHLE for: MATERNITY BLOCK - MATERNITY CLINIC — A self-contained establishment (out-patients) where pregnant women receive check-ups, counselling and medical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: MATERNITY CLINIC - MATERNITY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the reception of women during their confinement.
Search the NHLE for: MATERNITY HOSPITAL - MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society instituted to promote the study of mathematics through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE - MATTRESS FACTORY — A factory where matresses are made.
Search the NHLE for: MATTRESS FACTORY - MATZEVAH — A Jewish graveyard headstone.
Search the NHLE for: MATZEVAH - MAUSOLEUM — A monumental burial place, usually for a single person or family.
Search the NHLE for: MAUSOLEUM - MAYCRETE HUT — A prefabricated structure of reinforced concrete posts supporting a pitched roof frame with an infilling of sawdust concrete panels. Produced by Maycrete Ltd during WWII.
Search the NHLE for: MAYCRETE HUT - MAYORS RESIDENCE — The official residence of the chief officer of the municipal corporation of a city or borough in England.
Search the NHLE for: MAYORS RESIDENCE - MAYPOLE — A high pole, painted with spiral stripes of different colours and decked with flowers, erected on an open space, often the village green, for merrymakers to dance around on May Day.
Search the NHLE for: MAYPOLE - MAZE — A confusing and baffling network of winding and intercommunicating paths, often bordered by high hedges or walls. Some early examples are believed to have had ritual uses. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MAZE - MEADOW — A piece of grassland, often near a river, permanently covered with grass which is mown for use as hay.
Search the NHLE for: MEADOW - MEAT CELLAR — A building or subterranean structure used for the storage of meat.
Search the NHLE for: MEAT CELLAR - MEAT MARKET — A place where meat is displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: MEAT MARKET - MECHANICS INSTITUTE — A building where artisans could learn more about their craft, and the scientific and theoretical principles behind it, by attending lectures and the use of the reading room facilities.
Search the NHLE for: MECHANICS INSTITUTE - MEDICAL BLOCK — A building, usually part of a complex, where medical treatment and hospital facilities are provided.
Search the NHLE for: MEDICAL BLOCK - MEDICAL CENTRE — A building where advice, counselling and medical treatment is available.
Search the NHLE for: MEDICAL CENTRE - MEDICAL COLLEGE — An establishment where the theory and practice of medicine is taught.
Search the NHLE for: MEDICAL COLLEGE - MEDITATION CENTRE — A building where people congregate to undertake sustained mental contemplation or religious or spiritual reflection.
Search the NHLE for: MEDITATION CENTRE - MEERSTONE — A marker stone showing the extent of a measure of land containing a vein of ore.
Search the NHLE for: MEERSTONE - MEETING HALL — A place where people meet for entertainment, discussion or assembly. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MEETING HALL - MEMORIAL HALL — A hall built as a memorial to a particular person or event.
Search the NHLE for: MEMORIAL HALL - MERCHANTS HOUSE — Originally, a house of higher social status in a town or port, often with a storage cellar.
Search the NHLE for: MERCHANTS HOUSE - MESS — A military dining room where members of the armed forces eat and take recreation.
Search the NHLE for: MESS - MESSUAGE — A dwelling-house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use.
Search the NHLE for: MESSUAGE - METAL BOX FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the manufacture of metal boxes or cases.
Search the NHLE for: METAL BOX FACTORY - METAL EXTRACTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the extraction of metal ores.
Search the NHLE for: METAL EXTRACTION SITE - METAL FRAMED BUILDING — A modern building in which the load is carried by a metal girder framework and infilled with a light curtain wall.
Search the NHLE for: METAL FRAMED BUILDING - METAL INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the metal industry.
Search the NHLE for: METAL INDUSTRY SITE - METAL PROCESSING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the processing of non ferrous metal ores.
Search the NHLE for: METAL PROCESSING SITE - METAL PRODUCT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of products from metals.
Search the NHLE for: METAL PRODUCT SITE - METAL PRODUCTION FURNACE — A furnace where metal is manufactured from ore.
Search the NHLE for: METAL PRODUCTION FURNACE - METAL SMELTING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the smelting of metals.
Search the NHLE for: METAL SMELTING SITE - METAL WORKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop used by a craftsman who works in base or precious metals.
Search the NHLE for: METAL WORKERS WORKSHOP - METAL WORKING SITE — A site where metal is worked. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: METAL WORKING SITE - METAL WORKS — A complex of buildings used for the processing of metals. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: METAL WORKS - METHANE PLANT — A site where methane gas, released by coal mining, is collected and processed.
Search the NHLE for: METHANE PLANT - METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Methodists, a movement founded by John Wesley. Following his death in 1791 there were many secessions.
Search the NHLE for: METHODIST CHAPEL - METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Methodist New Connexion, a movement founded in 1791 when Alexander Kilham led the first group to split from the Methodists.
Search the NHLE for: METHODIST NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL - METHODIST REFORM CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Methodist Reform Church. This group was the result of a secession from the Methodists in 1849. They remained until joining with the Wesleyan Association in 1857.
Search the NHLE for: METHODIST REFORM CHAPEL - MEWS — Traditionally a mew was a building housing hawks when they were moulting, however since the C16th the term has been used for a series of stables grouped around an open yard or alley, often with rooms above. Use only for stables otherwise use FALCONRY.
Search the NHLE for: MEWS - MICRARIUM — A building where artefacts, scientific specimens, antiquities and similar objects of interest could be examined through microscopes by members of the public.
Search the NHLE for: MICRARIUM - MICROBREWERY — A small brewery, often situated in a public house, producing limited quantities of beer, for consumption locally and/or on the premises.
Search the NHLE for: MICROBREWERY - MID BREASTSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where the water enters at the same level as the axle.
Search the NHLE for: MID BREASTSHOT WHEEL - MIDDEN — A refuse heap.
Search the NHLE for: MIDDEN - MIGRATED VILLAGE — The site of a deserted settlement in cases where there is evidence that it has deliberately been relocated in a single planned action, eg. to remove a settlement from an enclosed park, or to create a model community, as opposed to gradual abandonment.
Search the NHLE for: MIGRATED VILLAGE - MILE PLATE — A plate, usually of wood or metal, set up on a road, canal or railway to mark the miles from or to a place.
Search the NHLE for: MILE PLATE - MILECASTLE — A small, walled fortlet, situated every Roman mile along the length of Hadrian's Wall to defend a gateway allowing the passage of people and as a garrison to accommodate patrol troops.
Search the NHLE for: MILECASTLE - MILEFORTLET — A free standing small turf and timber fortlet, situated every Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall.
Search the NHLE for: MILEFORTLET - MILEPOST — A post or pillar set up alongside a road to mark the miles from or to a place.
Search the NHLE for: MILEPOST - MILESTONE — A stone set up on a road or path to mark the miles from or to a place.
Search the NHLE for: MILESTONE - MILITARY AIRFIELD — A landing and taking-off area for military aircraft. Often includes ancilliary structures and buildings for the maintenance and storage of aircraft, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY AIRFIELD - MILITARY AIRFIELD SITE — Buildings, structures and sites directly associated with the operation of military airfields. See also AIR TRANSPORT SITE in the TRANSPORT Class.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY AIRFIELD SITE - MILITARY BASE — A building or group of buildings, often surrounded by a system of fortifications, used as a residential and training site by members of an armed force.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY BASE - MILITARY BUILDING — A building of unknown purpose found at a military site. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY BUILDING - MILITARY CAMP — A site where a body of troops is temporarily or permanently lodged, with or without entrenchments and fortifications.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CAMP - MILITARY CANAL — A canal built as a military obstacle, but also used for the transport of military stores, equipment and personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CANAL - MILITARY CEMETERY — A burial ground for military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CEMETERY - MILITARY CHAPEL — A place of worship for military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY CHAPEL - MILITARY COASTAL DEFENCES — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the defence of the coastline from foreign invasion.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY COASTAL DEFENCES - MILITARY COLLEGE — A training college for the instruction of military trainees in the theory and practice of warfare.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY COLLEGE - MILITARY DEPOT — A building or group of buildings, often enclosed by a system of fortifications, used by an armed force for the storage and distribution of military equipment.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY DEPOT - MILITARY HEADQUARTERS — A building used as the command centre of a military operation.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY HEADQUARTERS - MILITARY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of military personnel and/or their families.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY HOSPITAL - MILITARY INSTALLATION — A site and associated buildings used by the military for various purposes. Use only where exact function is unknown otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY INSTALLATION - MILITARY OBSERVATION SITE — Buildings, structures and sites for the detection of encroaching enemy forces.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY OBSERVATION SITE - MILITARY OFFICE — An administrative building used to organize and co-ordinate the activities of members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY OFFICE - MILITARY POLICE SECTION HOUSE — A building occupied by the corps responsible for police and disciplinary duties in the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY POLICE SECTION HOUSE - MILITARY PRISON — An institution for the imprisonment of military personnel convicted under military law by a military court.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY PRISON - MILITARY RESIDENCE — A residence for military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY RESIDENCE - MILITARY ROAD — A road used primarily, but not exclusively, for the rapid transport of military vehicles, equipment and personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY ROAD - MILITARY SIGNALLING SITE — Buildings and structures used for sending and receiving signals.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY SIGNALLING SITE - MILITARY SUPPORT BUILDING — An ancilliary building or structure associated with a military base. Use only where exact function is unknown otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY SUPPORT BUILDING - MILITARY TRAINING SITE — Buildings, structures and sites for the training of military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY TRAINING SITE - MILITARY TRANSPORT SITE — Sites and structures for the transport of military personnel, vehicles and armaments.
Search the NHLE for: MILITARY TRANSPORT SITE - MILK DEPOT — A building where milk is deposited and stored before it is despatched to the consumer.
Search the NHLE for: MILK DEPOT - MILKING PARLOUR — A place used for the milking of cows.
Search the NHLE for: MILKING PARLOUR - MILKING SHED — A building in which cows are milked.
Search the NHLE for: MILKING SHED - MILL — A factory used for processing raw materials. Use more specific mill type where known. See also TEXTILE MILL, for more narrow terms.
Search the NHLE for: MILL - MILL DAM — A dam constructed across a stream to raise its water-level and make it available to power a mill wheel.
Search the NHLE for: MILL DAM - MILL HOUSE — The residence of a miller, often attached to a mill.
Search the NHLE for: MILL HOUSE - MILL LODGE — A northern term for water reservoirs at steam powered industrial sites that are part of the steam raising plant and are used for recirculating condenser cooling water. The lodge had to be large enough to supply the condenser with cool water for a day.
Search the NHLE for: MILL LODGE - MILL POND — The area of water retained above a mill dam for driving a mill.
Search the NHLE for: MILL POND - MILL RACE — The channel of water that provides a current of water to drive a millwheel.
Search the NHLE for: MILL RACE - MILLSTONE — One of a pair of large circular stones used for grinding corn in a mill.
Search the NHLE for: MILLSTONE - MILLSTONE WORKING SITE — A site where millstones have been cut to shape and/or fabricated from smaller pieces of stone.
Search the NHLE for: MILLSTONE WORKING SITE - MINE — An excavation made in the earth for the purpose of digging out metallic ores, coal, salt, or precious stones etc. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MINE - MINE BUILDING — A building found at the site of a mine. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MINE BUILDING - MINE DRAINAGE AND VENTILATION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the drainage and/or ventilation of mines.
Search the NHLE for: MINE DRAINAGE AND VENTILATION SITE - MINE LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE — Buildings and structures associated with lifting and winding at the site of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: MINE LIFTING AND WINDING STRUCTURE - MINE PUMPING SHAFT — A shaft, separate to the main working shaft, used to pump water out of the mine workings.
Search the NHLE for: MINE PUMPING SHAFT - MINE PUMPING WORKS — A pumping station for draining a mine or colliery.
Search the NHLE for: MINE PUMPING WORKS - MINE SHAFT — A vertical or inclined excavation giving access to an underground mine.
Search the NHLE for: MINE SHAFT - MINED BRIDGE — A bridge which has had mines placed within its structure to enable it to be destroyed in the event of an invasion.
Search the NHLE for: MINED BRIDGE - MINED ROAD — A road which has had mines placed within its structure to enable it to be destroyed in the event of an invasion.
Search the NHLE for: MINED ROAD - MINEFIELD — An area of ground or water containing explosive mines.
Search the NHLE for: MINEFIELD - MINERAL BATHS — Baths containing water impregnated with mineral substances in which patients bathe for medicinal purposes.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL BATHS - MINERAL DEPOT — A depot for the storage of various minerals.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL DEPOT - MINERAL EXTRACTION SITE — Sites where minerals are extracted from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL EXTRACTION SITE - MINERAL JELLY STORE — A building where mineral jelly was stored. Mineral jelly was used as a stabilizer in the manufacture of the explosive, cordite.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL JELLY STORE - MINERAL PIT — A pit in the ground from where minerals are dug.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL PIT - MINERAL PRODUCT SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the production of materials made from minerals.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL PRODUCT SITE - MINERAL RAILWAY — A railway used for the conveyance of coal and other minerals.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL RAILWAY - MINERAL WATER FACTORY — A factory which produces artificial imitations of mineral water, such as soda water.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL WATER FACTORY - MINERAL WATER HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where water treatment is given to patients suffering from muscular-skeletal complaints, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MINERAL WATER HOSPITAL - MINERS CHANGING HOUSE — A building for miners to change their clothes.
Search the NHLE for: MINERS CHANGING HOUSE - MINERS READING ROOM — An area of a building providing reading materials for the benefit of colliery workers.
Search the NHLE for: MINERS READING ROOM - MINES RESCUE STATION — A rescue station serving a number of mines in the immediate area.
Search the NHLE for: MINES RESCUE STATION - MINEWATCHERS POST — A building with small observation ports used for plotting mines dropped by parachute.
Search the NHLE for: MINEWATCHERS POST - MINIATURE GARDEN — A small-scale garden.
Search the NHLE for: MINIATURE GARDEN - MINIATURE GOLF COURSE — A prepared area of ground, featuring a 'mini' golf course with obstacles, used to undertake the leisure pursuit of miniature golf or 'crazy golf'. Often popular at seaside resorts.
Search the NHLE for: MINIATURE GOLF COURSE - MINIATURE RAILWAY — A small-scale railway, often for the transportation of children at a place of recreation.
Search the NHLE for: MINIATURE RAILWAY - MINING EXCHANGE — A type of stock exchange for tin which replaced the stannary courts in the mid 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: MINING EXCHANGE - MINING INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the mining industry.
Search the NHLE for: MINING INDUSTRY SITE - MINISTRY OF SUPPLY LIVING HUT — A prefabricated structure of cant sided lightweight timber wall sections bolted together. Externally the walls were clad with plasterboard covered with felt. Designed for use as barrack accommodation during WWII.
Search the NHLE for: MINISTRY OF SUPPLY LIVING HUT - MINISTRY OF SUPPLY TIMBER HUT — A prefabricated structure of a light timber frame with external weather boarded walls and a timber felt covered roof. They were used as barrack blocks during WWII. Manufactured by Magnet Limited.
Search the NHLE for: MINISTRY OF SUPPLY TIMBER HUT - MINISTRY OF WORKS HALL HUT — A prefabricated structure of lightweight timber wall sections bolted together. Externally the walls were clad with plasterboard covered with felt. Designed for use as officers accomodation during WWII.
Search the NHLE for: MINISTRY OF WORKS HALL HUT - MINISTRY OF WORKS STANDARD HUT — A concrete hut produced by the Ministry of Works as a cheaper alternative to the BCF Hut as any suitable wall cladding could be employed in its construction. Usually used to form barrack blocks on airfields from 1944 onwards.
Search the NHLE for: MINISTRY OF WORKS STANDARD HUT - MINK FARM — A building or group of buildings used for the raising of mink, a semi-aquatic mammal which is farmed for its fur.
Search the NHLE for: MINK FARM - MINKA — Standard dwelling of the non-ruling classes of Japan until the mid twentieth century. Minkas are timber-framed houses with mud-plastered panels and thatched roofs. The design varies from region to region. Minkas served as home as well as workplace.
Search the NHLE for: MINKA - MINSTER — A complex of buildings, often within an enclosure, housing a pre-Benedictine Reform secular religious community. Now commonly used to describe the main church within such a complex, which over time attained higher status.
Search the NHLE for: MINSTER - MINT — A place where money is coined under public authority.
Search the NHLE for: MINT - MISSILE BASE — A site for the storage, preparation and launching of missiles.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE BASE - MISSILE FACTORY — A factory for the production of missiles
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE FACTORY - MISSILE SILO — An underground vertical cylindrical structure for the storage and launching of ballistic missiles.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE SILO - MISSILE TEST SITE — An area for the testing of guided missiles.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE TEST SITE - MISSILE UNDERGROUND LAUNCHER — A prototype semi-underground silo based launch system specifically designed to hold and fire the Blue Streak Missile. The silo was constructed at RAF Spadeadam in c1959 and abandoned in April 1960.
Search the NHLE for: MISSILE UNDERGROUND LAUNCHER - MISSION — A building or compound housing a permanent establishment of members of a religious organization to do missionary work.
Search the NHLE for: MISSION - MISSION CHURCH — A church established by a religious community to propogate its faith.
Search the NHLE for: MISSION CHURCH - MISSION HALL — A building used for meetings and worship by a religious community trying to propogate its faith in an area.
Search the NHLE for: MISSION HALL - MITHRAEUM — A Roman sanctuary, devoted to the Graeco-Roman cult of Mithras.
Search the NHLE for: MITHRAEUM - MIXED BORDER — A bed or border in which different species and colours are mixed.
Search the NHLE for: MIXED BORDER - MIXED CEMETERY — A cemetery containing more than one burial type eg cremations and inhumations.
Search the NHLE for: MIXED CEMETERY - MIXING HOUSE — A building in which the ingredients of an explosive charge are weighed into their correct proportions and mixed prior to incorporation.
Search the NHLE for: MIXING HOUSE - MIXING HOUSE BARN — A barn with steam powered threshing.
Search the NHLE for: MIXING HOUSE BARN - MOAT — A wide ditch surrounding a building, usually filled with water. Use for moated sites, not defensive moats. Use with relevant site type where known, eg. MANOR HOUSE, GARDEN, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MOAT - MOBILE SOUND LOCATOR — A mobile piece of equipment used by the Royal Observer Corps to track the movements of enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: MOBILE SOUND LOCATOR - MOBILIZATION CENTRE — An installation used to store ammunition and equipment ready for the mobilization of armed forces in the event of a war.
Search the NHLE for: MOBILIZATION CENTRE - MODEL — Use for miniaturized monument type. Index with actual monument type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL - MODEL DWELLING — Flats or houses first built by 19th century philanthropic societies as a model to encourage the development of approved working class housing.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL DWELLING - MODEL FACTORY — A factory built as a pattern for improved design.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL FACTORY - MODEL FARM — A farm building erected in the 18th and 19th century which were architect-designed rather than built in the local vernacular style.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL FARM - MODEL SETTLEMENT — A planned village or settlement, usually developed by a philanthropic industrialist , to house workers. Most include facilities for the education and betterment of the workers and their families.
Search the NHLE for: MODEL SETTLEMENT - MOLE — A massive structure, usually of stone, serving as a pier or breakwater, or joining two places separated by water.
Search the NHLE for: MOLE - MONASTERY — Houses specifically of monks, canons or religious men but not friars.
Search the NHLE for: MONASTERY - MONASTIC DWELLING — A residence for a member of a religious community eg. Abbot, Prior, Manciple etc. For multiple occupancy use more specific term eg. DORMITORY.
Search the NHLE for: MONASTIC DWELLING - MONASTIC PRECINCT — The area surrounding a monastic house including conventual buildings, outbuildings, cemetery, fishponds, etc, usually marked out by a bank and/or ditch or precinct wall.
Search the NHLE for: MONASTIC PRECINCT - MONUMENT — Sites, buildings, structures & features categorized by their form rather than their function, where this has been deemed to be useful for retrieval purposes. Careful consideration will be given to the inclusion of new terms within this class.
Search the NHLE for: MONUMENT - MONUMENTAL CHAMBER — Building used for the display of inscription panels and memorials to those buried in the underlying catacomb.
Search the NHLE for: MONUMENTAL CHAMBER - MONUMENTAL MOUND — A mound in excess of 150 metres in diameter, of Late Neolithic date and presumed ritual function, eg. Silbury Hill.
Search the NHLE for: MONUMENTAL MOUND - MOORING BLOCK — Block, often made of concrete, to secure smaller maritime craft. Many were made during the Second Wold War to secure craft which were to be used in the D-Day landings.
Search the NHLE for: MOORING BLOCK - MOORING BOLLARD — A post to which ropes are attached to secure vessels at a landing place.
Search the NHLE for: MOORING BOLLARD - MOORISH GARDEN — A garden incorporating features of Moorish-influenced Spanish gardens - water features, patios, benches, walls and compartments, evergreens, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MOORISH GARDEN - MOORISH PAVILION — An often light and airy garden building in the Moorish style used for recreational purposes.
Search the NHLE for: MOORISH PAVILION - MOOT — An outdoor meeting place.
Search the NHLE for: MOOT - MOOT HALL — A meeting hall, sometimes equivalent to a GUILDHALL, but also associated with some early mining industries.
Search the NHLE for: MOOT HALL - MORAVIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Protestant followers of Hussite doctrines which accept the Bible as the only source of faith.
Search the NHLE for: MORAVIAN CHAPEL - MORAVIAN SETTLEMENT — A community of Protestant followers of Hussite doctrines, first founded by Moravian emigrants in Saxony, Germany.
Search the NHLE for: MORAVIAN SETTLEMENT - MORDANT WORKS — A chemical works producing mordants for the dying industry.
Search the NHLE for: MORDANT WORKS - MORMON TEMPLE — A place of worship for the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Search the NHLE for: MORMON TEMPLE - MORRISON SHELTER — A portable indoor air raid shelter in the form of a steel topped table, often with wire meshing around the sides.
Search the NHLE for: MORRISON SHELTER - MORT SAFE — An iron frame placed over a coffin or at the entrance to a grave to act as a deterrent against resurrectionists.
Search the NHLE for: MORT SAFE - MORTAR CRATER — A depression in the ground caused by the explosion of a mortar shell.
Search the NHLE for: MORTAR CRATER - MORTAR MILL — A mill used for the production of mortar; a combination of sand, lime and water, used to make the joints between courses of bricks in buildings. In more recent times cement has replaced lime to create a quicker drying mortar.
Search the NHLE for: MORTAR MILL - MORTUARY — A building or room used for holding, viewing, identifying or examining dead bodies prior to burial or cremation.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY - MORTUARY CHAPEL — A place of worship at the site of a mortuary.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY CHAPEL - MORTUARY ENCLOSURE — A subrectangular earthen enclosure defined by a ditch, usually with an internal bank, assumed to have been used for the primary exposure or burial of human remains in the Neolithic period prior to secondary burial elsewhere.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY ENCLOSURE - MORTUARY HOUSE — Timber or stone built structure, traces of which are found within some long and round barrows, in which human remains were interred prior to mound construction.
Search the NHLE for: MORTUARY HOUSE - MOSAIC — A picture or pattern produced by cementing together small pieces of stone or glass of various colours. May be in the form of a floor.
Search the NHLE for: MOSAIC - MOSQUE — A Muslim temple or place of worship.
Search the NHLE for: MOSQUE - MOSS HOUSE — A rustic garden building made of wood with moss pressed between the wall slats. The mosses could be of different types, forming a mossery.
Search the NHLE for: MOSS HOUSE - MOTEL — A long, low-rise building consisting of rows of attached individual suites of rooms used for overnight accommodation by motorists.
Search the NHLE for: MOTEL - MOTOR CYCLE FACTORY — A building where motor cycles are assembled.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR CYCLE FACTORY - MOTOR HOUSE — A building for housing, maintaining and repairing motor cars. Dating to the 1890s.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR HOUSE - MOTOR TRANSPORT BUILDING — A building, on an airfield or military base, used for the maintenance and storage of motor vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR TRANSPORT BUILDING - MOTOR TRANSPORT PARK — A site, usually including hardstandings and associated buildings, used for the storage of military vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR TRANSPORT PARK - MOTOR TRANSPORT SHED — A building, on a military airfield or base, in which motor vehicles are housed.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR TRANSPORT SHED - MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the manufacture of motor vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE - MOTOR VEHICLE SHOWROOM — A building or room where motor vehicles are exhibited for sale.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR VEHICLE SHOWROOM - MOTOR VEHICLE TESTING TRACK — A ground used for the performance testing of motor vehicles, for example prototype vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: MOTOR VEHICLE TESTING TRACK - MOTORING TELEPHONE BOX — A roadside telephone box for use by motorists in need of assistance.
Search the NHLE for: MOTORING TELEPHONE BOX - MOTORWAY — Fast arterial road with separate carriageways limited to motor vehicles
Search the NHLE for: MOTORWAY - MOTTE — An artificial steep-sided earthen mound on, or in, which is set the principal tower of a castle.
Search the NHLE for: MOTTE - MOTTE AND BAILEY — An early form of castle consisting of a flat-top steep-sided earthen mound, supporting a wooden tower, and a bailey.
Search the NHLE for: MOTTE AND BAILEY - MOULD LOFT — Used for the laying out and marking of the smaller parts of a ship prior to construction.
Search the NHLE for: MOULD LOFT - MOULD STORE — A building or room used for the storage of pottery moulds.
Search the NHLE for: MOULD STORE - MOULDING HOUSE — A building or structure in which bricks are made.
Search the NHLE for: MOULDING HOUSE - MOULDMAKERS SHOP — A workshop used for the production of pottery moulds.
Search the NHLE for: MOULDMAKERS SHOP - MOUND — A natural or artificial elevation of earth or stones, such as the earth heaped upon a grave. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MOUND - MOUNTING BLOCK — A block for mounting a horse.
Search the NHLE for: MOUNTING BLOCK - MOVABLE BRIDGE — A type of bridge which has machinery and movable elements, eg. to allow vessels to pass.
Search the NHLE for: MOVABLE BRIDGE - MOVING CRANE — A crane which is driven by a petrol or diesel engine and travels on either crawler tracks or rubber tyres.
Search the NHLE for: MOVING CRANE - MOVING QUAY CRANE — A crane mounted on wheels and/or rails, used for the unloading of ships' cargoes.
Search the NHLE for: MOVING QUAY CRANE - MUFFLE KILN — A kiln in which the contents are protected from the fire, usually by a lining of tiles or refractory bricks.
Search the NHLE for: MUFFLE KILN - MUG HOUSE — An 18th century cottage with a pottery kiln attached.
Search the NHLE for: MUG HOUSE - MULTI LEVEL BRIDGE — A bridge with two or more decks allowing it to carry various modes of transport at the same time.
Search the NHLE for: MULTI LEVEL BRIDGE - MULTI STOREY CAR PARK — A car park, on two or more levels.
Search the NHLE for: MULTI STOREY CAR PARK - MULTI STOREY MILL — A mill, on two or more levels.
Search the NHLE for: MULTI STOREY MILL - MULTI STOREY STABLE — A stable, on two or more levels.
Search the NHLE for: MULTI STOREY STABLE - MULTIPLE DITCH SYSTEM — A multiple, parallel arrangement of linear earthwork ditches, usually accompanied by banks, and often of considerable territorial extent. Usually of later prehistoric or Roman date.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIPLE DITCH SYSTEM - MULTIPLE DWELLING — Buildings designed for the accommodation of large numbers of people, rather than single families, etc.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIPLE DWELLING - MULTIPLE ENCLOSURE FORT — Hillslope forts with wide spaced ramparts.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIPLE ENCLOSURE FORT - MULTIVALLATE HILLFORT — A hillfort enclosure with defences composed of more than one bank and ditch.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIVALLATE HILLFORT - MULTIVALLATE RAMPART — A defensive embankment with three or more ditches.
Search the NHLE for: MULTIVALLATE RAMPART - MUNGO MILL — A mill for the manufacture of low grade cloth made from ground-up heavy woollen rags.
Search the NHLE for: MUNGO MILL - MUNICIPIUM — A town for citizens of Roman or Latin status with a constitution governed by charter, which if possessing only Latin rights could be promoted to the status of a colonia.
Search the NHLE for: MUNICIPIUM - MUNIMENT HOUSE — A building where documents such as title-deeds, charters, etc, were kept as evidence of rights or privileges.
Search the NHLE for: MUNIMENT HOUSE - MUNITION HOUSE — A building for the storage of ammunition and other military stores.
Search the NHLE for: MUNITION HOUSE - MUNITIONS FACTORY — A building or site used for the manufacture of weapons, ammunition and military supplies. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: MUNITIONS FACTORY - MURAL — A picture or pattern produced by either by cementing together small pieces of stone or glass of various colours or by painting directly onto a wall.
Search the NHLE for: MURAL - MUSEUM — A building, group of buildings or space within a building, where objects of value such as works of art, antiquities, scientific specimens, or other artefacts are housed and displayed.
Search the NHLE for: MUSEUM - MUSEUM SHIP — Permanently moored historic maritime craft preserved and converted into a museum and open to the public.
Search the NHLE for: MUSEUM SHIP - MUSIC HALL — A hall licensed for musical performances, singing, dancing and other entertainments, exclusive of dramatic performance.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC HALL - MUSIC ROOM — A building or room, purpose built for the teaching, rehearsing and playing of music.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC ROOM - MUSIC SCHOOL — A building or school where music is taught.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC SCHOOL - MUSIC SPEECH AND DANCE VENUE — Buildings and structures associated with the performance of musical, oratory and dance events.
Search the NHLE for: MUSIC SPEECH AND DANCE VENUE - MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FACTORY — A factory where musical instruments are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: MUSICAL INSTRUMENT FACTORY - MUSLIM CEMETERY — A burial ground for followers of the Islamic faith.
Search the NHLE for: MUSLIM CEMETERY - MUSTARD MILL — A mill where mustard is produced.
Search the NHLE for: MUSTARD MILL
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- NAAFI BUILDING — A building, administered by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, providing retail and leisure services to members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: NAAFI BUILDING - NAIL FACTORY — A factory where nails are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: NAIL FACTORY - NAIL SHOP — A small work shop for nail manufacture, most commonly situated at the back of a nailer's dwelling.
Search the NHLE for: NAIL SHOP - NAILERS ROW — A terrace or row of dwellings, with a NAIL SHOP attached to each house.
Search the NHLE for: NAILERS ROW - NAMED TREE — A tree named after a person or event associated with it, e.g. Byron's Oak at Newstead.
Search the NHLE for: NAMED TREE - NAPHTHA WORKS — A building or site used for the production of naphtha, a volatile petroleum-derived product used in the manufacture of solvents, cleaning fluids etc.
Search the NHLE for: NAPHTHA WORKS - NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW — Long parallel soil ridges less than 5 metres across separated by furrows, formed by using a heavy plough capable of turning the soil.
Search the NHLE for: NARROW RIDGE AND FURROW - NASHCRETE HUT — A prefabricated structure of reinforced concrete posts supporting a pitched roof frame with an infilling of concrete panels. Produced by during WWII as barrack accommodation and as emergency housing. Similar in style to Maycrete huts.
Search the NHLE for: NASHCRETE HUT - NATIONAL PARK — Areas of land that have been designated as national property where habitation and commercial activities are restricted to preserve their outstanding landscapes.
Search the NHLE for: NATIONAL PARK - NATIONAL SCHOOL — A school established by the National Society which was founded in 1811 to promote the education of the poor.
Search the NHLE for: NATIONAL SCHOOL - NATURAL FEATURE — Use only for natural features mistakenly assumed to be archaeological or natural features with archaeological significance.
Search the NHLE for: NATURAL FEATURE - NATURAL GAS STRUCTURE — Buildings and structures associated with the processing and storage of natural gas.
Search the NHLE for: NATURAL GAS STRUCTURE - NATURE RESERVE — Area of land set aside and managed for the preservation of flora, fauna, their natural habitats and physical features.
Search the NHLE for: NATURE RESERVE - NAVAL BATTLEFIELD — Area or zone of sea where a battle, skirmish or action was fought between naval ships or warships and privateers. Not to be used for enemy action upon mercantile ships or a sudden strike by mine/torpedo against an enemy warship.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL BATTLEFIELD - NAVAL COLLEGE — A shore establishment for the teaching of maritime theory and practical skills.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL COLLEGE - NAVAL DOCKYARD — A naval base that builds, repairs, docks or converts warships, and is manned by civilian engineers and workers and administered by engineer duty officers.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL DOCKYARD - NAVAL GUNNERY RANGE — Range used by the Navy with reinforced observation huts which housed quadrant equipment to record accuracy and damage.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL GUNNERY RANGE - NAVAL HEADQUARTERS — A building used for the daily administration of the Royal Navy.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL HEADQUARTERS - NAVAL OFFICE — A building used for a variety of administrative purposes, usually at a naval dockyard.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL OFFICE - NAVAL OFFICERS HOUSE — The residence of a Royal Navy or Merchant Navy officer.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL OFFICERS HOUSE - NAVAL OFFICERS MESS — A building providing accommodation, dining and recreational facilities for commissioned naval officers.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL OFFICERS MESS - NAVAL STOREHOUSE — A building for the storage of all stores supplied for naval service other than victualling and armament.
Search the NHLE for: NAVAL STOREHOUSE - NAVIGATION AID — Buildings, sites and structures used by mariners for purposes of navigation.
Search the NHLE for: NAVIGATION AID - NEEDLE MILL — A mill or works where needles were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: NEEDLE MILL - NEPHROLOGY HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of kidney disorders and diseases.
Search the NHLE for: NEPHROLOGY HOSPITAL - NET HOUSE — A free-standing building with enough space to hang and dry nets.
Search the NHLE for: NET HOUSE - NET LOFT — A component of another building, often a house, used for storing nets.
Search the NHLE for: NET LOFT - NET MAKING SITE — A building or room where nets are made
Search the NHLE for: NET MAKING SITE - NETBALL COURT — A prepared area used for the game of netball.
Search the NHLE for: NETBALL COURT - NEUROLOGY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the treatment of diseases of the nerves and nervous system.
Search the NHLE for: NEUROLOGY HOSPITAL - NEW CONNEXION OF GENERAL BAPTISTS CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the New Connexion of General Baptists,an orthodox Baptist church which broke away from the General Baptists in 1770 when the latter became influenced by Unitarianism.
Search the NHLE for: NEW CONNEXION OF GENERAL BAPTISTS CHAPEL - NEW TOWN — A settlement carefully planned from its inception and usually constructed in an area which was previously undeveloped. Many new towns were developed following the New Towns Act 1946.
Search the NHLE for: NEW TOWN - NEWSPAPER OFFICE — A building or set of rooms where a newspaper is compiled and produced, before being printed. May include facilities for printing.
Search the NHLE for: NEWSPAPER OFFICE - NICKEL MINE — Also use with other metal ores extracted and MINE where relevant.
Search the NHLE for: NICKEL MINE - NIGHT FIGHTER STATION WATCH OFFICE — A two storey building with a watch office on the ground floor and a control room above. Originally based on drawing number 12096/4.
Search the NHLE for: NIGHT FIGHTER STATION WATCH OFFICE - NIGHTCLUB — An establishment open at night for refreshment and entertainment.
Search the NHLE for: NIGHTCLUB - NISSEN HUT — A prefabricated structure of a steel frame clad in corrugated iron. Semi-circular in section they were used as accommodation for the armed forces and, during WWII, as emergency housing for bombed out civilians. Also used for storage.
Search the NHLE for: NISSEN HUT - NITRATE WORKS — A building or site producing nitrogen-rich fertilizer.
Search the NHLE for: NITRATE WORKS - NITRE BED — A large bed surrounded by an earthwork and filled with composing vegetable matter and animal waste. This was used to produce Nitre, a constituent of gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: NITRE BED - NITROCELLULOSE POWDER FACTORY — A factory or works principally engaged in the production of a single base propellant, using nitrocellulose without the addition of nitroglycerine.
Search the NHLE for: NITROCELLULOSE POWDER FACTORY - NITROGLYCERINE WORKS — A works or factory where nitroglycerine is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: NITROGLYCERINE WORKS - NODAL POINT — A designated area, usually sited at a strategic crossroads, with fixed defences such as pillboxes, anti tank ditches and gun emplacements, designed to act as a rallying point for defenders.
Search the NHLE for: NODAL POINT - NON ANTIQUITY — Use to identify a feature, previously thought to be a monument but now disproved, or to avoid erroneous identification as a monument in future. Where a feature is regarded as an antiquity, but is unclassified, use SITE.
Search the NHLE for: NON ANTIQUITY - NONCONFORMIST CEMETERY — A burial ground for Nonconformists. Use more specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST CEMETERY - NONCONFORMIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of Protestant sects dissenting from the established Church.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST CHAPEL - NONCONFORMIST CHURCH — A place of worship for members of Protestant sects dissenting from the established Church.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST CHURCH - NONCONFORMIST MEETING HOUSE — A building used for services by a nonconformist protestant sect, especially by Quakers and Presbyterians.
Search the NHLE for: NONCONFORMIST MEETING HOUSE - NORTH LIGHT FACTORY — A type of factory building, often single-storey, designed so that windows incorporated into the vertical faces of its saw-tooth roof can allow the maximum amount of natural light into its interior.
Search the NHLE for: NORTH LIGHT FACTORY - NORTH LIGHT SHED — A single storey building designed so that windows incorporated into the saw tooth roof catch the available light.
Search the NHLE for: NORTH LIGHT SHED - NOTICE BOARD — A large board, often attached to the side of a building, on which advertisements can be displayed. Use for external structures only.
Search the NHLE for: NOTICE BOARD - NOVICES ROOM — A room in a monastery used by monks or nuns as a day room.
Search the NHLE for: NOVICES ROOM - NUCLEAR BUNKER — A reinforced concrete structure, often sited underground, used as a shelter from the threat of nuclear attack.
Search the NHLE for: NUCLEAR BUNKER - NUCLEAR COMMAND CENTRE — An underground structure from which operations covering the whole, or part, of the country could be directed in the event of a nuclear attack. Usually equipped with air filtration equipment and supplies for several months.
Search the NHLE for: NUCLEAR COMMAND CENTRE - NUCLEAR POWER STATION — A complex of buildings producing power derived from nuclear energy.
Search the NHLE for: NUCLEAR POWER STATION - NUCLEAR TEST SITE — Site associated with the testing of nuclear material or its containers.
Search the NHLE for: NUCLEAR TEST SITE - NUNNERY — Houses specifically of nuns/canonesses or religious women.
Search the NHLE for: NUNNERY - NURSERY — A room or a building set aside for infants and young children.
Search the NHLE for: NURSERY - NURSERY GARDEN — A horticultural site where trees, shrubs and plants are grown for sale and transplanting elsewhere.
Search the NHLE for: NURSERY GARDEN - NURSERY SCHOOL — A school for pre-Infant school children, usually 3-5 years old.
Search the NHLE for: NURSERY SCHOOL - NURSES HOSTEL — A building where nurses live.
Search the NHLE for: NURSES HOSTEL - NURSES TRAINING SCHOOL — An establishment for the theoretical and practical training of nurses.
Search the NHLE for: NURSES TRAINING SCHOOL - NURSING HOME — A residential home for older people or people with physical and/or mental disabilities who need care provided by registered nurses.
Search the NHLE for: NURSING HOME - NYMPHAEUM — A grotto or shrine dedicated to the nymphs, composed of fountains designed to imitate a natural grotto.
Search the NHLE for: NYMPHAEUM
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- OASTHOUSE — A building for the storage and drying of hops, often including a hop drying kiln. Usually built as part of a farm.
Search the NHLE for: OASTHOUSE - OBELISK — A tall, tapering pillar with a pyramidal top, generally square on plan. Used in England from the late 16th century as a public, funerary or garden monument.
Search the NHLE for: OBELISK - OBSERVATION POST — A building or site for watching specific military activities or the movement of enemy forces, etc.
Search the NHLE for: OBSERVATION POST - OBSERVATION TOWER — An observation tower is a structure used to provide panoramic views of the surrounding area. They are often used as attractions at seaside resorts e.g. Blackpool Tower.
Search the NHLE for: OBSERVATION TOWER - OBSERVATORY — A building containing celestial telescopes in which astronomical or meteorological phenomena may be observed.
Search the NHLE for: OBSERVATORY - OCCUPATION LAYER — A layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
Search the NHLE for: OCCUPATION LAYER - OCCUPATION SITE — A site showing some signs of occupation but evidence is insufficient to imply permanent settlement.
Search the NHLE for: OCCUPATION SITE - OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY UNIT — A centre where treatment and rehabilitation training is given to patients recovering from injuries or accidents.
Search the NHLE for: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY UNIT - OCEAN LINER TERMINAL — An area of a port, dock or harbour, often including buildings for passport control and customs, where passengers of ocean liners can embark/disembark and where supplies can be taken on board.
Search the NHLE for: OCEAN LINER TERMINAL - OCHRE MILL — A mill for grinding ochre for the paint making process.
Search the NHLE for: OCHRE MILL - OCHRE MINE — A site where iron oxide and iron sulphate is extracted.
Search the NHLE for: OCHRE MINE - OCHRE PIT — A site where iron oxide and iron sulphates, used as brown pigments, are excavated.
Search the NHLE for: OCHRE PIT - OCTAGONAL KILN — A kiln that is octagonal in plan. Use with functional kiln type where known.
Search the NHLE for: OCTAGONAL KILN - OCTAGONAL TEMPLE — A garden building, octagonal in plan, designed in the style of a classical temple, used for standing or sitting in.
Search the NHLE for: OCTAGONAL TEMPLE - ODDFELLOWS HALL — A building used by the society, fraternity or order organized under this name with initiatory rites, mystic signs of recognition and various degrees of dignity or honour, for social or benevolent purposes.
Search the NHLE for: ODDFELLOWS HALL - OFFICE — A building or room where business, administrative or professional activities are conducted. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICE - OFFICERS MESS — A building providing dining facilities and recreation for commissioned officers.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICERS MESS - OFFICERS QUARTERS — A building where military officers are accommodated.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICERS QUARTERS - OFFICIAL RESIDENCE — Used where an existing building is designated as the residence of an official.
Search the NHLE for: OFFICIAL RESIDENCE - OGHAM STONE — Upright stones engraved on the edges with a Celtic script consisting of lines or notches.
Search the NHLE for: OGHAM STONE - OHEL — Prayer hall at burial ground, especially a small walk-in memorial devoted to a deceased Hasidic rabbi.
Search the NHLE for: OHEL - OIL DISTILLERY — A site used for the separation of oil into its constituent parts by heating in an enclosed vessel(s).
Search the NHLE for: OIL DISTILLERY - OIL ENGINE — An internal combustion engine powered by the combustion of vapourized oil.
Search the NHLE for: OIL ENGINE - OIL FIRED POWER STATION — An electricity-producing power station fired by oil.
Search the NHLE for: OIL FIRED POWER STATION - OIL FUEL BERTH — A purpose built quay for supplying ships with fuel.
Search the NHLE for: OIL FUEL BERTH - OIL MILL — A factory where fruit and seed oil is produced by an oil machine.
Search the NHLE for: OIL MILL - OIL PUMP — A piece of machinery used to raise oil from a well.
Search the NHLE for: OIL PUMP - OIL REFINERY — A works where crude oil is distilled into its fractions or cuts.
Search the NHLE for: OIL REFINERY - OIL RETORT HOUSE — A structure erected for the processing of shale, to extract oil through heating.
Search the NHLE for: OIL RETORT HOUSE - OIL RIG — A supporting structure for drilling machinery used in the extraction of or prospecting for mineral oils.
Search the NHLE for: OIL RIG - OIL SILO — An underground structure for the storage of mineral oil.
Search the NHLE for: OIL SILO - OIL WELL — A site where petroleum is drawn.
Search the NHLE for: OIL WELL - OIL WORKS — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the retrieval, refining, processing and storage of petroleum oil.
Search the NHLE for: OIL WORKS - OILCLOTH MILL — A mill in which oilcloth (a heavy cotton or linen cloth with a linseed oil coating) was produced.
Search the NHLE for: OILCLOTH MILL - OLYMPIC VLLAGE — Residential area built to house athletes and their coaches at the Olympic Games. The buildings are generally reused as public housing after the contest.
Search the NHLE for: OLYMPIC VLLAGE - ONION DRYING SHED — A building where onions are laid out to dry.
Search the NHLE for: ONION DRYING SHED - OPEN AIR SCHOOL — An early to mid 20th century school designed to effect maximum ventilation and sunlight for its pupils.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN AIR SCHOOL - OPEN AIR THEATRE — An outdoor theatre for the staging of dramatic productions.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN AIR THEATRE - OPEN AIR WARD BLOCK — A hospital ward block, completely open on the south side apart from a low railing and sun blind. It was thought beneficial for the recovery of wounded soldiers as well as those with diseases of the chest.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN AIR WARD BLOCK - OPEN BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE — A place of meeting and worship for Open Brethren, a non exclusive fundamentalist puritan sect which was created when the Brethren split in 1847.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN BRETHREN MEETING HOUSE - OPEN CAST MINE — An excavation open to the sky, caused by the extraction of coal, stone or similar. Use with product type where known.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN CAST MINE - OPEN FIELD — An area of arable land with common rights after harvest or while fallow. Usually without internal divisions (hedges, walls or fences).
Search the NHLE for: OPEN FIELD - OPEN HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a single storey hall with two storey domestic ranges attached to either one or both ends.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN HALL HOUSE - OPEN HEARTH FURNACE — A form of blast furnace. Steel is smelted in an open hearth while the waste gases are used to preheat the air blast.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN HEARTH FURNACE - OPEN ROPEWALK — A long, narrow, rectangular plot of land used for the manufacture of rope. Usually walled, it may include small buildings and awnings at each end. Often attached to a warehouse.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN ROPEWALK - OPEN SITE — A Palaeolithic or Mesolithic occupation site, excluding occupations of caves and rock shelters. Evidence for occupation may include traces of hearths and other structures.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN SITE - OPEN TRAINING PRISON — An institution for the imprisonment of prisoners who can be trusted to serve their sentence without likelihood of escape and of being a threat to the public. There is no physical barrier designed to prevent absconding.
Search the NHLE for: OPEN TRAINING PRISON - OPENCUT — A linear open working along a lode vein, worked directy from the surface. Survives as a gully or ravine, normally with closed ends.
Search the NHLE for: OPENCUT - OPERA HOUSE — An often ornately decorated theatre for the performance of opera.
Search the NHLE for: OPERA HOUSE - OPERATING THEATRE — A room where surgical operations are performed. Originally in the form of a room with a raised table surrounded by tiered seating from where students could watch an operation or disection be performed.
Search the NHLE for: OPERATING THEATRE - OPERATIONAL READINESS PLATFORM — An area on post-war military airfields for parking aircraft on quick reaction alert to allow immediate access to the runway. Abbreviation ORP.
Search the NHLE for: OPERATIONAL READINESS PLATFORM - OPERATIONS BLOCK — A building of varying designs intended for directing military aviation operations. Normally associated with military airfields.
Search the NHLE for: OPERATIONS BLOCK - OPERATIONS ROOM — A room used for directing military operations and exercises.
Search the NHLE for: OPERATIONS ROOM - OPPIDUM — An imprecise term used to describe large Iron Age settlements of town-like proportions.
Search the NHLE for: OPPIDUM - OPTICIANS — An establishment for the testing of eyesight, making up of optical prescriptions and the sale of spectacles.
Search the NHLE for: OPTICIANS - ORANGERY — A gallery or building in a garden, usually south facing, used for the growing of oranges and other fruit.
Search the NHLE for: ORANGERY - ORCHARD — An enclosure used for the cultivation of fruit trees.
Search the NHLE for: ORCHARD - ORCHARD HOUSE — A forcing house used for various types of fruit which first appeared in the 19th century. Lean-to houses were used for wall-grown fruit and free-standing houses for fruit grown in pots or for trees planted in the ground.
Search the NHLE for: ORCHARD HOUSE - ORDNANCE DEPOT — A building or site used by the armed forces for the storage and issuing of military stores and materials.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE DEPOT - ORDNANCE DISPOSAL SITE — Site for the disposal of unexploded ordnance, possibly attached to a bombing range.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE DISPOSAL SITE - ORDNANCE FACTORY — A building or site used for the manufacture of small arms and artillery pieces, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE FACTORY - ORDNANCE STORE — A building or site used by the armed forces for the storage and issuing of military stores and materials.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE STORE - ORDNANCE STOREKEEPERS HOUSE — The residence of a storekeeper of naval ordnance.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE STOREKEEPERS HOUSE - ORDNANCE YARD — A storage area usually for naval weapons and stores.
Search the NHLE for: ORDNANCE YARD - ORE CHUTE — A stone or timber lined channel for conveying ore out of a working.
Search the NHLE for: ORE CHUTE - ORE HEARTH — A furnace for smelting ore in which the fuel and ore are mixed.
Search the NHLE for: ORE HEARTH - ORE STORE — A storehouse for ore, often found in conjunction with a BLAST FURNACE.
Search the NHLE for: ORE STORE - ORE WASHING PLANT — A plant incorporating a range of ore processing operations such as buddles.
Search the NHLE for: ORE WASHING PLANT - ORE WORKS — A site or building where ore is processed to obtain metal.
Search the NHLE for: ORE WORKS - ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER — A dedicated room for housing the organ feeder bellows, can be an underground chamber or a free-standing building.
Search the NHLE for: ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER - ORGAN FACTORY — A factory where musical organs are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: ORGAN FACTORY - ORIENTAL INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society to promote the study of oriental languages and history through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE - ORLIT HUT — A prefabricated structure of reinforced concrete posts and beams with infillings of pre stressed concrete planks and felted slabs. Initially used for military barracks in WWII and later for civilian housing. Manufactured by the Orlit Company.
Search the NHLE for: ORLIT HUT - ORLIT POST — A small prefabricated, reinforced concrete structure manufactured by Messrs Orlit Ltd for the Royal Observer Corps. The first were ordered in 1951, most were redundant by 1955, a few remained in use in eastern England until 1965.
Search the NHLE for: ORLIT POST - ORNAMENTAL BATH — An ornamental garden feature, sometimes with an associated bath house.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL BATH - ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE — A bridge built to enhance or compliment the surrounding landscape. Mainly found on estates or in parkland and usually 18th and 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL BRIDGE - ORNAMENTAL CANAL — An artificial stretch of water, usually rectangular in shape, used decoratively, particularly in formal gardens, eg. Long Water, Hampton Court. Occasionally used to supply water to cascades.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL CANAL - ORNAMENTAL CLEARING — An area of land, usually planted with creeping plants and turf, laid out in a woodland landscape to produce the natural effect of a clearing.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL CLEARING - ORNAMENTAL CLOCK — A functioning clock designed to serve also as an ornamental feature or sculpture.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL CLOCK - ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN — An often highly elaborate water fountain, usually found in parks, gardens or urban spaces.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAIN - ORNAMENTAL GARDEN — A decorative garden, often landscaped, laid out with intricate flower beds and hedges, and often containing ornate sculptures, fountains and garden ornaments.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL GARDEN - ORNAMENTAL LAKE — An artificial lake, often made by damming a stream. A common feature of landscape parks.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL LAKE - ORNAMENTAL POND — A small artificial pond of water often found in parks and gardens, for decorative purposes.
Search the NHLE for: ORNAMENTAL POND - ORPHAN SCHOOL — A school for parentless children.
Search the NHLE for: ORPHAN SCHOOL - ORPHANAGE — A public institution for the care and protection of children without parents.
Search the NHLE for: ORPHANAGE - ORTHODONTICS DEPARTMENT — A hospital department for the medical and surgical treatment of teeth disorders.
Search the NHLE for: ORTHODONTICS DEPARTMENT - ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for followers of the Orthodox Catholic Church. Use only where the specific denomination is unknown.
Search the NHLE for: ORTHODOX CHURCH - ORTHOPAEDIC DEPARTMENT — A department devoted to the curing or correcting of physical deformities.
Search the NHLE for: ORTHOPAEDIC DEPARTMENT - ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL — A hospital devoted to the curing or correcting of physical deformities.
Search the NHLE for: ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL - OSIER BED — A place where osiers (willows) are grown for basket-making.
Search the NHLE for: OSIER BED - OSSUARY — A building, site or container used to store the bones of the dead after they have been removed from graves to allow new burials.
Search the NHLE for: OSSUARY - OUBLIETTE — An underground cell, usually hidden and accessed only through a trapdoor, in which a prisoner was confined and then allegedly forgotten about.
Search the NHLE for: OUBLIETTE - OUTBUILDING — A detached subordinate building. Use specific type where known, eg. DAIRY.
Search the NHLE for: OUTBUILDING - OUTDOOR PLAYHOUSE — A purpose built theatre with a central open yard, dating to the Elizabethan period. Famous examples include The Globe and the Swan.
Search the NHLE for: OUTDOOR PLAYHOUSE - OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL — An unenclosed feature, usually sub-terranean, constructed to contain water for public or private recreation and sporting avtivities. Sometimes part of a LIDO complex. Use INDOOR SWIMMING POOL for pools with a covering structure.
Search the NHLE for: OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL - OUTFALL SEWER — The outlet or mouth of a sewer where it dispenses into the sea, lake, etc.
Search the NHLE for: OUTFALL SEWER - OUTFARM — A multi-purpose farm building in an outlaying area of a farm.
Search the NHLE for: OUTFARM - OUTFITTER — A shop that sells men's clothes, either off the peg, bespoke or both.
Search the NHLE for: OUTFITTER - OUTPATIENTS DEPARTMENT — A hospital department which treats patients without keeping them in overnight or for a longer period.
Search the NHLE for: OUTPATIENTS DEPARTMENT - OVAL BARROW — A form of Neolithic long barrow comprising an oval, rather than rectangular or trapezoidal mound.
Search the NHLE for: OVAL BARROW - OVAL ENCLOSURE — An oval shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: OVAL ENCLOSURE - OVEN — A brick, stone or iron receptacle for baking bread or other food in.
Search the NHLE for: OVEN - OVERBRIDGE — A bridge that crosses over a railway.
Search the NHLE for: OVERBRIDGE - OVERHEAD CRANE — A hoist suspended from a girder within the roof of a building or workshop.
Search the NHLE for: OVERHEAD CRANE - OVERSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel turned by the force of water falling upon the top of the wheel into buckets placed round the circumference.
Search the NHLE for: OVERSHOT WHEEL - OX BOW STONE — Stone for holding ox yokes.
Search the NHLE for: OX BOW STONE - OX ENGINE HOUSE — A round or polygonal building containing a wheel turned by an ox to provide power.
Search the NHLE for: OX ENGINE HOUSE - OXHOUSE — A building in which oxen are accommodated.
Search the NHLE for: OXHOUSE - OXLAND WORKS — Any building, group of buildings, or site at which tungsten ores have been converted to sodium tungstate by means of the Oxland Process. This was first used at Drakewalls Mine, Cornwall, in 1850.
Search the NHLE for: OXLAND WORKS - OYSTER BEDS — A place where oysters are bred for consumption.
Search the NHLE for: OYSTER BEDS
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- PACKAGING EQUIPMENT FACTORY — A factory used to make packaging equipment.
Search the NHLE for: PACKAGING EQUIPMENT FACTORY - PACKAGING FACTORY — A factory used to make packaging.
Search the NHLE for: PACKAGING FACTORY - PACKHORSE BRIDGE — A high-humped, narrow, cobbled bridge used by trains of packhorses, often located in upland areas where the bulk of goods were carried by horses.
Search the NHLE for: PACKHORSE BRIDGE - PACKHORSE ROAD — Narrow, rough tracks often over upland routes used by packhorse trains to carry goods.
Search the NHLE for: PACKHORSE ROAD - PACKHORSE SHELTER — A building in which pack animals could shelter.
Search the NHLE for: PACKHORSE SHELTER - PACKING HOUSE — An ancillary building in a factory or other industrial complex where manufactured goods are packaged.
Search the NHLE for: PACKING HOUSE - PADDOCK — An enclosed field for horses.
Search the NHLE for: PADDOCK - PAGODA — A tall, polygonal structure with ornamental roofs at each storey which is associated with Buddhist temples; the style was adapted for secular eyecatchers and pavilions in the 18th century in England.
Search the NHLE for: PAGODA - PAINT FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the production of paints, varnishes, colours and distemper.
Search the NHLE for: PAINT FACTORY - PAINT SHOP — Workshop for the painting of vehicles, machines, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PAINT SHOP - PAINTBALLING SITE — Site or building used for paintballing.
Search the NHLE for: PAINTBALLING SITE - PALACE — A substantial house in a town or the country (particularly associated with medieval London). Use more specific monument types where known.
Search the NHLE for: PALACE - PALAEOCHANNEL — The course or channel of a river or stream preserved as a geological feature.
Search the NHLE for: PALAEOCHANNEL - PALISADE — An enclosure of stakes driven into the ground, sometimes for defensive purposes.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADE - PALISADE DITCH — A ditch associated with a palisade.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADE DITCH - PALISADED ENCLOSURE — An enclosed settlement surrounded by a single or double row of close-set timbers embedded in a foundation trench, without ditches or banks.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADED ENCLOSURE - PALISADED HILLTOP ENCLOSURE — A small, defended settlement dating to the Early Iron Age, located on spurs, promontories or hilltops. The defences are marked by single or double trenches which originally held substantial palisades.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADED HILLTOP ENCLOSURE - PALISADED HOMESTEAD — A small, defensive settlement, usually consisting of one dwelling and ancillary buildings, surrounded by a palisade.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADED HOMESTEAD - PALISADED SETTLEMENT — A settlement site enclosed within a timber palisade.
Search the NHLE for: PALISADED SETTLEMENT - PALISSADE — Originally a fence against which trees and shrubs were grown. Later used to describe a row of trees and shrubs forming a hedge clipped into a green wall.
Search the NHLE for: PALISSADE - PALM HOUSE — A greenhouse used for growing palms and/or tropical plants.
Search the NHLE for: PALM HOUSE - PAN HOUSE — A component of a salt works housing iron pans where the brine was evaporated above a furnace and flue. Such houses were lightly built in order to allow the heat and steam to escape.
Search the NHLE for: PAN HOUSE - PANHOUSE — A building containing pans in which salt water or brine was boiled to produce salt.
Search the NHLE for: PANHOUSE - PANORAMA — A building, usually circular, or containing circular rooms, for the exhibition of panorama paintings.
Search the NHLE for: PANORAMA - PAPER INDUSTRY SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production and use of paper.
Search the NHLE for: PAPER INDUSTRY SITE - PAPER MILL — A factory where paper is made. Use with power type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PAPER MILL - PAPER YARN MILL — Factory where yarn is made from paper.
Search the NHLE for: PAPER YARN MILL - PARACHUTE AND CABLE LAUNCHER — A site where a cable was fired into the air, with parachutes attached to either end, to present an aerial obstruction to bring down, through contact, fouling and general drag, or obstruct the passage of an aircraft. Usually found as one of a group.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE AND CABLE LAUNCHER - PARACHUTE STORE — Distinctive clerestory-roofed building, used for the drying and storage of military parachutes.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE - PARACHUTE STORE (10825/42) — A distinctive, clerestory-roofed building of three 10ft and two 12ft bays, used for the drying, storage and packing of military parachutes and built to Air Ministry drawing number 10825/42.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE (10825/42) - PARACHUTE STORE (11137/41) — A distinctive, clerestory-roofed building of five 10ft bays, used for the drying, storage and packing of military parachutes and built to Air Ministry drawing number 11137/41.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE (11137/41) - PARACHUTE STORE (175/36) — A protected parachute store similar in design to the 6351/37 except constructed wholly from reinforced concrete.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE (175/36) - PARACHUTE STORE (17865/39) — A distinctive, clerestory-roofed building of five 10ft bays, used for the drying, storage and packing of military parachutes and built to Air Ministry drawing number 17865/39.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE (17865/39) - PARACHUTE STORE (2355/25) — A brick-built building with four windows on the north-facing wall with a pitched roof and with a dormer roof light on both sides, intended for drying, storing and packing parachutes.The 2355/25 was the first design for a purpose-built parachute store.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE (2355/25) - PARACHUTE STORE (3633/35) — A hut 51ft long by 20ft wide used to dry, store and pack parachutes.Similar in design to the 2355/25, but constructed in timber instead of brick.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE (3633/35) - PARACHUTE STORE (6351/37) — A protected parachute store built with permanent brick cavity walls and a roof of reinforced concrete slabs in two heights separated by lantern lights.
Search the NHLE for: PARACHUTE STORE (6351/37) - PARADE GROUND — A place where military personnel parade, practice marching, assemble or muster for a march or any other special purpose.
Search the NHLE for: PARADE GROUND - PARALLEL PLAN — A farmstead, often of linear plan, where the working buildings are placed opposite and parallel to the house and attached working buildings with a relatively narrow space between.
Search the NHLE for: PARALLEL PLAN - PARCHMENT WORKS — A works used for the production of parchment from animal skin.
Search the NHLE for: PARCHMENT WORKS - PARISH BOUNDARY — The limit line of a parish.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH BOUNDARY - PARISH CHURCH — The foremost church within a parish.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH CHURCH - PARISH HALL — A hall built for the use of people living within a parish boundary.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH HALL - PARISH SCHOOL — A school serving or supported by a parish. Usually teaching religious as well as conventional education.
Search the NHLE for: PARISH SCHOOL - PARK — An enclosed piece of land, generally large in area, used for hunting, the cultivation of trees, for grazing sheep and cattle or visual enjoyment. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PARK - PARK HOME — A prefrabicated home sited in parks where a pitch fee is charged. Although technically mobile they usually only make one journey before being permanently installed.
Search the NHLE for: PARK HOME - PARK PALE — A wooden stake fence, often associated with deer hunting.
Search the NHLE for: PARK PALE - PARK SHELTER — A shelter in a public park.
Search the NHLE for: PARK SHELTER - PARK WALL — A stone or brick wall enclosing a park.
Search the NHLE for: PARK WALL - PARKING METER — A coin-operated meter receiving fees for parking a vehicle in a street, and indicating time allowed.
Search the NHLE for: PARKING METER - PARLIAMENT HOUSE — A building in which a parliament meets and conducts the business of government.
Search the NHLE for: PARLIAMENT HOUSE - PARROT HOUSE — A building or cage in which parrots are bred and kept.
Search the NHLE for: PARROT HOUSE - PARTERRE — A level space in a garden occupied by ornamental flower beds.
Search the NHLE for: PARTERRE - PARTIAL SOLAR SALT WORKS — A coastal site producing salt by solar evaporation of seawater in a series of PONDS, followed by boiling of the concentrated brine in a PANHOUSE
Search the NHLE for: PARTIAL SOLAR SALT WORKS - PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Particular Baptists, a Calvinistic Baptist denomination who believe in predestination.
Search the NHLE for: PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHAPEL - PASSAGE GRAVE — A form of Neolithic burial monument comprising a large circular stone or earthen mound, with a low and narrow entrance passage leading to a wider and higher stone built chamber.
Search the NHLE for: PASSAGE GRAVE - PASSIVE AIR DEFENCE SITE — Sites, buildings or structures involved in passive air defence, usually by forcing hostile aircraft to fly high or drop their bombs on the wrong targets. Use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: PASSIVE AIR DEFENCE SITE - PASTURE — A field covered with herbage for the grazing of livestock.
Search the NHLE for: PASTURE - PATENT SLIP — An inclined plane with a cradle designed to lift a ship from the water onto a slip.
Search the NHLE for: PATENT SLIP - PATH — A way made for pedestrians, especially one merely made by walking (often not specially constructed).
Search the NHLE for: PATH - PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department where research and treatment into the causes and nature of diseases or abnormal bodily conditions is carried out.
Search the NHLE for: PATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT - PATIENTS VILLA — A detached block within a hospital complex used as sleeping accommodation for patients.
Search the NHLE for: PATIENTS VILLA - PATIO — A small paved area attached to a building.
Search the NHLE for: PATIO - PATTE D'OIE — A garden featrue where several allees radiate from a single point (usually the house). French for 'Goose Foot'
Search the NHLE for: PATTE D'OIE - PATTERN SHOP — Workshop for the manufacture of master parts from working drawings which are then used as patterns for mass manufacture.
Search the NHLE for: PATTERN SHOP - PATTINSON REFINERY — A long building with a louvred roof in which silver is refined using the Pattinson Process, which had been developed in the 1830s.
Search the NHLE for: PATTINSON REFINERY - PAUPER SCHOOL — A school for the teaching of poor children, often the recipients of Poor Law relief.
Search the NHLE for: PAUPER SCHOOL - PAVEMENT — A path or road for pedestrians, laid or beaten in with stones or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: PAVEMENT - PAVEMENT LIGHTS — A frame containing glass tiles or bricks set into a pavement to allow the lighting of basement areas.
Search the NHLE for: PAVEMENT LIGHTS - PAVILION — A light, sometimes ornamental structure in a garden, park or place of recreation, used for entertainment or shelter. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PAVILION - PAVILION SCHOOL — A school design consisting of single-storey buildings with classrooms entered from a verandah.
Search the NHLE for: PAVILION SCHOOL - PAVILION WARD BLOCK — Detached block comprising one or more storeys of wards.
Search the NHLE for: PAVILION WARD BLOCK - PAWNSHOP — A pawnbrokers shop or place of business.
Search the NHLE for: PAWNSHOP - PAY OFFICE — An office for the payment of wages, especially in industrial or commercial complexes.
Search the NHLE for: PAY OFFICE - PEACE CAMP — An informal encampment, usually near a military establishment, set up as a public protest against that establishment or against some aspect of military policy.
Search the NHLE for: PEACE CAMP - PEACOCK HOUSE — A building used to house peacocks.
Search the NHLE for: PEACOCK HOUSE - PEAT CUTTING — A site where peat (vegetable matter decomposed in water and partly carbonised), used for fuel, is cut.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT CUTTING - PEAT EXTRACTION SITE — A site used for the extraction of peat.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT EXTRACTION SITE - PEAT STAND — A structure used to dry peat on.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT STAND - PEAT STORE — A fuel store for the storage of dried peat.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT STORE - PEAT WORKINGS — Sites and structures associated with the cutting and processing of peat.
Search the NHLE for: PEAT WORKINGS - PEDESTAL — A concrete, cylindrical pedestal on which a spigot mortar was mounted. The pedestal is often the only evidence for a Spigot Mortar emplacement to survive.
Search the NHLE for: PEDESTAL - PEDESTRIAN CROSSING — A path across a road, usually marked as a crossing for pedestrians.
Search the NHLE for: PEDESTRIAN CROSSING - PEDESTRIAN PRECINCT — An area in a town where traffic is prohibited, often containing shops.
Search the NHLE for: PEDESTRIAN PRECINCT - PEDESTRIAN TRANSPORT SITE — Sites and structures associated with pedestrian transport.
Search the NHLE for: PEDESTRIAN TRANSPORT SITE - PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL — An underground foot tunnel primarily constructed to allow for the passage of pedestrians beneath an over ground obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL - PELE TOWER — A strong, fortified dwelling, of between two and four storeys. Occupied only in times of trouble built mainly in the border country of the North from the mid 14th to the 17th century.
Search the NHLE for: PELE TOWER - PELOTA COURT — A court, usually with only 2 walls, used for playing pelota and its variants.
Search the NHLE for: PELOTA COURT - PELTON WHEEL — An impulse water turbine comprising a wheel with hemispherical cups arranged around the circumference using high water pressure to revolve the wheel.
Search the NHLE for: PELTON WHEEL - PEN — A small enclosure for cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PEN - PEN FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the production of pens.
Search the NHLE for: PEN FACTORY - PEN POND — A pond storing water to supply a HAMMER POND.
Search the NHLE for: PEN POND - PENCIL MILL — A factory where pencils are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PENCIL MILL - PENCIL SHARPENING STONE — A stone, usually found in a schoolyard, either built into a wall or forming part of a free standing structure, on which pencils can be sharpened. Although increasingly rare examples do survive.
Search the NHLE for: PENCIL SHARPENING STONE - PENGUIN POOL — A pool of water, and ancillary buildings, designed to accommodate penguins.
Search the NHLE for: PENGUIN POOL - PENITENCE MAZE — A maze used for the act of penitence.
Search the NHLE for: PENITENCE MAZE - PENITENTIARY — An institution for convicted prisoners held under a regime which strove to reform by means of silent isolation and labour.
Search the NHLE for: PENITENTIARY - PENSTOCK — A pipe, usually of reinforced concrete or metal, which delivers pressurized water from a dam to hydraulic turbines.
Search the NHLE for: PENSTOCK - PENTAD HANGAR — An all-steel end-opening, hangar with canted sides designed for folded-wing aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: PENTAD HANGAR - PENTECOSTALIST CHURCH — A place of worship for followers of the Pentecost (ie. emphasising the gifts of the Holy Spirit).
Search the NHLE for: PENTECOSTALIST CHURCH - PEOPLES COLLEGE — A training college where workers can attend classes in vocational subjects. The classes are often day-release and sanctioned by the employer.
Search the NHLE for: PEOPLES COLLEGE - PERCEE — A cutting through a wood to open up a view or establish an allee.
Search the NHLE for: PERCEE - PERFUMERY — A place where perfume is sold, as well as manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PERFUMERY - PERGOLA — Timber or metal structure consisting of upright and cross members designed to support climbing plants.
Search the NHLE for: PERGOLA - PERIMETER TRACK — The outer boundary of an airfield.
Search the NHLE for: PERIMETER TRACK - PET FOOD FACTORY — Factory for the production of Pet Food.
Search the NHLE for: PET FOOD FACTORY - PETANQUE TERRAIN — A prepared piece of ground on which the game of Petanque is played.
Search the NHLE for: PETANQUE TERRAIN - PETRIFYING WELL — A well with an unusually high mineral content that combined with extensive periods of evaporation may give objects a stony exterior. Once believed to have been caused by magic or witchcraft.
Search the NHLE for: PETRIFYING WELL - PETROCHEMICAL SITE — Buildings and plant used for the refining of oil or the production of chemicals using oil.
Search the NHLE for: PETROCHEMICAL SITE - PETROL PUMP — A pump used to transfer petrol from a storage tank into cars, lorries and other road vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: PETROL PUMP - PETROL STATION — A place where vehicles can be filled up with petrol, oil, water, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PETROL STATION - PETROLEUM WARFARE SITE — A site, usually including fuel tanks, pipe works and control buildings, where flaming petroleum was intended to be used as a weapon against a hostile invasion.
Search the NHLE for: PETROLEUM WARFARE SITE - PETTY SESSIONS COURT — A court of summary jurisdiction formally recognized by statute in 1848. Renamed Magistrates Court, following legislation, in 1949.
Search the NHLE for: PETTY SESSIONS COURT - PEWTER WORKS — A site or building used for the manufacture of goods made from pewter, an alloy of tin and lead.
Search the NHLE for: PEWTER WORKS - PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMICAL SITE — Sites used for the production of drugs and other medical products.
Search the NHLE for: PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMICAL SITE - PHARMACEUTICAL WORKS — A large-scale site where medicinal drugs are maufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PHARMACEUTICAL WORKS - PHARMACY — A building where the study and practice of preparing, preserving, compounding and dispensing drugs is performed.
Search the NHLE for: PHARMACY - PHEASANTRY — A place where pheasants are reared and kept.
Search the NHLE for: PHEASANTRY - PHENOL WORKS — A chemical works engaged in the production of the coal tar derivative phenol, a chemical used for the manufacture of explosives during WWI.
Search the NHLE for: PHENOL WORKS - PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL — A place where the science of historical and comparative language is taught.
Search the NHLE for: PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL - PHOENIX CAISSON — A floatable concrete vessel, numbers of which made up the main breakwater of the Mulberry Harbours used to secure beachheads during the allied invasion of Europe in June 1944.
Search the NHLE for: PHOENIX CAISSON - PHOTO INTERPRETATION CENTRE — A building in which photographers, taken for aerial reconnaissance purposes, are analysed and interpreted to provide intelligence on enemy activities.
Search the NHLE for: PHOTO INTERPRETATION CENTRE - PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY — A place where photographs are displayed for sale.
Search the NHLE for: PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY - PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO — A place where photographs are taken of people or things on a commercial basis.
Search the NHLE for: PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO - PHYSIC GARDEN — A garden maintained for the study and cultivation of plants for medicinal purposes.
Search the NHLE for: PHYSIC GARDEN - PHYSICAL DISABILITY HOSPITAL — Specialist hospital treating patients with physical disabilities.
Search the NHLE for: PHYSICAL DISABILITY HOSPITAL - PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department where heat, light, sound, electricity, etc, is administered to patients suffering from muscular or skeletal disorders.
Search the NHLE for: PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT - PIANO FACTORY — A factory where pianos are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PIANO FACTORY - PICKER HOUSE — Working area for rag sorting and grading.
Search the NHLE for: PICKER HOUSE - PICKETT HAMILTON FORT — A sunken, circular, concrete pillbox used on airfields. They remained flush with the surface to permit the free movement of aircraft but, if attack threatened, could be raised hydraulically or by a counterbalance, and manned to give covering fire.
Search the NHLE for: PICKETT HAMILTON FORT - PICRIC ACID WORKS — A chemical works engaged in the manufacture of the coal tar derivative, picric acid, often associated with the textile industry where it was used as a dye, but more commonly with the explosives industry where it was used as the shell filling Lyddite.
Search the NHLE for: PICRIC ACID WORKS - PIE AND MASH SHOP — A cheap eating establishment traditionally serving jellied eels, pies and mash.
Search the NHLE for: PIE AND MASH SHOP - PIECE ROOM — Part of textile mills.
Search the NHLE for: PIECE ROOM - PIER — A structure of iron or wood, open below, running out into the sea and used as a promenade and landing stage.
Search the NHLE for: PIER - PIER PAVILION — A pavilion at the end of a PLEASURE PIER.
Search the NHLE for: PIER PAVILION - PIERMASTERS HOUSE — The residence of a piermaster.
Search the NHLE for: PIERMASTERS HOUSE - PIERMASTERS OFFICE — Office used by a Piermaster.
Search the NHLE for: PIERMASTERS OFFICE - PIGEON CREE — A housing for racing pigeons usually situated in allotments of back yards.
Search the NHLE for: PIGEON CREE - PIGGERY — A place where pigs are reared.
Search the NHLE for: PIGGERY - PIGSTY — An enclosure for pigs that includes a covered pen and yard.
Search the NHLE for: PIGSTY - PILE — Component: Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILE - PILE DWELLING — A dwelling built on marshy, boggy or waterlogged land using timber piles driven vertically into the ground to raise the floor above the ground to prevent flooding.
Search the NHLE for: PILE DWELLING - PILLAR BOX — A hollow pillar, erected in a public place, containing a receptacle for posting letters.
Search the NHLE for: PILLAR BOX - PILLBOX — An often squat building with thick, loopholed walls and a flat roof, designed to accommodate a variety of weapons, usually strategically positioned to cover a vulnerable point in a defensive system. Many were built to standardized designs.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX - PILLBOX (AIR MINISTRY PATTERN) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up by the Air Ministry. Usually found on or near airfields.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (AIR MINISTRY PATTERN) - PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING) — A pillbox constructed for use in training exercises forming part of a simulated defensive position
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (ASSAULT TRAINING) - PILLBOX (CANTILEVERED) — A pillbox in which the roof is detached from the walls and supported by a central pillar, thus leaving an embrasure allowing a 360 degree field of fire.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (CANTILEVERED) - PILLBOX (MODIFIED) — A pillbox which has been modified from a standard Directorate of Fortifications and Works design. Double index with specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (MODIFIED) - PILLBOX (PREFABRICATED) — A pillbox constructed of prefabricated concrete panels. Double index with specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (PREFABRICATED) - PILLBOX (SHELLPROOF) — A pillbox with walls that have been thickened to protect against shells. Double index with specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (SHELLPROOF) - PILLBOX (TYPE 391) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up by the chief engineer of GHQ home forces.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE 391) - PILLBOX (TYPE CE124/41) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up by the chief engineer of South-Eastern Command.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CE124/41) - PILLBOX (TYPE CE2717) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up the chief engineer of Scottish Command
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CE2717) - PILLBOX (TYPE CE2843) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up the chief engineer of Scottish Command
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CE2843) - PILLBOX (TYPE CE390) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up by the chief engineer of GHQ home forces.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CE390) - PILLBOX (TYPE CP/6/40/111) — A circular pillbox, usually consisting of a concrete pipe with a timber and corrugated iron roof, surrounded and covered by earth and sandbags. Built to a design by Norcon Ltd, a company dealing in concrete pipes.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CP/6/40/111) - PILLBOX (TYPE CRE TL62) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up by the commander of the Royal Engineers in Southern Area (Taunton Line).
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CRE TL62) - PILLBOX (TYPE CRE1094) — A pillbox built to a design drawn up by the commander of the Royal Engineers for the Colchester Garrison.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CRE1094) - PILLBOX (TYPE CRE1116) — A pillbox built to a design by the commander of the Royal Engineers for the Colchester Garrison.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE CRE1116) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) — A hexagonal pillbox, with an internal anti-ricochet wall and loopholes for fives light machine guns and one rifle. Originally designed to have 15in bulletproof walls many were built with 42in thick shellproof walls. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/23) — A rectangular pillbox with an enclosed square plan section for three light machine guns and an adjacent open area housing a mounting for a light anti-aircraft weapon. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/23) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) — A hexagonal pillbox with an interanl anti-ricochet wall. The rear wall was lengthened to take two rifle loopholes in addition to the five light machine gun. Both 15in and 42in thick walls are common. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25) — A circular pillbox designed by the Engineering and Metals Company using 'Armco' corrugated iron sheets as the inner and outer skins into which concrete was poured, giving a 12in wall thickness. The design was taken up by DFW and assigned a drawing number.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) — A square pillbox with loopholes for four light machine guns with 18 in thick walls. Probably designed by DFW branch 3 although it may have been adapted from an external source as Southern Command correspondence refers to the type as 'Stento'.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) — A large octagonal pillbox, with a projecting entrance, equipped with loopholes for eight light machine guns and a light anti-aircraft mounting sited in a central well which was accessed from inside the pillbox. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) — A square pillbox with walls up to 48in thick, designed to emplace a 2 pounder anti-tank gun. A large opening in the back allowed the gun to be wheeled into position at the large embrasure in the front wall. Designed by DFW branch 3.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) — A large, rectangular pillbox based on the FW3/28 with the addition of a small infantry chamber to one side of the main gun chamber.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/45) — A pillbox design, assigned a drawing number by DFW branch 3. Although originally believed to be a distinct type, FW3/45 has recently been found to be a design for modifications to existing types. Double index with specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/45) - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/46) — A pillbox design, assigned a drawing number by DFW branch 3. Although originally believed to be a distinct type, FW3/45 has recently been found to be a design for modifications to existing types. Double index with specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/46) - PILLBOX (TYPE PD541) — A circular pillbox designed by the Croft Granite, Brick and Concrete Company, with six loopholes. With no roof or door access was gained through the roof.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (TYPE PD541) - PILLBOX (VARIANT) — A pillbox which varies from standard designs.
Search the NHLE for: PILLBOX (VARIANT) - PILLORY — A wooden frame with holes, through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust, in which state they would be exposed to public ridicule and assault.
Search the NHLE for: PILLORY - PILLOW MOUND — A pillow-shaped, flat topped rectangular mound often surrounded by a shallow ditch used to farm rabbits.
Search the NHLE for: PILLOW MOUND - PILLOW STONE — A small Anglo-Saxon cross-slab buried on the breast or beneath the head of a corpse.
Search the NHLE for: PILLOW STONE - PILOT OFFICE — An office used by a qualified pilot, expert in ship-handling and with local knowledge, who assists the captain or master to take a vessel in or out of a harbour or through narrow waters.
Search the NHLE for: PILOT OFFICE - PIN FACTORY — A building where pins are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: PIN FACTORY - PIN MILL — A building or site used for the manufacture of pins.
Search the NHLE for: PIN MILL - PINERY — A glasshouse used for growing pineapples.
Search the NHLE for: PINERY - PINETUM — An arboretum devoted mainly to the growing of conifers.
Search the NHLE for: PINETUM - PINNACLE — A vertical, pointed structure usually resembling a pyramid or cone. Use for component of a larger building type where it is now used as a freestanding ornament.
Search the NHLE for: PINNACLE - PIPE BRIDGE — Bridge for carrying pipes between buildings or working areas.
Search the NHLE for: PIPE BRIDGE - PIPE WORKSHOP — A workshop used for the manufacture of clay tobacco pipes.
Search the NHLE for: PIPE WORKSHOP - PIPELINE — A conduit or pipes, used primarily for conveying petroleum from oil wells to a refinery, or for supplying water to a town or district, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PIPELINE - PIPELINE BRIDGE — A bridge used for carrying liquids, usually water, although sometimes oil, in a pipeline over a river. Mid 19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: PIPELINE BRIDGE - PISCINA — A perforated stone basin usually built into the wall of a church on the south side of the altar. Used for carrying away the ablutions (wine and water used to rinse the chalice, and wash the priests hands after communion).
Search the NHLE for: PISCINA - PIT — A hole or cavity in the ground, either natural or the result of excavation. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PIT - PIT ALIGNMENT — A single line, or pair of roughly parallel lines, of pits set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes. The pits are not thought to have held posts.
Search the NHLE for: PIT ALIGNMENT - PIT CIRCLE — An enclosure of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date, related to henges, defined by a circular arrangement of pits, probably none of which originally held posts. More than one circle, concentrically arranged, may be present.
Search the NHLE for: PIT CIRCLE - PIT CLUSTER — A spatially discrete group of pits usually containing artefactual material with little or no accompanying evidence for structural features.
Search the NHLE for: PIT CLUSTER - PIT DEFINED ENCLOSURE — An enclosure where the boundary consists of a line of discrete pits, as opposed to a continuous ditch. Use with a term that describes the shape of the monument.
Search the NHLE for: PIT DEFINED ENCLOSURE - PIT TRAP — A pit used to trap game. Often originally covered and consealed, and sometimes with sharpened stakes in the base.
Search the NHLE for: PIT TRAP - PITCH MAKING HEARTH — A hearth constructed specifically for the manufacture of pitch.
Search the NHLE for: PITCH MAKING HEARTH - PITCHBACK WHEEL — A type of waterwheel where the incoming supply of water leaves a launder near the top of the wheel, and drops onto the paddles or buckets of the wheel which rotates in the reverse direction to that of the incoming flow.
Search the NHLE for: PITCHBACK WHEEL - PITHEAD BATHS — A building containing the colliery showers. Also often containing first aid and mine rescue facilities.
Search the NHLE for: PITHEAD BATHS - PLACE OF WORSHIP — A place where appropriate acts, rites and ceremonies are performed to honour or revere a supernatural being, power or holy entity. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PLACE OF WORSHIP - PLAGUE CEMETERY — A burial ground for victims of the plague.
Search the NHLE for: PLAGUE CEMETERY - PLAGUE MEMORIAL — A commemorative monument to victims of the plague.
Search the NHLE for: PLAGUE MEMORIAL - PLAGUE PIT — A deep pit used for the burial of plague victims.
Search the NHLE for: PLAGUE PIT - PLAGUE STONE — A stone on which plague victims placed vinegar-disinfected money to pay for food left for them by the townspeople.
Search the NHLE for: PLAGUE STONE - PLAIN AN GWARRY — A Cornish Medieval amphitheatre used for the performance of mystery plays and sports.
Search the NHLE for: PLAIN AN GWARRY - PLANETARIUM — A building incorporating a model representation of the planetary system projected onto the ceiling.
Search the NHLE for: PLANETARIUM - PLANING MILL — Mill for producing a smooth surface and edges on newly sawn timber.
Search the NHLE for: PLANING MILL - PLANNED SETTLEMENT — A settlement built to a pre-determined plan, including housing, infrastructure and associated amenities.
Search the NHLE for: PLANNED SETTLEMENT - PLANT BED — A plot of earth used for the raising of plants.
Search the NHLE for: PLANT BED - PLANTATION — A group of planted trees or shrubs, generally of uniform age and of a single species.
Search the NHLE for: PLANTATION - PLANTATION BANK — An earthen bank indicating the limit of a plantation.
Search the NHLE for: PLANTATION BANK - PLAQUE — An ornamental, commemorative tablet. Use with materials field when indexing.
Search the NHLE for: PLAQUE - PLASTER MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of plaster.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTER MANUFACTURING SITE - PLASTER MILL — A factory where rock gypsum is ground into a powder used in the production of plaster.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTER MILL - PLASTER WORKS — A site incorporating all of the production processes for the manufacture of plaster.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTER WORKS - PLASTIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT — A hospital department concerned with the reconstruction or repair of parts of the human body using transferred tissue, either in the treatment of injury or for cosmetic reasons.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT - PLASTICS FACTORY — A factory for the production of plastics by chemical processes.
Search the NHLE for: PLASTICS FACTORY - PLATE GLASS WORKS — A factory used for the production of thick, flat glass used for shop window panes, etc. Plate glass is produced by rolling and casting rather than traditional blowing.
Search the NHLE for: PLATE GLASS WORKS - PLATE RACK — A storage rack for sections of steel plate used in the construction of ships.
Search the NHLE for: PLATE RACK - PLATERS SHOP — Large covered spaces where the steel plate used for ship construction was cut and marked out, prior to being craned onto the hull, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PLATERS SHOP - PLATEWAY — A track consisting of flanged strips used in early colliery railways.
Search the NHLE for: PLATEWAY - PLATFORM — Unspecified. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM - PLATFORM BARROW — The rarest of the recognized types of round barrow, consisting of a flat, wide circular mound, which may be surrounded by a ditch. They occur widely across southern England with a marked concentration in East and West Sussex.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM BARROW - PLATFORM CAIRN — A roughly circular monument featuring a low, more or less level platform of stones surrounded or retained by a low stone kerb. Some may feature a small central open area, thus resembling a ring cairn.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM CAIRN - PLATFORM SHELTER — A structure providing protection against the weather, situated on railway platforms.
Search the NHLE for: PLATFORM SHELTER - PLATING WORKS — A factory or group of buildings used for the production of plated goods. Plating is the process whereby one metal object is coated with a thin layer of another metal.
Search the NHLE for: PLATING WORKS - PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT — Fixed equipment, such as slides, swings and climbing frames for children to play on. Often found in playgrounds, parks and school grounds.
Search the NHLE for: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT - PLAYGROUND SHELTER — A rudimentary roofed building found in school playgrounds, open at the side. Used as a shelter from bad weather.
Search the NHLE for: PLAYGROUND SHELTER - PLAYING FIELD — A field or piece of ground used for the playing of games and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: PLAYING FIELD - PLEASANCE — An area attached to a house, or part of an estate used for pleasure and recreation.
Search the NHLE for: PLEASANCE - PLEASURE GARDEN — A type of 18th century public park, with refreshment houses, concert rooms, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PLEASURE GARDEN - PLEASURE PIER — A seaside pier used as a promenade and amusement park.
Search the NHLE for: PLEASURE PIER - PLEDGE DEPOT — A municipal pawnshop.
Search the NHLE for: PLEDGE DEPOT - PLOUGH HEADLAND — A narrow strip of land where a plough and team could turn. This usually remains higher than the ploughed land.
Search the NHLE for: PLOUGH HEADLAND - PLOUGH MARKS — The subsoil traces of cultivation, presumed to have been caused by the use of a plough to till the soil.
Search the NHLE for: PLOUGH MARKS - PLUNGE POOL — A small cold water bath, often known as a natatio when part of a Roman bath complex.
Search the NHLE for: PLUNGE POOL - PLUTO SITE — A site associated with Operation PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean) the operation to supply the allies with fuel following the invasion of Normandy.
Search the NHLE for: PLUTO SITE - POINT BLOCK — A tall multi-storey block of flats, slender with a square plan.
Search the NHLE for: POINT BLOCK - POLICE BOX — A metal, wooden or concrete box containing a telephone for use by the public, limited accommodation for use as a temporary cell, and a lamp on top that could be used to attract the attention of a passing patrol.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE BOX - POLICE HOUSE — A building providing lodgings for police constables.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE HOUSE - POLICE STATION — The office or headquarters of a local police force, or of a police district.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE STATION - POLICE TELEPHONE PILLAR — A metal pillar with a flashable lamp on top containing an emergency telephone for use by members of the public and by officers of the local police force.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE TELEPHONE PILLAR - POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE — An educational establishment for the training of police cadets.
Search the NHLE for: POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE - POLISHING SHOP — A building in which engineered metal products are finished and polished.
Search the NHLE for: POLISHING SHOP - POLISSOIR — Stone used for grinding or polishing during the manufacture of lithic implements
Search the NHLE for: POLISSOIR - POLITICAL CLUB — A building owned by a constituency political party which provides a meeting place for local political activities and also provides entertainment facilities for its members and guests.
Search the NHLE for: POLITICAL CLUB - POLO FIELD — A piece of prepared ground on which the game of polo is played.
Search the NHLE for: POLO FIELD - POLYGONAL ENCLOSURE — An area of land, roughly shaped like a polygon and enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: POLYGONAL ENCLOSURE - POLYTECHNIC — An educational institution, introduced in the 1960s. Distinguished from universities by traditionally training technicians in business, industry and commerce for an immediate local area, and offering more part-time classes, etc.
Search the NHLE for: POLYTECHNIC - POLYTUNNEL — A plastic covered tunnel designed to protect vulnerable plants from the weather and allow vegetables to be grown out of season
Search the NHLE for: POLYTUNNEL - POND — A body of still water often artificially formed for a specific purpose. Use specifc type where known.
Search the NHLE for: POND - POND BARROW — A monument featuring an artificial circular shallow depression surrounded by a bank which runs around the rim of the depression.
Search the NHLE for: POND BARROW - POND BAY — Form of dam, usually associated with ponds supplying water for blast furnaces.
Search the NHLE for: POND BAY - PONTOON BRIDGE — A floating bridge, generally temporary, whose decks are supported on low flat-bottomed or hollow floats.
Search the NHLE for: PONTOON BRIDGE - PONTOON PIER — A form of floating, moveable pier designed for use in open water.
Search the NHLE for: PONTOON PIER - POOL — A small body of water, either natural or artificial.
Search the NHLE for: POOL - POOR SOULS LIGHT — A small, ornate structure in which candles were placed either during masses for the dead or to indicate the position of the cemetery at night .
Search the NHLE for: POOR SOULS LIGHT - PORT — A settlement area that combines a harbour and terminal facilities at the interface between land and water transportation systems.
Search the NHLE for: PORT - PORT ADMIRALS HOUSE — The residence of an admiral of a port.
Search the NHLE for: PORT ADMIRALS HOUSE - PORT AUTHORITY OFFICE — The office of the body controlling a harbour and docks.
Search the NHLE for: PORT AUTHORITY OFFICE - PORTABLE BUILDING — Prefabricated small building that is designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located.
Search the NHLE for: PORTABLE BUILDING - PORTAL — A door, gate, doorway or gateway of grand or elaborate construction. Use specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: PORTAL - PORTAL DOLMEN — A megalithic tomb of Neolithic date comprising a chamber bounded by large upright orthostats, often only three or four in number, which support a large capstone.
Search the NHLE for: PORTAL DOLMEN - PORTAL FRAMED SHED — Mass produced iron framed shed usually clad in metal sheeting.
Search the NHLE for: PORTAL FRAMED SHED - PORTCULLIS — A heavy grating, often made of wood or iron, usually lowered vertically as a defensive barrier at the entrance to a gatehouse or barbican.
Search the NHLE for: PORTCULLIS - PORTERS LODGE — A small building used by the keeper of a castle, park, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PORTERS LODGE - PORTERS REST — A small structure comprising of a 'shelf' of wood or metal sitting on pillars and erected for the benefit of porters to allow them to rest their burdens.
Search the NHLE for: PORTERS REST - POSITION FINDING STATION — A structure consisting of different cells equipped with instrument posts which supported finders. These provided range and bearing of the projected position of the target to guns emplaced in a nearby battery. Errected along the coast in the late 1870s.
Search the NHLE for: POSITION FINDING STATION - POST ALIGNMENT — An alignment of posts or postholes of unknown function
Search the NHLE for: POST ALIGNMENT - POST BOX — A box in which letters are posted or deposited for dispatch.
Search the NHLE for: POST BOX - POST BUILT STRUCTURE — A structure indicated by the presence of post holes and of uncertain interpretation.
Search the NHLE for: POST BUILT STRUCTURE - POST HOLE — A hole dug to provide a firm base for an upright post, often with stone packing. Use broader monument type where known.
Search the NHLE for: POST HOLE - POST MILL — A type of windmill, mainly timber-framed, whose body, containing machinery and carrying the sail, rotates about an upright post.
Search the NHLE for: POST MILL - POST MILL ROUNDHOUSE — A circular or octagonal building at the base of a post mill to provide storage space and to give protection to the superstructure. The roundhouse is not attached to the mill itself. Some roundhouses were later converted for domestic purposes.
Search the NHLE for: POST MILL ROUNDHOUSE - POST OFFICE — A building, department or shop where postal business is carried on.
Search the NHLE for: POST OFFICE - POST TRENCH — A construction trench dug to receive a line of posts for a wall, with associated packing.
Search the NHLE for: POST TRENCH - POSTAL SYSTEM STRUCTURE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the collection, distribution, sending and reception of mail.
Search the NHLE for: POSTAL SYSTEM STRUCTURE - POSTERN — A small gateway cut through the curtain wall or its flanking towers. Used primarily as an outlet for counter-attacking forces.
Search the NHLE for: POSTERN - POT ARCH — Type of furnace used in the glass industry to pre-heat glass in crucibles, prior to the main melt. This may have been a separtate structure, or may have been part of the main furnace. All periods from the Roman onwards.
Search the NHLE for: POT ARCH - POTASH KILN — A kiln used for the slow burning of vegetable matter to produce potassium carbonate.
Search the NHLE for: POTASH KILN - POTASH MINE — A mine from which potash is obtained. Potash is a deposit of potassium carbonate: the only example of a potash mine in the country is at Boulby in Cleveland.
Search the NHLE for: POTASH MINE - POTTERY KILN — A structure, composed of oven and hovel, used for the firing of pottery ware.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY KILN - POTTERY MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of pottery. Use only for sites where there is evidence of pottery manufacture but no specific monument, otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY MANUFACTURING SITE - POTTERY WORKS — A complex of buildings used for the manufacture of pottery.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY WORKS - POTTERY WORKSHOP — A building or room where items of pottery are manufactured. Includes handcrafted and machine made pottery.
Search the NHLE for: POTTERY WORKSHOP - POTTING SHED — A shed in which delicate plants are reared from seedlings for planting out later.
Search the NHLE for: POTTING SHED - POULTIGGERY — A building combining a pigsty at ground level with a poultry house in a loft over.
Search the NHLE for: POULTIGGERY - POULTRY HOUSE — A structure providing accommodation for poultry.
Search the NHLE for: POULTRY HOUSE - POUND — A pen, often circular and stone-walled, for rounding up livestock.
Search the NHLE for: POUND - POUND LOCK — A common type of lock in the form of a chamber with gates on either side.
Search the NHLE for: POUND LOCK - POWDER MAGAZINE — A place in which gunpowder and other explosives are stored in large quantities.
Search the NHLE for: POWDER MAGAZINE - POWER GENERATION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the generation and transmission of power.
Search the NHLE for: POWER GENERATION SITE - POWER HOUSE — A building housing the permanent electricity generator supply for domestic use or small scale unspecified power generation on an airfield. Unlike stand by set houses, power houses had to cope with both essential and non-essential loads.
Search the NHLE for: POWER HOUSE - POWER HOUSE (1380/24) — A power house built to Air Ministry drawing number 1380/24.
Search the NHLE for: POWER HOUSE (1380/24) - POWER HOUSE (207/17) — A power house built to Air Ministry drawing number 207/17 and comprising four rooms; a driver's room, workshop and store, battery room and engine room containing 2 generator sets.
Search the NHLE for: POWER HOUSE (207/17) - POWER HOUSE (476/18) — The standard RFC power house built to Air Ministry drawing number 476/18 and comprising an engine room with a small workshop and driver's room.
Search the NHLE for: POWER HOUSE (476/18) - POWER LOOM SHED — A building housing a number of power looms.
Search the NHLE for: POWER LOOM SHED - POWER STATION — A building or set of buildings and structures where power, especially electrical or mechanical, is generated. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: POWER STATION - PRACTICE TRENCH — A system of trenches dug by troops for practice purposes.
Search the NHLE for: PRACTICE TRENCH - PREACHING CROSS — A cross, erected on a highway or in an open place, at which monks and others used to preach.
Search the NHLE for: PREACHING CROSS - PREACHING PIT — A large, circular hollow, often with a platform and seating built into the sides, used for preaching.
Search the NHLE for: PREACHING PIT - PRECEPTORY — A manor or estate owned and run by an order of knights and governed by a preceptor.
Search the NHLE for: PRECEPTORY - PRECINCT — The ground immediately surrounding a place, particularly a religious building.
Search the NHLE for: PRECINCT - PRECINCT WALL — A wall enclosing a precinct.
Search the NHLE for: PRECINCT WALL - PREFABRICATED BRIDGE — A bridge manufactured from prefabricated sections.
Search the NHLE for: PREFABRICATED BRIDGE - PREFABRICATED BUILDING — A building constructed from prefabricated sections. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PREFABRICATED BUILDING - PREFABRICATED CLASSROOM — A classroom constructed from prefabricated sections.
Search the NHLE for: PREFABRICATED CLASSROOM - PREFABRICATED HOUSE — A type of prefabricated house erected, to 11 approved designs, as part of the Temporary Housing Programme, between 1944 and 1948. This scheme was devised to relieve the post-war housing shortage at a time when conventional materials were unavailable.
Search the NHLE for: PREFABRICATED HOUSE - PREMONSTRATENSIAN ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Premonstratensian order dependent on a foreign mother house.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN ALIEN CELL - PREMONSTRATENSIAN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Premonstratensian order dependent on an English mother house.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN CELL - PREMONSTRATENSIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Premonstratensian order.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN GRANGE - PREMONSTRATENSIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Premonstratensian canons.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN MONASTERY - PREMONSTRATENSIAN NUNNERY — A priory of Premonstratensian canonesses.
Search the NHLE for: PREMONSTRATENSIAN NUNNERY - PREPARATORY SCHOOL — An independent school for children up to the age of 11 or 13 in which pupils are prepared for entry into a public school.
Search the NHLE for: PREPARATORY SCHOOL - PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Presbyterians, a movement who started off attempting to reform Anglicanism before breaking away in 1660. Sometimes referred to as moderate puritans, they joined with the Congregationalists to form the United Reformed church in 1972.
Search the NHLE for: PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WALES CHAPEL — A place of worship for Welsh Presbyterians. Formerly known as Calvinistic Methodists, the Presbyterian Church of Wales separated from the established church in 1811.
Search the NHLE for: PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WALES CHAPEL - PRESS HOUSE — A building containing presses for the compaction of mill cake gunpowder as part of the gunpowder manufacturing process.
Search the NHLE for: PRESS HOUSE - PRESS SHOP — A workshop containing machinery used to press textiles.
Search the NHLE for: PRESS SHOP - PRIEST HOLE — A hiding place for a (Roman Catholic) priest.
Search the NHLE for: PRIEST HOLE - PRIESTS HOUSE — The residence of a priest.
Search the NHLE for: PRIESTS HOUSE - PRIMARY SCHOOL — A school which combines the functions of both Infant and Junior Schools, teaching children up to the age of eleven. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PRIMARY SCHOOL - PRIMATE HOUSE — A building used to house apes and monkeys.
Search the NHLE for: PRIMATE HOUSE - PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Primitive Methodists, a group who were formed in Staffordshire and influenced by American evangelical ideas and who left the Methodists in 1811.
Search the NHLE for: PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL - PRINT SHOP — A printer's workshop in the newspaper/publishing industries.
Search the NHLE for: PRINT SHOP - PRINTING AND PUBLISHING SITE — Buildings and sites associated with the printing and publishing industry.
Search the NHLE for: PRINTING AND PUBLISHING SITE - PRINTING SHOP — A workshop for printing textiles in a CALICO PRINTING WORKS.
Search the NHLE for: PRINTING SHOP - PRINTING WORKS — A factory or complex containing machinery for the manufacture of printed materials.
Search the NHLE for: PRINTING WORKS - PRIORY — A monastery governed by a prior or prioress. Use with narrow terms of DOUBLE HOUSE, FRIARY, MONASTERY or NUNNERY.
Search the NHLE for: PRIORY - PRISON — An establishment where offenders are confined. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON - PRISON CHAPEL — A chapel for a prison, either attached or in a separate building.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON CHAPEL - PRISON GOVERNORS HOUSE — The residence of a prison governor.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON GOVERNORS HOUSE - PRISON HULK — The hull of a dismantled ship used as a prison.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON HULK - PRISON TREADMILL — An appliance for producing motion by the stepping of men on movable steps on a revolving cylinder. Used as a form of punishment in prisons.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON TREADMILL - PRISON VISITORS CENTRE — A centre attached to a prison where families and friends can visit with the inmates.
Search the NHLE for: PRISON VISITORS CENTRE - PRISONER OF WAR CAMP — A prison site for the containment of servicemen captured in war.
Search the NHLE for: PRISONER OF WAR CAMP - PRIVATE CHAPEL — A small private chapel in a church or house, either attached or in a separate building.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE CHAPEL - PRIVATE NURSING HOME — A privately-funded home for the care of the elderly.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE NURSING HOME - PRIVATE PATIENTS WARD — An area within a hospital where patients receiving privately-funded medical and surgical treatment are accommodated. Often includes separate rooms.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE PATIENTS WARD - PRIVATE SCHOOL — A school that is established, run and supported by a private, non-governmental body.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE SCHOOL - PRIVATE SQUARE — An open area, often paved or cobbled, surrounded by privately owned buildings and inaccessible to the public.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE SQUARE - PRIVATE SURGERY — A surgery where patients who pay for medical treatments are seen and treated.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVATE SURGERY - PRIVY HOUSE — A small building housing a lavatory.
Search the NHLE for: PRIVY HOUSE - PRODUCER GAS HOUSE — A building used to manufacture Producer Gas. Producer Gas is a mix of gases formed by passing compressed air through hot coke.
Search the NHLE for: PRODUCER GAS HOUSE - PRODUCTIVE WALLED GARDEN — A large kitchen garden enclosed by a substantial wall, not usually adjacent to its associated house.
Search the NHLE for: PRODUCTIVE WALLED GARDEN - PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE — A building used by organizations or societies for the promotion of a particular profession through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE - PROMENADE — A place for strolling, public walks, etc. Usually associated with coastal resorts.
Search the NHLE for: PROMENADE - PROMONTORY FORT — A defensive enclosure created by constructing one or more lines of ramparts across a neck of land, in order to defend, or restrict access to, a spur or promontory, either inland or on the coast.
Search the NHLE for: PROMONTORY FORT - PROOF RANGE — A site where weapons and/or explosives are tested experimentally, or are routinely tested as part of a manufacturing quality control process.
Search the NHLE for: PROOF RANGE - PROPRIETARY SCHOOL — A school in which the funds were raised through a system of shareholding whereby parents bought shares in the school and thus paid for their children's education.
Search the NHLE for: PROPRIETARY SCHOOL - PROSPECT MOUND — An artificial mound, generally conical, placed within a garden or park to provide a viewing point to overlook the garden or park. It may also serve as a visual focus in the garden or park layout.
Search the NHLE for: PROSPECT MOUND - PROSPECT TOWER — A tower built on a prominent part of an estate to provide panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
Search the NHLE for: PROSPECT TOWER - PROSPECTING PIT — A pit dug in the prospect of finding valuable minerals, coal, metal ores, etc, beneath the ground surface.
Search the NHLE for: PROSPECTING PIT - PROTEST CAMP — A temporary settlement established as a public protest against an aspect of government policy or more specifically the development of a site.
Search the NHLE for: PROTEST CAMP - PROTESTANT METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Protestant Methodists, a group who broke away from the Methodists to form their church in Leeds in 1828.
Search the NHLE for: PROTESTANT METHODIST CHAPEL - PROVING HOUSE — A building used for the testing of weapons for quality, accuracy and explosive power.
Search the NHLE for: PROVING HOUSE - PROVOSTS HOUSE — The residence of the head or president of a chapter, or community of religious persons.
Search the NHLE for: PROVOSTS HOUSE - PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL — Nowadays a hospital where patients suffering from psychiatric disorders receive medical care and treatment. Traditionally they were often places where psychiatric patients were kept confined away from society receiving minimal medical care or attention.
Search the NHLE for: PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL - PSYCHIATRIC WARD — A section of a hospital specializing in the treatment of patients with serious mental disorders.
Search the NHLE for: PSYCHIATRIC WARD - PSYCHIATRIC WARD BLOCK — Nowadays a hospital block where patients suffering from psychiatric disorders receive medical and surgical treatment. Formerly a place where psychiatric patients were primarily segregated from other patients in a hospital.
Search the NHLE for: PSYCHIATRIC WARD BLOCK - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE INSTITUTION — Name given to a workhouse after 1929. The Local Government Act of 1929 abolished Poor Law Unions and Guardians, and control passed to public assistance authorities run by county boroughs and county councils. Lasted until 1948 when poor laws were repealed.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC ASSISTANCE INSTITUTION - PUBLIC BUILDING — A building or group of buildings owned and operated by a governing body and often occupied by a government agency. Use specific type of building where known.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC BUILDING - PUBLIC CONVENIENCE — A toilet or toilets for public use.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC CONVENIENCE - PUBLIC HALL — A purpose-built hall (usually 19th century) which was available for public hire and could be used for a variety of activities, eg. lectures, meetings, balls and concerts.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC HALL - PUBLIC HOUSE — The public house was a 19th century development, distinctive from the earlier BEER HOUSE by its decorative treatment and fittings.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC HOUSE - PUBLIC LIBRARY — A library for use of the public.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC LIBRARY - PUBLIC PARK — A park for the use of the public for entertainment and relaxation.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC PARK - PUBLIC SCHOOL — An endowed school providing a liberal education for such as can afford it.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC SCHOOL - PUBLIC SQUARE — An open area, often paved or cobbled, surrounded by buildings and accessible to the public.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC SQUARE - PUBLIC WASH HOUSE — A laundry built in conjunction with a PUBLIC BATHS.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLIC WASH HOUSE - PUBLISHING HOUSE — An establishment where books, periodicals, music, etc, are produced from original manuscripts and distributed to booksellers, dealers and the public.
Search the NHLE for: PUBLISHING HOUSE - PUDDLING FURNACE — A reverberatory furnace used for forging wrought iron from pig iron using coal as fuel.
Search the NHLE for: PUDDLING FURNACE - PUG MILL — Machine, frequently horse powered, for mixing raw clay into brick earth.
Search the NHLE for: PUG MILL - PULP MILL — Building housing the machinery for the shredding and grinding of wood in running water and pressing of the resulting fibres into a pulp.
Search the NHLE for: PULP MILL - PULPIT — Use as an external architectural feature only.
Search the NHLE for: PULPIT - PUMP — A machine used to raise and move water and other liquids, compress gases, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP - PUMP HOUSE — A small pumping station.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP HOUSE - PUMP ROOM — A room or building where a pump is worked.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP ROOM - PUMP ROOMS — A spa building to which water was pumped from springs or wells; usually also serving a social function as an ASSEMBLY ROOM, eg. as at Bath.
Search the NHLE for: PUMP ROOMS - PUMPING STATION — A waterworks pumping station.
Search the NHLE for: PUMPING STATION - PUNISHMENT PLACE — A site where acts of corporal and capital punishment were carried out.
Search the NHLE for: PUNISHMENT PLACE - PURIFIER — A machine used in a mill to remove bran scales and flour from grits or middlings.
Search the NHLE for: PURIFIER - PURIFIER HOUSE — A building, within a gas works, housing a gas purifier.
Search the NHLE for: PURIFIER HOUSE - PUT ON STONE — A stone used to instruct a coachman to take an extra trace horse to assist on roads of a steep gradient.
Search the NHLE for: PUT ON STONE - PUTTING GREEN — An open area of prepared ground used for practising putting with golf clubs.
Search the NHLE for: PUTTING GREEN - PUTTY MILL — A factory where putty, used as a means of securing windows and for setting plumbing fixtures, is produced from a combination of whiting and oil.
Search the NHLE for: PUTTY MILL - PYROTECHNIC STORE (2647/37) — A protected building used for the storage of explosives and other pyrotechnic equipment and designed to Air Ministry drawing number 2647/37.
Search the NHLE for: PYROTECHNIC STORE (2647/37)
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- Q PIT — A kiln in the form of a pit dug into the earth which was used for the the production of white coal prior to the Industrial Revolution.
Search the NHLE for: Q PIT - Q SITE — A decoy site designed to simulate the flarepath lighting of permanent RAF stations, to lure attacking night bombers away from legitimate targets.
Search the NHLE for: Q SITE - Q SITE SHELTER (3395/40) — An operations room, built to drawing number 3395/40, to control the lighting arrays of the 'T' type of bombing decoy in use during the Second World War. It was semi-sunken for added protection and then covered in earth
Search the NHLE for: Q SITE SHELTER (3395/40) - Q SITE SHELTER (367/41) — An operations room, built to drawing number 367/41, to control the lighting arrays of the DREM type of bombing decoy in use during the Second World War. Unlike earlier designs it was surface built and then covered in earth to protect against flooding.
Search the NHLE for: Q SITE SHELTER (367/41) - QF SITE — A decoy fire positioned close to a legitimate target which would be lit in the event of an incendiary attack in the hope that subsequent bombs would be drawn to the area of the decoy.
Search the NHLE for: QF SITE - QL SITE — A decoy site designed to simulate permitted lighting, such as locomotives, furnaces and tramwire flashes, to lure attacking night bombers away from legitimate targets.
Search the NHLE for: QL SITE - QUADRANGULAR CASTLE — A castle built on a simple, rectangular plan, usually with a tower at each corner. This design became common in England after 1300.
Search the NHLE for: QUADRANGULAR CASTLE - QUADRANT TOWER — An enclosed observation tower, usually made of brick or concrete and raised on four legs, associated with WW2 bombing ranges.
Search the NHLE for: QUADRANT TOWER - QUADRIGA — A sculptured group comprising a chariot drawn by four horses.
Search the NHLE for: QUADRIGA - QUARRY — An excavation from which stone for building and other functions, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
Search the NHLE for: QUARRY - QUARRY HOIST — Machinery for lifting pieces of stone or loaded trucks out of a quarry.
Search the NHLE for: QUARRY HOIST - QUARTERMASTERS STORE — A building or group of buildings used for the storage and issuing of rations and equipment to an army unit.
Search the NHLE for: QUARTERMASTERS STORE - QUASI AISLED HOUSE — A house with no row of posts between the central space and the aisles.
Search the NHLE for: QUASI AISLED HOUSE - QUAY — An artificial paved bank or solid landing place built parallel to, or projecting out from, the shoreline to serve in the loading and unloading of vessels.
Search the NHLE for: QUAY - QUAY CRANE — A crane located on a quayside used for the loading and unloading of goods and materials to and from vessels.
Search the NHLE for: QUAY CRANE - QUERN WORKING SITE — A site used for the manufacture and finishing of querns.
Search the NHLE for: QUERN WORKING SITE - QUINCUNX — A geometrical planting of trees in the form of the number 5 as represented on a dice.
Search the NHLE for: QUINCUNX - QUINTAIN — An object supported by a crosspiece on a post, used by knights as a target in tilting.
Search the NHLE for: QUINTAIN - QUOITS GROUND — An area of ground used for the game of quoits.
Search the NHLE for: QUOITS GROUND - QUONSET HUT — A lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semicircular cross section. The design was based on the Nissen hut developed by the British during the First World War.
Search the NHLE for: QUONSET HUT
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- RABBIT TRAP — Term applied to both the pit trap itself, and the walled enclosure containing pit trap(s).
Search the NHLE for: RABBIT TRAP - RABBIT TYPE — Term applied to a pit trap itself and also a walled enclosure containing one or more pit traps.
Search the NHLE for: RABBIT TYPE - RABBIT WARREN — An area used for the breeding and rearing of rabbits.
Search the NHLE for: RABBIT WARREN - RACE TRACK — A piece of ground on which athletes race.
Search the NHLE for: RACE TRACK - RACECOURSE — An area or route marked out for the site of a race.
Search the NHLE for: RACECOURSE - RACECOURSE PAVILION — A building situated next to a horse racing course with facilities for participants and spectators.
Search the NHLE for: RACECOURSE PAVILION - RACING CIRCUIT — A piece of ground used for motor racing.
Search the NHLE for: RACING CIRCUIT - RACING SPORTS SITE — A building, site or structure associated with various racing sports.
Search the NHLE for: RACING SPORTS SITE - RACING STABLE — A building or range of buildings used to accommodate race horses.
Search the NHLE for: RACING STABLE - RACKET SPORTS SITE — A building, site or structure associated with the playing of racket sports.
Search the NHLE for: RACKET SPORTS SITE - RACKING ROOM — A building or room where beer is decanted from conditioning tanks, into casks or barrels.
Search the NHLE for: RACKING ROOM - RACQUETS COURT — A plain four walled court used to play the game of racquets on.
Search the NHLE for: RACQUETS COURT - RADAR BEACON — A structure which allows aircraft fitted with radar equipment to 'home' in on an airfield in the dark or in poor visibility, and land safely. Radar beacons can also be used as navigation aids.
Search the NHLE for: RADAR BEACON - RADAR MAST — A tall, usually steel, structure used to receive and transmit radio signals in order to determine the height, distance and number of aircraft approaching.
Search the NHLE for: RADAR MAST - RADAR STATION — A building or site incorporating equipment used for detecting the presence of enemy aircraft or ships. Radar Stations can also be used to aid aircraft navigation in dark or poor conditions.
Search the NHLE for: RADAR STATION - RADAR STATION SET HOUSE — A building housing the generator set and associated equipment supplying electricity to a radar station.
Search the NHLE for: RADAR STATION SET HOUSE - RADIO BROADCASTING STUDIO — A place where radio programmes are produced and broadcast.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO BROADCASTING STUDIO - RADIO POSITIONING STATION — An offshore station, equipped with a fixed electronic radio navigation and positioning system such as Hyperfix. The transmission principle are pulsed and phase comparisons systems. Superceded by Global Positioning System in 1994.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO POSITIONING STATION - RADIO STATION — A building or group of buildings containing equipment capable of transmitting and receiving radio signals. Use BROADCASTING RADIO STATION for broadcasting establishments e.g. BBC Radio stations.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO STATION - RADIO STUDIO — A room or building used for recording and broadcasting radio programmes.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO STUDIO - RADIO TELEGRAPHY MAST — A tall, usually steel, structure used to receive and transmit radio telegraphy signals.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO TELEGRAPHY MAST - RADIO TELEGRAPHY STATION — A building or group of buildings, incorporating radio masts, built to intercept radio transmissions from enemy vessels and aircraft during WWI and WWII.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO TELEGRAPHY STATION - RADIO TELESCOPE — A large dish-like structure designed to observe the invisible outerspace phenomena detected by radio waves, eg. Jodrell Bank.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO TELESCOPE - RADIO VALVE WORKS — A complex of buildings used for the manufacture of radio valves or similar electronic components.
Search the NHLE for: RADIO VALVE WORKS - RADIOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT — A place where patients have X-Rays taken to highlight an illness or irregularity.
Search the NHLE for: RADIOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT - RADIUM INSTITUTE — A building where radium is used in the treatment of cancer.
Search the NHLE for: RADIUM INSTITUTE - RAG GRINDING MILL — A mill in which textile rags were ground, either to enable the fibres to be respun or to use the pulp in the manufacture of paper.
Search the NHLE for: RAG GRINDING MILL - RAG GRINDING SHED — Shed for grinding rags, eg. for use in mungo and shoddy mills.
Search the NHLE for: RAG GRINDING SHED - RAG MILL — A mill used for grinding textile rags.
Search the NHLE for: RAG MILL - RAG SORTING HOUSE — A building in which textile rags are sorted according to fibre types.
Search the NHLE for: RAG SORTING HOUSE - RAGGED SCHOOL — A free school for poor children.
Search the NHLE for: RAGGED SCHOOL - RAIDSAFE SHELTER — A small, industrially manufactured, air raid shelter, designed to be used inside buildings and to provide cover for nightwatchmen or firewatchers remaining on site during air raids.
Search the NHLE for: RAIDSAFE SHELTER - RAIL DEPOT — A railway yard with associated buildings used for the maintenance and storage of locomotive engines and rolling stock.
Search the NHLE for: RAIL DEPOT - RAILBLOCK — Obstacles, often semi permanent, which are placed on railway lines to prevent the enemy from using them. Set up during the defence of Britain.
Search the NHLE for: RAILBLOCK - RAILINGS — A fence or barrier made of metal or wooden rails.
Search the NHLE for: RAILINGS - RAILWAY — A line or track consisting of iron or steel rails, on which passenger carriages or goods wagons are moved, usually by a locomotive engine.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY - RAILWAY BRIDGE — A bridge carrying a railway track across a river, valley, road etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY BRIDGE - RAILWAY BUFFET — A small eating and drinking establishment or refreshment bar at a railway station for the use of passengers.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY BUFFET - RAILWAY BUILDING — A building or structure of unknown function found on a railway. Use more specific type where known
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY BUILDING - RAILWAY CARRIAGE — Use for stationary railway carriage being used for a purpose it wasn't originally intended for - office, shelter, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CARRIAGE - RAILWAY CARRIAGE SHED — A building used to house railway carriages.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CARRIAGE SHED - RAILWAY CARRIAGE WORKS — An engineering site where railway carriages are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CARRIAGE WORKS - RAILWAY CONTROL CENTRE — A building used to coordinate movement of railway engines and rolling stock in the event of war.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CONTROL CENTRE - RAILWAY CUTTING — A man-made trough or valley through a hill, carrying at its base a railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY CUTTING - RAILWAY EMBANKMENT — A man-made ridge to carry a railway across a declivity or area subject to flooding.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY EMBANKMENT - RAILWAY ENGINEERING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the construction and maintenance of railways and rolling stock.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY ENGINEERING SITE - RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKS — A large site specializing in the manufacture of locomotives.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKS - RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKSHOP — An engineering workshop, often attached to an engine shed, for the running repairs of operational parts, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY ENGINEERING WORKSHOP - RAILWAY HOTEL — A hotel adjacent to a railway terminus. Railway hotels were often owned by a railway company.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY HOTEL - RAILWAY INCLINED PLANE — An embankment or cutting on a railway system, surfaced at a uniform gradient, up or down which materials were hauled by rope.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY INCLINED PLANE - RAILWAY JUNCTION — A place where two or more railway lines meet.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY JUNCTION - RAILWAY LIFT — A mechanically operated lift used to transfer rolling stock from one level of track to another.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY LIFT - RAILWAY LOOKOUT TOWER — A semaphore signalling tower on a railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY LOOKOUT TOWER - RAILWAY OFFICE — A building or room where railway tickets may be bought and administrative duties associated with a railway are conducted.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY OFFICE - RAILWAY PLATFORM — A raised floor along the side of a line at a railway station, for convenience in entering and alighting from a train.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY PLATFORM - RAILWAY SIDING — A short piece of track lying parallel to the main railway line enabling trains and trucks to pass one another. Sidings can also be used to park trains which are not in use.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY SIDING - RAILWAY SIGNAL — A structure with semaphore arms and/or coloured lights used as a means of warning on railway systems.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY SIGNAL - RAILWAY STABLE — A stable located at a railway station or goods yard. Horses were necessary both for freight and passengers to continue their journey beyond the railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY STABLE - RAILWAY STATION — A place where railway trains regularly stop for taking up and setting down passengers or for receiving goods for transport.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY STATION - RAILWAY STOREHOUSE — A small store building at a railway station for the storage of equipment and other stores associated with the railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY STOREHOUSE - RAILWAY SYSTEM — An arrangement of railway tracks, stations and other buildings that together form a railway transport system.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY SYSTEM - RAILWAY TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with railway transport.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TRANSPORT SITE - RAILWAY TUNNEL — A tunnel running under a river or a hillside through which a railway line runs.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TUNNEL - RAILWAY TUNNEL PORTAL — An often stately or ornate entrance to a railway tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TUNNEL PORTAL - RAILWAY TURNTABLE — A piece of machinery on which a railway engine, carriage or wagon can be rotated at a railway terminal.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY TURNTABLE - RAILWAY VIADUCT — A bridge, usually resting on raised arches, carrying a railway across low-lying land or water.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY VIADUCT - RAILWAY WAGON WORKS — Engineering works specializing in the production and maintenance of non-passenger carrying railway rolling stock.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WAGON WORKS - RAILWAY WAREHOUSE — A large building, situated at a railway terminus, used for the temporary storage of goods or merchandise awaiting transportation to or from a railway.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WAREHOUSE - RAILWAY WATER TROUGH — A very long trough laid between the rails of a railway track to allow a suitably equiped steam engine to scoop up water whilst in motion.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WATER TROUGH - RAILWAY WORKERS COTTAGE — Purpose-built housing for railway workers.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKERS COTTAGE - RAILWAY WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT — A temporary settlement or shanty-town erected by railway construction workers or "navvys".
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT - RAILWAY WORKS — An engineering works producing items for the railway other than rolling stock, such as signals, tracks, points, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKS - RAILWAY WORKSHOP — An ancilliary workshop used for repairs, etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAILWAY WORKSHOP - RAIN GAUGE — An instrument for gauging the amount of rain which has fallen over a stated period.
Search the NHLE for: RAIN GAUGE - RAINWATER HEAD — The receptacle at the top of a rain-water pipe which gathers the water from one or more outlets or gutters on the roof.
Search the NHLE for: RAINWATER HEAD - RAISED BED — A bed raised above the level of the surrounding walks. A common feature of medieval and Renaissance gardens.
Search the NHLE for: RAISED BED - RAISED PAVEMENT — A pavement walkway for pedestrian use, often raised above the level of a road or path.
Search the NHLE for: RAISED PAVEMENT - RAKE — A vertical vein of metallic ore, usually lead, occuring between walls of rock and cutting through the bedding. Often rakes have been worked from early times leaving deep trenches several km long, with adits leading off and shafts sunk at the side.
Search the NHLE for: RAKE - RAMP — An inclined plane connecting two different levels, used to accomodate the movement of vehicles, wheeled apparatus,livestock etc.
Search the NHLE for: RAMP - RAMPART — A protective earthen mound, often the main defence of a fortification.
Search the NHLE for: RAMPART - RAMS PEN — Cubicles for housing rams, resembling pigsties with their own yard but slightly larger.
Search the NHLE for: RAMS PEN - RANCH BOUNDARY — A system of long, continuous banks and/or ditches dividing land into well defined areas. Possibly used for controlling livestock
Search the NHLE for: RANCH BOUNDARY - RANGERS HOUSE — The residence of a keeper of a royal park etc.
Search the NHLE for: RANGERS HOUSE - RAPID LOADING STATION — A group of buildings and machines, usually situated close to the pithead, enabling the rapid, mechanized loading of goods wagons with coal.
Search the NHLE for: RAPID LOADING STATION - RAVELIN — In fortification, a detached triangular outwork consisting of two battered faces forming a salient angle. Usually positioned in the ditch in front of a rampart and between two bastions. Term mainly for military architecture from 15th century and later.
Search the NHLE for: RAVELIN - READING ROOM — A room in a library or institution providing periodicals, newspapers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: READING ROOM - REAL TENNIS COURT — An indoor court where the ancient and complex sport of real tennis is played, eg. the court at Hampton Court Palace.
Search the NHLE for: REAL TENNIS COURT - REAVE — A stone wall, often of considerable length, built to divide an area of land. Most occur as part of extensive walled field systems. This is a regional term specific to Dartmoor and should not be used in other parts of the country.
Search the NHLE for: REAVE - RECEIVING BLOCK — A building as part of a workhouse, prison or hospital, often including porter's lodge, baths, clothes store, washrooms, casual cells, rooms etc, for receiving inmates/patients. Use term from Components thesaurus if it is part of a building complex.
Search the NHLE for: RECEIVING BLOCK - RECEPTION CENTRE — A facility for the kitting out and induction of recruits before being sent on for training.
Search the NHLE for: RECEPTION CENTRE - RECEPTION HOUSE — A building, usually associated with, or found within the grounds of, a cemetery and used for the storage of coffins prior to burial. Reception houses were introduced as a result of concerns around the implcations for public health of C19 burial practices.
Search the NHLE for: RECEPTION HOUSE - RECORD OFFICE — A building where official archives are kept for public inspection.
Search the NHLE for: RECORD OFFICE - RECORDING STUDIO — A room or building used for the making of films, television or radio programmes and musical recordings (CDs, LPs, etc).
Search the NHLE for: RECORDING STUDIO - RECREATION CENTRE — A site available to the public for the pursuit of leisure and recreational activities.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATION CENTRE - RECREATION GROUND — A public ground with facilities for games and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATION GROUND - RECREATION HUT — A hut, usually built as part of a complex on a military base or airfield and used for the recreation of military personnel.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATION HUT - RECREATIONAL — Sites, buildings, structures, features & areas of land associated with sport, leisure & entertainment. Includes sports grounds, hunting forests, cinemas, theatres etc.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATIONAL - RECREATIONAL HALL — A hall built as part of a complex and used for the recreation of the workers or inhabitants. Usually associated with model estates, factories, flats etc.
Search the NHLE for: RECREATIONAL HALL - RECRUITING STATION — A building where civilians are enlisted to join the military forces.
Search the NHLE for: RECRUITING STATION - RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE — A rectangular shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE - RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of an area of land enclosed by a ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier, where the barrier consists of several straight or near straight sections.
Search the NHLE for: RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE - RECUMBENT STONE — A stone or boulder which lies lengthways on the ground and may be used as a table, altar etc. Use only for isolated stones.
Search the NHLE for: RECUMBENT STONE - RECUMBENT STONE CIRCLE — A stone circle featuring a stone which lies lengthways between two of the upright standing stones.
Search the NHLE for: RECUMBENT STONE CIRCLE - RECYCLING CENTRE — A central point for the deposit, collection and recycling of waste materials.
Search the NHLE for: RECYCLING CENTRE - RED HILL — Iron Age or Roman coastal site producing salt by boiling of seawater in fired clay pans, resulting in characteristic mounds of 'BRIQUETAGE' (see Archaeological Objects Thesaurus).
Search the NHLE for: RED HILL - REDOUBT — A defence work, either a detached fieldwork or an outwork built as part of a fortification as a last defensive position.
Search the NHLE for: REDOUBT - REED AND HEALD WORKS — An establishment used for the manufacture of reeds and healds, which are components of a textile loom with related functions, in that they move and control the threads, and similar wire-based construction.
Search the NHLE for: REED AND HEALD WORKS - REEL DRYING STOVE — A structure or building used in the manufacture of the explosive cordite. After the cordite had been pressed to extract moisture it was placed on racks within the stove prior to being taken to the reeling house for winding.
Search the NHLE for: REEL DRYING STOVE - REELING SHED — A building wherein silk worm cocoons are boiled to release the silk fibres.
Search the NHLE for: REELING SHED - REFECTORY — A communal dining room, especially in schools, colleges and monasteries.
Search the NHLE for: REFECTORY - REFERENCE LIBRARY — A library where books may be consulted but not taken away.
Search the NHLE for: REFERENCE LIBRARY - REFINERY — An industrial building, plant or site where crude substances, such as sugar, metal, oil etc., are purified or refined.
Search the NHLE for: REFINERY - REFLECTING POOL — A body of water placed in such a way as to reflect a building or landscape feature.
Search the NHLE for: REFLECTING POOL - REFRESHMENT PAVILION — A type of pavilion sometimes found in public parks or country house estates.
Search the NHLE for: REFRESHMENT PAVILION - REFRESHMENT ROOMS — An area within a building open to the public where light meals and drinks can be purchased and consumed.
Search the NHLE for: REFRESHMENT ROOMS - REFRIGERATED STORE — A storehouse using mechanical means of controlling temperature rather than ice or insulation.
Search the NHLE for: REFRIGERATED STORE - REFUGE BEACON — A beacon, firmly embedded on the sea floor, consisting of an iron mast, with ladder steps leading up to the refuge cage considerably above high-water mark, and capable of holding several people.
Search the NHLE for: REFUGE BEACON - REFUGEE HOUSING — Housing provided for refugees. Similar to refugee camp but with the reuse of existing buildings rather than a temporary camp.
Search the NHLE for: REFUGEE HOUSING - REFUSE DEPOT — A place where domestic refuse is collected for disposal.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE DEPOT - REFUSE DESTRUCTOR STATION — Power station using domestic refuse as its principal fuel.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE DESTRUCTOR STATION - REFUSE DISPOSAL PLANT — For the disposal of town refuse. Some 19th century plants were linked to a power station. Later ones incorporate INCINERATORS, recycling facilities, etc.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE DISPOSAL PLANT - REFUSE DISPOSAL SITE — A site where household rubbish and other waste products can be disposed of. May take the form of a pit, rubbish tip, landfill site or incineration plant.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE DISPOSAL SITE - REFUSE TRANSFER DEPOT — A depot for the transfer of town refuse to river barges before transportation to the REFUSE DEPOT.
Search the NHLE for: REFUSE TRANSFER DEPOT - REGIMENTAL DEPOT — Any military base where the depot battalion of a regiment is based. Depot battalions maintain the stores and records of a regiment and train new recruits.
Search the NHLE for: REGIMENTAL DEPOT - REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS — The main administrative building and headquarters of a regiment
Search the NHLE for: REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS - REGIMENTAL INSTITUTE — An institute provided by a regiment for the improvement of the soldiers and to reduce excessive drinking.
Search the NHLE for: REGIMENTAL INSTITUTE - REGIONAL GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS — A reinforced concrete structure, usually sited underground, from where it was intended to conduct the business of government in the event of nuclear war. Date specific from mid 1980's to early 1990's.
Search the NHLE for: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS - REGIONAL GOVERNMENT SHELTER — A reinforced concrete structure, usually sited underground, intended to be used by the regional government as an air raid shelter in the event of a nuclear attack.
Search the NHLE for: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT SHELTER - REGIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT — A reinforced concrete structure, usually sited underground, from where it was intended to conduct the business of government in the event of nuclear war. Date specific late 1950's to early 1970's.
Search the NHLE for: REGIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT - REGISTER OFFICE — An office at which the registration of marriages, births and deaths are recorded, and in which marriage ceremonies may take place.
Search the NHLE for: REGISTER OFFICE - REGISTRARS HOUSE — A house, the inhabitant of which keeps an official register e.g. a registrar's house near a cemetery would keep an official record of deaths and burials.
Search the NHLE for: REGISTRARS HOUSE - REGULAR COURTYARD E PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the buildings are arranged as an E-shaped plan around two cattle yards. Cattle housing and stabling typically extend as three ranges from the longer main range which includes a barn or mixing house.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD E PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD F PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the buildings are arranged as an F-shaped plan around two cattle yards. Cattle housing and stabling typically extend as three ranges from the longer main range which includes a barn or mixing house.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD F PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD FULL PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the buildings are arranged around all four sides of the yard.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD FULL PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD H PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the buildings are arranged as an H-shaped plan, commonly with cattle housing to two or more cattle yards.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD H PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD L PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the buildings are arranged as two linked ranges to create an L-shape. They can comprise a barn and an attached shelter shed to a cattle yard or an interlinked cattle housing and fodder range.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD L PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD MULTI YARD — A farmstead with multiple yards which are grouped together and regularly arranged (other than the defined E, F, H, T or Z plans). The yards may relate to one or more buildings or ranges which may be of either loose courtyard or regular courtyard form.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD MULTI YARD - REGULAR COURTYARD PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the working buildings are carefully planned as linked ranges and are focused around one or more working yards. They often result from a single phase of building.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD T PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the buildings are arranged as two ranges at right angles to each other.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD T PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD U PLAN — Regular courtyard farmsteads where the buildings are arranged around three sides of a yard which is open to one side.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD U PLAN - REGULAR COURTYARD Z PLAN — An uncommon form of a regular courtyard farmstead where the buildings are arranged in a Z-shaped form.
Search the NHLE for: REGULAR COURTYARD Z PLAN - REHABILITATION CENTRE — A place where people recovering from illnesses or accidents are helped to recover their physical and/or mental capabilities.
Search the NHLE for: REHABILITATION CENTRE - RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CENTRE — A building or part of a building, sometimes attached to a religious community, where religious activities such as worshipping, meetings, teaching about the faith and conferences take place. It can also provide accommodation.
Search the NHLE for: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CENTRE - RELIGIOUS HOUSE — Use only for a monastic house of unknown status, religious order and uncertain authenticity.
Search the NHLE for: RELIGIOUS HOUSE - RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY — Sites, buildings, structures & features related to the practice of rituals & religious beliefs, including funerary rites. Includes ancillary buildings, structures & features of uncertain use, which are thought to be ‘ritual’ (eg. hill figures).
Search the NHLE for: RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY - REMOUNT DEPOT — A military depot where horses were taken and trained for service in the army.
Search the NHLE for: REMOUNT DEPOT - Renewable Energy Park — An area of land used for producing renewable energy, which can comprise a solar farm, wind turbines or biomass facility
Search the NHLE for: Renewable Energy Park - REPOSITORY — A room or building used as a store, usually for documents, works of art, books etc.
Search the NHLE for: REPOSITORY - REPTILE HOUSE — A building where reptiles are accommodated at a zoo or wildlife park.
Search the NHLE for: REPTILE HOUSE - REQUISITIONED BUILDING — A building which has been temporarily taken over for use by the military or civilian authorities. During wartime buildings were requisitioned for various purposes, such as temporary hospitals or headquarters.
Search the NHLE for: REQUISITIONED BUILDING - REQUISITIONED LAND — Land which has been temporarily taken over for use by the military or civilian authorities. During wartime land was requisitioned for various purposes, such as for argriculture or for military training/events etc.
Search the NHLE for: REQUISITIONED LAND - RESCUE CENTRE — A place from where rescue missions are co-ordinated and casualties treated after an accident, offensive action or disaster.
Search the NHLE for: RESCUE CENTRE - RESEARCH INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society instituted to promote research.
Search the NHLE for: RESEARCH INSTITUTE - RESEARCH STATION — A building, group of buildings or installation in which scientific experiments are carried out.
Search the NHLE for: RESEARCH STATION - RESERVOIR — A large natural or artificial body of water, sometimes covered, used to collect and store water for a particular function, eg. industrial or public use.
Search the NHLE for: RESERVOIR - RESERVOIR INSPECTION CHAMBER — A chamber built into the side of a covered reservoir to enable the water level to be inspected.
Search the NHLE for: RESERVOIR INSPECTION CHAMBER - RESETTLEMENT CAMP — A camp for the temporary accommodation of uprooted civilians or foreign ex-service personnel, who had fought for the British forces during WWII (e.g.Polish).
Search the NHLE for: RESETTLEMENT CAMP - RESIDENTIAL BUILDING — Buildings used as non-permanent homes.
Search the NHLE for: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING - RESORT VILLAGE — Model village built as a holiday resort.
Search the NHLE for: RESORT VILLAGE - RESTAURANT — A place where refreshments or meals may be obtained.
Search the NHLE for: RESTAURANT - RETAIL PARK — A grouping of retail warehouses and supermarkets with associated car parking.
Search the NHLE for: RETAIL PARK - RETAINING WALL — A wall constructed for the purpose of confining or supporting a mass of earth or water.
Search the NHLE for: RETAINING WALL - RETENTURA — The rear part of a Roman fort, where barrack accommodation, stables and stores were situated. Use with wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: RETENTURA - RETIREMENT HOME — Residence for retired people, often in the form of an apartment complex, differing from a nursing home as the residents live independently.
Search the NHLE for: RETIREMENT HOME - RETORT HOUSE — Central functional building of a gas works. Coal is roasted in retorts producing gas and coke.
Search the NHLE for: RETORT HOUSE - RETREAT — A house or centre used for meditation, contemplation and/or prayer.
Search the NHLE for: RETREAT - RETTING POND — A pit used for the prolonged steeping of the flax plant in water to separate the fibres from the wood.
Search the NHLE for: RETTING POND - REVERBERATORY CALCINER — A calciner dating from the early 17th to early 20th centuries, usually made of brick and without moving parts, consisting of a reverberatory furnace, and used for the extraction of arsenic.
Search the NHLE for: REVERBERATORY CALCINER - REVERBERATORY FURNACE — A furnace in which the flame is turned back over the substance to be heated.
Search the NHLE for: REVERBERATORY FURNACE - REVETMENT — A wall or masonry construction built for the purpose of retaining or supporting a bank of earth, wall, rampart etc.
Search the NHLE for: REVETMENT - REVOLVING SHELTER — Small revolving wooden chalets that could be turned with their backs to the prevailing wind so that hospital patients could recline in them on long chairs in all weathers.
Search the NHLE for: REVOLVING SHELTER - RFC SIDE OPENING AIRCRAFT HANGAR — The earliest side-opening standard type of aircraft hangar designed in 1913 and used in WWI. Originally constructed from wooden trusses and struts, one example has steel frames. It comprised a single or coupled shed with rear workshops.
Search the NHLE for: RFC SIDE OPENING AIRCRAFT HANGAR - RHINOCEROS HOUSE — A building, or group of buildings, deliberately designed for rhinos.
Search the NHLE for: RHINOCEROS HOUSE - RHYTHM AND BLUES CLUB — A club where predominantly rhythm and blues style music is played, analagous to a jazz club.
Search the NHLE for: RHYTHM AND BLUES CLUB - RIBBON FACTORY — A factory where ribbons are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: RIBBON FACTORY - RICE MILL — A mill for the processing of rice for use in food products.
Search the NHLE for: RICE MILL - RIDE — A road or way for riding on horseback within a park or estate.
Search the NHLE for: RIDE - RIDGE AND FURROW — A series of long, raised ridges separated by ditches used to prepare the ground for arable cultivation. This was a technique, characteristic of the medieval period.
Search the NHLE for: RIDGE AND FURROW - RIDGEWAY — A road or way along a ridge of downs or low range of hills.
Search the NHLE for: RIDGEWAY - RIDING SCHOOL — A school for instruction in the art of horsemanship.
Search the NHLE for: RIDING SCHOOL - RIFLE BUTTS — A target range used for rifle and small arms practice and recreational purposes.
Search the NHLE for: RIFLE BUTTS - RIFLE PIT — A pit dug to protect a small group of infantry men.
Search the NHLE for: RIFLE PIT - RIGGING HOUSE — A workshop with equipment for the making and repair of ships' rigging.
Search the NHLE for: RIGGING HOUSE - RING BANK — Circular enclosure featuring an enclosing bank with no accompanying ditch. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: RING BANK - RING BARROW — A circular bank surrounding an area where burials were placed.
Search the NHLE for: RING BARROW - RING CAIRN — A low, wide, circular ring or bank of stones surrounding an open, roughly circular area which is (or was initially) free of cairn material. The inner and outer faces of the bank may be kerbed.
Search the NHLE for: RING CAIRN - RING DITCH — Circular or near circular ditches, usually seen as cropmarks. Use the term where the function is unknown. Ring ditches may be the remains of ploughed out round barrows, round houses, or of modern features such as searchlight emplacements.
Search the NHLE for: RING DITCH - RING ENCLOSURE — A small circular enclosure defined by a turf or earthern bank.
Search the NHLE for: RING ENCLOSURE - RINGWORK — A defensive bank and ditch, circular or oval in plan, surrounding one or more buildings.
Search the NHLE for: RINGWORK - RINGWORK AND BAILEY — An enclosure within a bailey which contained a keep and sometimes took the place of a motte.
Search the NHLE for: RINGWORK AND BAILEY - RITUAL PIT — A pit which appears to have been dug for, or which contains, objects apparently deposited for reasons other than storage, disposal or extraction. Index with principal object types.
Search the NHLE for: RITUAL PIT - RITUAL SHAFT — A shaft which appears to have been dug for, or which contains objects apparently deposited for, reasons other than storage, disposal or extraction (eg. of stone, water, etc). Index with principal object types.
Search the NHLE for: RITUAL SHAFT - RIVER DEFENCE SITE — A fortified river or river bank forming part of the anti invasion infrastructure.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER DEFENCE SITE - RIVER DEFENCES — Manmade constructions used to prevent rivers breaking their banks and flooding the surrounding area with water. Often taking the form of a bank or wall.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER DEFENCES - RIVER DOCK — An artificial area of open water, situated on a river, enclosed by masonry and fitted with dock gates in which ships can be repaired, loaded/unloaded or berthed.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER DOCK - RIVER GATE — A gate, made of wood, used as a livestock barrier by continuing a fence line across a river or stream. The gate usually consists of a series of droppers, that can float up and down depending on water levels, attached to a length of cable or wooden pole.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER GATE - RIVER INTAKE — A dam and sluice combination, associated with an aqueduct, for the extraction of water from a river to feed a reservoir or water treatment plant.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER INTAKE - RIVER INTAKE GAUGE — A balance engine used to replenish the water levels of a river by transferring water from a reservoir or other supply.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER INTAKE GAUGE - RIVER LOCK — A section of the water channel of a river, shut off above and below by lock gates provided with sluices to let water in and out and thus raise or lower boats from one level to another. Often found situated next to a weir.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER LOCK - RIVER NAVIGATION — A river canalized for shipping.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER NAVIGATION - RIVER PORT — A port situated on a river, often associated with a town or overland goods transport facilities.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER PORT - RIVER WHARF — A large wooden structure built alongside the edge of a river where boats may lie for the loading and unloading of goods and passengers.
Search the NHLE for: RIVER WHARF - ROAD — A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD - ROAD BRIDGE — A bridge carrying a road over land or water.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD BRIDGE - ROAD JUNCTION — A place where two or more roads meet.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD JUNCTION - ROAD SIGN — A sign, often mounted on a post next to a roadside, giving directions or other instructions.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD SIGN - ROAD TRANSPORT DEPOT — A place where goods and merchandise are temporarily stored before being transported to or from somewhere by road.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD TRANSPORT DEPOT - ROAD TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with road transport.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD TRANSPORT SITE - ROAD TUNNEL — A tunnel running under a river or through a hill along which vehicles may travel.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD TUNNEL - ROAD TUNNEL PORTAL — The entrance to a road tunnel, sometimes of a grand construction.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD TUNNEL PORTAL - ROAD VIADUCT — A bridge, usually resting on raised arches, carrying a road across low-lying land or water.
Search the NHLE for: ROAD VIADUCT - ROADBLOCK — A combination of obstructions, used either to stop enemy forces or force them off the road.
Search the NHLE for: ROADBLOCK - ROADSIDE LIGHTHOUSE — A lighted pillar or LIGHTHOUSE, eg. Dunston Pillar, Lincs., erected in 1751 to guide travellers over the heath.
Search the NHLE for: ROADSIDE LIGHTHOUSE - ROADWAY — The central part of a road between the pavements or the verges.
Search the NHLE for: ROADWAY - ROASTING HEARTH — A hearth for roasting metallic ore, usually non ferrous, before smelting.
Search the NHLE for: ROASTING HEARTH - ROBBER TRENCH — Use broader site type where known
Search the NHLE for: ROBBER TRENCH - ROBIN AIRCRAFT HANGAR — A small dispersal WWII military aircraft hangar featuring an "A" shaped steel frame clad with corrugated iron; end doors were supported by outriggers when open.Typically used on aircraft storage units or satellite landing grounds. Variations in size.
Search the NHLE for: ROBIN AIRCRAFT HANGAR - ROCK ART — Refers to art, whether carving or painting, applied to free -standing stones or cave walls.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK ART - ROCK BRIDGE — A bridge constructed using rockwork to create a craggy, naturalistic appearance. A feature of 18th century rococo gardens and parks.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK BRIDGE - ROCK CARVING — A decorative design or illustration, often an anthropomorphic or geometrical image, carved into a stone surface, such as a cave wall or free-standing stone. Usually, though not always, of Prehistoric date.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CARVING - ROCK CUT CHAMBER — A manmade chamber cut into a rockface.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CUT CHAMBER - ROCK CUT DWELLING — A dwelling cut into the rockface of a cliff or hillside, often with a built frontage. Many date from the Medieval period and are still in use in some areas of the country.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CUT DWELLING - ROCK CUT GRAVE — A grave which has been formed by cutting into the bedrock of a site.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK CUT GRAVE - ROCK GARDEN — A garden consisting primarily of rocks and rock plants.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK GARDEN - ROCK PAINTING — Art applied in pigment to rock wether in the form of a free-standing stone or the walls of a cave.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK PAINTING - ROCK SHELTER — The area beneath a natural overhang at the base of a cliff or crag. This may have been used for occupation, burial, etc. Index with site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ROCK SHELTER - ROCKERY — A pile of rough stones and soil used for the growing of ferns and other plants.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKERY - ROCKET — A missile or aircraft that obtain its thrust from a rocket engine. Some rockets will exist as monuments for example, in the form of gate guardians. Double index with the monument type where appropriate.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET - ROCKET HOUSE — A building specifically built to house life saving apparatus used when conditions prevented the lifeboat from deploying.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET HOUSE - ROCKET MOTOR FACTORY — A factory for the manufacture of rocket motors, both for civil and military use.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET MOTOR FACTORY - ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY — Unspecified Second World War anti-aircraft battery. There were three types of battery. The U2P and U20P had different arrangements of DFW55373 projector sites for the 20-barrelled 3" projectors. The U9P mounted 12-barrelled projectors.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY - ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE 55373) — Rocket projector site with a circular or octagonal concrete holdfast, 1.5m across, surrounded by a 4.6m radius octagonal concrete surround. Six such rocket projectors were arranged in a 3 x 2 grid. Personnel shelters placed midway between each site.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE 55373) - ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE U20P) — 6 Type DFW 55373s placed in a 3X2 rectangular plan. Each projector was separated by 31-34m. Hardened personnel and ammunition shelters located midway between each projector, but ammunition stored outside the perimeter.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE U20P) - ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE U2P) — 64 Type DFW55373 projector sites arranged in and 8x8 grid or in 4 groups of 16. 30m between each projector, with hardened personnel and ammunition shelters located midway between each
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE U2P) - ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE U9P) — 6 DFW55373 projector emplacements spaced in a 3x2 rectangular gid, but each spaced 35m apart. No blast protection was provided at the shelters, which were placed between the projector emplacements.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE U9P) - ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE UP) — 64 Type DFW55373 single projector sites arranged in an 8x8 grid or in 4 groups of 16. 30m between each projector, with hardened personnel and ammunition shelters located midway between each
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET PROJECTOR BATTERY (TYPE UP) - ROCKET TEST FACILITY — An area for the testing of rockets and guided missiles. Includes all structures associated with both the firing and testing of rockets and missiles.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKET TEST FACILITY - ROCKWORK — An area of either natural or artificial stone arranged to resemble a rocky outcrop or cliff face within animal cages/enclosures of a Zoo.
Search the NHLE for: ROCKWORK - ROCOCO GARDEN — Garden comprising rockwork features including grottoes, cascades and arches, often in different architectural styles ie. Gothic, Chinese and rustic. In use from the mid C18.
Search the NHLE for: ROCOCO GARDEN - ROLLER COASTER — A type of fairground or seaside amusement, often a permanent structure, where carriages travel at high speeds on an undulating track raised some distance from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: ROLLER COASTER - ROLLER MILL — A grain grinding mill in which the meal is ground into flour between revolving metal rolls.
Search the NHLE for: ROLLER MILL - ROLLING MILL — A mill in which sets of rollers were used to roll metal to set thicknesses or shapes such as rails, beams or rods.
Search the NHLE for: ROLLING MILL - ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL — The principal Roman Catholic church in a diocese in which the cathedra or bishop's throne is to be found.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL - ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY — A burial ground for Roman Catholics.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY - ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL — A chapel where Roman Catholics worship.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL - ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — A place of worship for Roman Catholics.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - ROMAN CATHOLIC NUNNERY — A house of Roman Catholic nuns or canonesses.
Search the NHLE for: ROMAN CATHOLIC NUNNERY - ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the national church of Romania.
Search the NHLE for: ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH - ROMANY GYPSY SCHOOL — Boarding school for children of Travellers and Romany Gypsies while their parents were away on agricultural work
Search the NHLE for: ROMANY GYPSY SCHOOL - ROMNEY HUT — A prefabricated structure of a steel frame clad in corrugated iron. Semi-circular in section they were used for storage and as workshops, cinemas etc during WWII. Designed at Romney House, London by the Directorate of Fortifications & Works.
Search the NHLE for: ROMNEY HUT - ROND POINT — An open circular area where avenues converge.
Search the NHLE for: ROND POINT - ROOF GARDEN — A garden or collection of potted plants on the flat roof of a house or other building.
Search the NHLE for: ROOF GARDEN - ROOF TOP CAR PARK — A car park on the roof of a building.
Search the NHLE for: ROOF TOP CAR PARK - ROOM AND POWER MILL — A type of textile mill found in Lancashire in the 19th century. Small businesses paid the owner rent for space for their machines, and power from the mill engine or waterwheel.
Search the NHLE for: ROOM AND POWER MILL - ROOT HOUSE — A picturesque garden building decorated with tree roots, often serving as a HERMITAGE or ARBOUR.
Search the NHLE for: ROOT HOUSE - ROOT ROOM — Room, usually part of another building, for storing and preparing roots and other animal feed.
Search the NHLE for: ROOT ROOM - ROPE MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings and structures associated with the manufacture of rope.
Search the NHLE for: ROPE MANUFACTURING SITE - ROPERY — A place where ropes are made.
Search the NHLE for: ROPERY - ROPEWALK — A very long, narrow, roofed building, often two-storeyed, used for the manufacture of rope. Often attached to warehousing, an engine house or offices. Can be included within the complex of a textile mill.
Search the NHLE for: ROPEWALK - ROSE BORDER — A long bed containing rose plants.
Search the NHLE for: ROSE BORDER - ROSE GARDEN — A garden, often geometrical in layout, or area for the cultivation of roses.
Search the NHLE for: ROSE GARDEN - ROSTRAL COLUMN — A column set on a pedestal and decorated with the bows of warships to celebrate naval victories. Originally a Roman form, it was revived in 17th and 18th century decoration.
Search the NHLE for: ROSTRAL COLUMN - ROSTRUM — A raised platform or stage for public speaking or conducting an orchestra. Also a platform for supporting cameras during filming.
Search the NHLE for: ROSTRUM - ROTARY KILN — A kiln in which stone is burnt as it falls through a heated and slightly inclined steel tube.
Search the NHLE for: ROTARY KILN - ROTATIVE BEAM ENGINE — An engine in which the oscillating motion of the beam is translated via gearing to a rotative motion.
Search the NHLE for: ROTATIVE BEAM ENGINE - ROTOR TEST TOWER — A purpose built tower used for the testing of helicopter rotor blades.
Search the NHLE for: ROTOR TEST TOWER - ROTUNDA — An isolated building, circular in plan, generally consisting of one apartment with a domed roof, eg. Mausoleum at Castle Howard, Yorkshire.
Search the NHLE for: ROTUNDA - ROUND — A small, Iron Age/Romano-British enclosed settlement found in South West England.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND - ROUND BARROW — Hemispherical mound surrounded by a ditch (or occasionally two or more concentric ditches), often accompanied by an external (or occasionally internal) bank. Mound and ditch may sometimes be separated by a berm. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND BARROW - ROUND CAIRN — A roughly hemispherical mound constructed primarily of stones, normally containing or covering one or more human burials. The mound may be surrounded and partly retained by a low stone kerb.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND CAIRN - ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) — Circular structure, normally indicated by one or more rings of post holes and/or a circular gulley, and usually interpreted as being of domestic function.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) - ROUND TOWERED CHURCH — A church, usually found in East Anglia, of early Medieval and/or Medieval date with attached or detached round tower.
Search the NHLE for: ROUND TOWERED CHURCH - ROUNDABOUT — A circular construction at the intersection of two or more roads to aid the passage of vehicles from one road to another.
Search the NHLE for: ROUNDABOUT - ROUNDHOUSE (RAILWAY) — A circular building for housing and repairing railway locomotives.
Search the NHLE for: ROUNDHOUSE (RAILWAY) - ROVING BRIDGE — A bridge which takes the towpath across the canal.
Search the NHLE for: ROVING BRIDGE - ROW — A row of buildings built during different periods, as opposed to a TERRACE.
Search the NHLE for: ROW - ROW HOUSE — A terrace house sharing a common wall with its neighbours.
Search the NHLE for: ROW HOUSE - ROW PLAN — A farmstead where the main range of working buildings are attached in-line and form a long row often facing a series of yards.
Search the NHLE for: ROW PLAN - ROWING CLUB — A building used as a social venue by people interested in, and involved with, the sport of rowing. An area of the building may be used for the storage of canoes, sculls etc. Often situated by a river.
Search the NHLE for: ROWING CLUB - ROYAL AIR FORCE BASE — A site, usually with an airfield, hangars and control buildings, used for the storage and deployment of military aircraft or the administration of the Royal Air Force. May also include accommodation buildings for personnel.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL AIR FORCE BASE - ROYAL AIR FORCE CAMP — A site with accommodation buildings and ancillary facilities for Royal Air Force personnel.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL AIR FORCE CAMP - ROYAL AIR FORCE HOSPITAL — A hospital where Air Force personnel and their families receive medical and surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL AIR FORCE HOSPITAL - ROYAL CHAPEL — A private chapel for a royal court.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL CHAPEL - ROYAL FLYING CORPS AIRCRAFT HANGAR — The earliest side-opening standard type of aircraft hangar designed in 1913 and used in WWI. Originally constructed from wooden trusses and struts, some examples have steel frames. It comprised a single or coupled shed with rear workshops.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL FLYING CORPS AIRCRAFT HANGAR - ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION — An airfield with associated hangars and control buildings used for the storage, maintenance and deployment of military aircraft and airships flown by the Royal Naval Air Service.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION - ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION CONTROL TOWER — A control tower constructed on RNAS stations by the Royal Marine Engineers. Built to a common ground floor plan they could be built with one, two or three storeys above this depending on the requirements of the station.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION CONTROL TOWER - ROYAL NAVAL BASE — A site, usually with docks and control buildings, used for the storage, maintenance and deployment of military vessels or the administration of the Royal Navy. May also include accommodation buildings for personnel.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL NAVAL BASE - ROYAL NAVAL DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage and distribution of the essential logistical requirements of the Royal Navy.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL NAVAL DEPOT - ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL — A hospital where Royal Naval personnel and their families receive medical and surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL - ROYAL NAVY SHORE ESTABLISHMENT — A complex of buildings used as a headquarters and training base for Royal Navy personnel. Even though they are buildings on land shore establishments are deemed to be shipsand are designated 'HMS' eg. HMS Dolphin in Portsmouth.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL NAVY SHORE ESTABLISHMENT - ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS COMMAND CENTRE — A command centre used to co-ordinate information received from Royal Observer Corps observation and monitoring posts.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS COMMAND CENTRE - ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS HEADQUARTERS — A building used by the Royal Observer Corps as a headquarters and reporting centre. It may also fulfil an observation and nuclear fallout monitoring role. Use term to describe headquarters for plotting and monitoring nuclear fallout.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS HEADQUARTERS - ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITE — A site or structure associated with the activities of the Royal Observer Corps. The Corps was reformed on 1 January 1947 and disbanded in 1991.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITE - ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY — A factory used for the manufacture of ordnance including small arms, ammunition, artillery pieces and armoured fighting vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORY - ROYAL PALACE — A large, luxuriously appointed building used as an official residence by a member of royalty.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL PALACE - ROYAL PARK — Originally a large tract of wooded country, owned by the Monarchy, for the purpose of hunting. The royal parks of London, eg. Greenwich, are all open to the public and have been for centuries.
Search the NHLE for: ROYAL PARK - RUBBER WORKS — A factory for processing rubber or manufacturing rubber goods, such as tyres.
Search the NHLE for: RUBBER WORKS - RUBBING STONE — A large stone used by cattle to rub up against and so scratch themselves.
Search the NHLE for: RUBBING STONE - RUBBISH PIT — A pit where domestic waste material is deposited.
Search the NHLE for: RUBBISH PIT - RUCK MACHINE GUN POST — A machine gun post designed by James Ruck constructed from hollow blocks and prefabricated concrete sheeting with loopholes allowing for a garrison of eight.
Search the NHLE for: RUCK MACHINE GUN POST - RUGBY FOOTBALL GROUND — A site including a pitch, stands and other ancillary buildings associated with the game of rugby.
Search the NHLE for: RUGBY FOOTBALL GROUND - RUGBY PITCH — A prepared area of grass on which the game of rugby is played.
Search the NHLE for: RUGBY PITCH - RUM WAREHOUSE — A type of warehouse found in naval victualling yards, used for the storage of rum, a ration of which was given on a daily basis to members of the Royal Navy, up until the 1980s, when this practice ceased.
Search the NHLE for: RUM WAREHOUSE - RUNE STONE — A stone on which Runes have been inscribed. Often used as memorials though not always associated with a burial.
Search the NHLE for: RUNE STONE - RUNWAY — A hard level roadway or other surface from which aircraft take off and land.
Search the NHLE for: RUNWAY - RUNWAY LIGHTING — A system of lights to aid aircraft when landing at night. When viewed from above the runway lights form an outline of the runway.
Search the NHLE for: RUNWAY LIGHTING - RUSSIAN BATHS — A building housing a Russian-style steam bath or banya.
Search the NHLE for: RUSSIAN BATHS - RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the Russian Orthodox Church, the national church of Russia.
Search the NHLE for: RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH - RUTWAY — A track of two parallel ruts deliberately cut in the ground or living rock for the guidance of two-wheeled carts when the way was obscured by darkness or water.
Search the NHLE for: RUTWAY
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- SABULITE FACTORY — A factory or works principally engaged in the manufacture of the mining explosive sabulite.
Search the NHLE for: SABULITE FACTORY - SACRISTY — A place for keeping vestments and sacred vessels.
Search the NHLE for: SACRISTY - SADDLERY — A house for storing or drying saddles.
Search the NHLE for: SADDLERY - SAFE FACTORY — A factory where security safes are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SAFE FACTORY - SAFETY FUSE FACTORY — Factory for the production of safety fuses used in the ignition of gunpowder for blasting.
Search the NHLE for: SAFETY FUSE FACTORY - SAFETY RAMP — Emergency deceleration lane.
Search the NHLE for: SAFETY RAMP - SAGGAR MAKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop in which saggars - fire clay boxes to protect ware from direct action of flame and gases during firing - were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SAGGAR MAKERS WORKSHOP - SAIL LOFT — A place where sails are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SAIL LOFT - SAILING CLUB — A building used as a social venue by people interested in, and involved with, the sport of sailing. Often situated by a MARINA.
Search the NHLE for: SAILING CLUB - SAILMAKING WORKS — A building or site where boat sails are manufactured from processed cloth.
Search the NHLE for: SAILMAKING WORKS - SALT BATHS — A building where people could bathe in salt water. Salt water was believed to have medicinal properties.
Search the NHLE for: SALT BATHS - SALT CHUTE — A chute for conveying salt.
Search the NHLE for: SALT CHUTE - SALT MINE — A mine yielding rock salt.
Search the NHLE for: SALT MINE - SALT PAN — A boiling vessel used in the direct boiling process, or the sleeching process, used for the manufacture of salt. For evaporating features associated with SOLAR and PARTIAL SOLAR sites use SALT POND.
Search the NHLE for: SALT PAN - SALT POND — A shallow pond containing salt water and used for the manufacture of salt through the evaporation process. For metal vessels associated with the DIRECT BOILING and SLEECHING SALT WORKS use SALT PAN.
Search the NHLE for: SALT POND - SALT PRODUCTION SITE — Sites, buildings or stuctures associated with the entire process of salt production.
Search the NHLE for: SALT PRODUCTION SITE - SALT REFINERY — A coastal site producing salt by dissolving rocksalt or other impure salt in seawater, then boiling the concentrated brine in a PANHOUSE
Search the NHLE for: SALT REFINERY - SALT STORE — Buildings incorporating a high degree of protection against damp for the bulk storage of salt.
Search the NHLE for: SALT STORE - SALT WORKS — A site, building or factory used for the production of salt.
Search the NHLE for: SALT WORKS - SALTCOTE — A hut, usually containing lead pans, in which salt water is boiled to produce salt.
Search the NHLE for: SALTCOTE - SALTERN — A site, in which salt is obtained by boiling and evaporating salt brine or seawater in large pans. Often the only surviving evidence are the mounds formed from the waste produced by the process.
Search the NHLE for: SALTERN - SALTING HOUSE — A room or building used for curing fish or meat.
Search the NHLE for: SALTING HOUSE - SALTPETRE STORE — A place where saltpetre, the chief component of gunpowder, is kept.
Search the NHLE for: SALTPETRE STORE - SALTPETRE WORKS — A building, factory or works which was engaged in the manufacture of refining saltpetre. Often part of a gunpowder works.
Search the NHLE for: SALTPETRE WORKS - SALUTING BATTERY — A battery equipped and ready to fire salutes
Search the NHLE for: SALUTING BATTERY - SALVATION ARMY HALL — A place of worship and meeting hall for members of the Salvation Army, an evangelical sect founded by William Booth in Nottingham in 1865 and derived from Wesleyan Methodism. They rejected the sacraments and adopted a quasi-military rhetoric and style.
Search the NHLE for: SALVATION ARMY HALL - SANATORIUM — A hospital for convalescents or consumptives.
Search the NHLE for: SANATORIUM - SANCTUARY — A sacred area of a building or a consecrated piece of land.
Search the NHLE for: SANCTUARY - SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION SITE — A site associated with the extraction, from the ground, of sand and gravel. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SAND AND GRAVEL EXTRACTION SITE - SAND PAPER MILL — A mill for producing abravive papers and cloths such as glass paper or emery cloth.
Search the NHLE for: SAND PAPER MILL - SAND PIT — A pit from which sand is excavated.
Search the NHLE for: SAND PIT - SAND WORKINGS — A place where sand is extracted from surface workings.
Search the NHLE for: SAND WORKINGS - SANDEMANIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Sandemanians, a movement founded by John Glass after his expulsion from the Church of Scotland in 1728. It was spread to England by his son-in-law, Robert Sandeman.
Search the NHLE for: SANDEMANIAN CHAPEL - SANDSTONE QUARRY — A place where sandstone is excavated.
Search the NHLE for: SANDSTONE QUARRY - SAP — A covered trench, often in a zig zag form, made for the purpose of approaching a beseiged place under fire of the garrison.
Search the NHLE for: SAP - SARCOPHAGUS — A stone coffin embellished with sculpture.
Search the NHLE for: SARCOPHAGUS - SARSEN PIT — A pit dug to extract Sarsen stones from the superficial geology in which they occur. They range in size from one dug for the extraction of a single boulder to pits from which multiple boulders are extracted & date from the Neolitic to the mid 20th century
Search the NHLE for: SARSEN PIT - SATELLITE DISH — A structure consisting of a large, metal framework holding a skyward facing dish. Used for transmitting and receiving signals which are relayed by satellite.
Search the NHLE for: SATELLITE DISH - SATELLITE EARTH STATION — A group of buildings and satellite dishes used to transmit and receive signals relayed by satellites.
Search the NHLE for: SATELLITE EARTH STATION - SAUCER BARROW — A round barrow featuring a low, wide mound surrounded by a ditch which may be accompanied by an external bank.
Search the NHLE for: SAUCER BARROW - SAUNA — A building housing a Finnish-style steam bath.
Search the NHLE for: SAUNA - SAVIGNIAC CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Savigniac order dependent on a foreign mother house. The order was originally founded by monks in Savigny, Normandy, in 1105 and first established in Britain in 1123 at Tulket, Preston.
Search the NHLE for: SAVIGNIAC CELL - SAVIGNIAC MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of Savigniac monks. Order merged with Cistercians c1147.
Search the NHLE for: SAVIGNIAC MONASTERY - SAVINGS BANK — A bank which specializes in accepting savings deposits. Originally established to help the poor.
Search the NHLE for: SAVINGS BANK - SAW MILL — A factory in which logs are converted to timber by running them through a series of saws.
Search the NHLE for: SAW MILL - SAW PIT — A place where tree trunks were sawn into planks by hand.
Search the NHLE for: SAW PIT - SAXON SHORE FORT — Roman coastal forts fortified with large walls and a ditch, introduced to cope with raids from across the English Channel and North Sea.
Search the NHLE for: SAXON SHORE FORT - SCAFFOLD — An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
Search the NHLE for: SCAFFOLD - SCARP — A steep bank or slope. In fortifications, the bank or wall immediately in front of and below the rampart.
Search the NHLE for: SCARP - SCAVELLMANS CABIN — A building used by labourers who clean and pump the docks, and in general, assist shipwrights.
Search the NHLE for: SCAVELLMANS CABIN - SCHOOL — An establishment in which people, usually children, are taught.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL - SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE — A building, usually within the grounds of a school and often containing dormitories, used by pupils who board.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL BOARDING HOUSE - SCHOOL CLINIC — A place at a school where children receive medical advice, health checks and treatment.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL CLINIC - SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — A specialist school for the teaching of blind people.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND - SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — A specialist school for the teaching of deaf people.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF - SCHOOL HALL — A large room or building at a school used for assembly and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL HALL - SCHOOL HOUSE — A building appropriated by a school for the purpose of teaching pupils.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOL HOUSE - SCHOOLROOM — A room in a school devoted to the formal instruction of pupils.
Search the NHLE for: SCHOOLROOM - SCIENCE PARK — An area including buildings dedicated to scientific research for commercial purposes. Often associated with, or operated by, a university or higher education institution.
Search the NHLE for: SCIENCE PARK - SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society instituted to promote science through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE - SCONCE — A small protective fortification, such as an earthwork.
Search the NHLE for: SCONCE - SCOOP WHEEL — A wheel driven by wind or steam for the lifting of water.
Search the NHLE for: SCOOP WHEEL - SCOOPED SETTLEMENT — A settlement, usually enclosed, on a sloping hillside containing a number of oval or circular scopped house floors separated by walls or unexcavated ridges.
Search the NHLE for: SCOOPED SETTLEMENT - SCOREBOARD — A large board found at sporting events, erected so as to be seen by the spectators, on which the score of a game is kept.
Search the NHLE for: SCOREBOARD - SCOTCH KILN — A type of updraught intermittent kiln of rectangular plan and battered sides, but with an open top.
Search the NHLE for: SCOTCH KILN - SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Church of Scotland which has been Presbyterian since 1690. It is the national Church of Scotland and is free and endowed.
Search the NHLE for: SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL - SCOUT HUT — A building used for meetings and other events by Scouts Associations.
Search the NHLE for: SCOUT HUT - SCOWLE — An old opencast iron ore site, which has been abandoned.
Search the NHLE for: SCOWLE - SCRAP YARD — A place where scrap metal is collected.
Search the NHLE for: SCRAP YARD - SCRATCH DIAL — A set of marks found on the wall of a building, thought to be a form of sundial.
Search the NHLE for: SCRATCH DIAL - SCREENING PLANT — A type of coal preparation plant for the sizing, sorting and washing of coal.
Search the NHLE for: SCREENING PLANT - SCREENS HOUSE — A building housing filters for sewage. Usually associated with a sewage pumping station.
Search the NHLE for: SCREENS HOUSE - SCREW MILL — A factory used for the manufacture of screws.
Search the NHLE for: SCREW MILL - SCRIBBLING MILL — A mill used for the preparation of raw fleece etc, for spinning by a coarse form of carding.
Search the NHLE for: SCRIBBLING MILL - SCRUBBER — A device used to remove pollutants from gas or smoke produced during industrial processes such as burning high-sulphur fuels.
Search the NHLE for: SCRUBBER - SCULPTURE — A figurative or abstract design in the round or in relief, made by chiselling stone, carving wood, modelling clay, casting metal, or similar processes.
Search the NHLE for: SCULPTURE - SCULPTURE GARDEN — A garden designed to display sculpture, publicly or privately.
Search the NHLE for: SCULPTURE GARDEN - SCUTCHING MILL — A mill for the removal by mechanical means of the dried wood and seeds of the flax and cotton plants after retting. The resulting 'tow' is then spun into linen and cotton respectively.
Search the NHLE for: SCUTCHING MILL - SCYTHE MILL — A factory used for the manufacture of scythes.
Search the NHLE for: SCYTHE MILL - SEA BATHING HOSPITAL — A hospital where patients would bathe daily in the sea or in indoor salt-water swimming baths.
Search the NHLE for: SEA BATHING HOSPITAL - SEA BEACON — A mark erected on or near danger or on shore as an aid to pilotage.
Search the NHLE for: SEA BEACON - SEA DEFENCES — Non-military maritime flood and erosion defences.
Search the NHLE for: SEA DEFENCES - SEA FORT — A defensive construction situated in the sea, designed to protect the land from seabourne attack. The term applies mainly to those monuments built from around 1860 onwards.
Search the NHLE for: SEA FORT - SEA LION POOL — A pool of water and associated ancillary buildings designed to accommodate sea lions.
Search the NHLE for: SEA LION POOL - SEA LOCK — An entrance chamber from tide water to basin, with gates at each end and means of pumping up or lowering the level of water to suit.
Search the NHLE for: SEA LOCK - SEA MARK — A conspicuous object, such as a beacon, used by mariners to aid navigation at sea.
Search the NHLE for: SEA MARK - SEA TERMINAL — A port, dock or harbour where ferries, hovercraft, ocean liners and cargo vessels can load and unload. May include road and/or rail terminals for transportation to the port.
Search the NHLE for: SEA TERMINAL - SEAGULL TRENCH — A trench in the form of a flattened 'W' with a flat concrete roof covered in turf, supported on concrete pillars. The name derives from the resemblance to a child's drawing of a seagull in flight.
Search the NHLE for: SEAGULL TRENCH - SEAMENS CHURCH — A place of worship specifically for mariners and their families.
Search the NHLE for: SEAMENS CHURCH - SEAMENS HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of sailors and/or their families. For Royal Naval seamen use ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL.
Search the NHLE for: SEAMENS HOSPITAL - SEAMENS MISSION — A building, usually associated with a port or dock, where seamen could get a meal and a cheap room. Often established by religious groups for the moral betterment of seamen.
Search the NHLE for: SEAMENS MISSION - SEAPLANE BASE — A building complex with hangars and slipways built adjacent to a body of water where seaplanes can be stored and maintained.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE BASE - SEAPLANE FACTORY — A factory where seaplanes are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE FACTORY - SEAPLANE MOORING — Moorings for a seaplane not part of a seaplane base.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE MOORING - SEAPLANE SHED — An aircraft hangar designed to house seaplanes.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED - SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE F) — A military side-opening aircraft hangar originally designed for seaplanes and used RNAS bases from 1916. Steel framed with asbestos or corrugated iron cladding.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE F) - SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE G) — A side-opening steel framed shed. A smaller version of the SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE F) they were built from 1916 on RNAS seaplane bases
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE G) - SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE J) — A steel framed seaplane hangar designed for Royal Navy Air Stations by the admiralty in 1917-1918.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPLANE SHED (TYPE J) - SEAPORT — A port on the sea, rather than on river or estuary.
Search the NHLE for: SEAPORT - SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY — A site in which one or more searchlights were positioned to locate enemy aircraft or surface vessels for the benefit of batteries and night fighter aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: SEARCHLIGHT BATTERY - SEARCHLIGHT EMPLACEMENT — A site in which one or more searchlights and their accompanying structures were positioned to locate enemy aircraft or surface vessels for the benefit of batteries and night fighter aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: SEARCHLIGHT EMPLACEMENT - SEASIDE PAVILION — A light, ornamental building or structure situated close to the sea.
Search the NHLE for: SEASIDE PAVILION - SEASIDE SCHOOL — School built by the local Education Authority to provide residental schooling at the seaside for children from urban communities.
Search the NHLE for: SEASIDE SCHOOL - SEAT — An external structure used to sit on.
Search the NHLE for: SEAT - SECO HUT — A prefabricated structure of cellular hollow plywood 'aero' beams and columns clad with timber framed units of flat asbestos facing sheets and a felt roof. Designed as airfield accommodation that could be reused as post WWII emergency housing.
Search the NHLE for: SECO HUT - SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL — A school attended by children between the ages of eleven and sixteen offering a vocationally orientated curriculum.
Search the NHLE for: SECONDARY MODERN SCHOOL - SECONDARY SCHOOL — A school attended by children between the ages of eleven and sixteen.
Search the NHLE for: SECONDARY SCHOOL - SECTION HOUSE — A building providing lodgings for members of the police force.
Search the NHLE for: SECTION HOUSE - SECTION POST — A large pillbox-like structure, often L-shaped or angular, with numerous loopholes used as a defensive position.
Search the NHLE for: SECTION POST - SECTIONAL HUT (TYPE A) — A prefabricated structure consisting of sectional timber framed units that were bolted together. The structure was clad with Canadian Cedar weatherboarding and had a roof of corrugated asbestos. They were used as temporary accommodation on airfields.
Search the NHLE for: SECTIONAL HUT (TYPE A) - SECTIONAL HUT (TYPE B) — A prefabricated structure consisting of sectional timber framed units that were bolted together. The structure was clad with weatherboarding and had a felted roof. They were used as temporary accommodation on airfields. Also see 'Type A'
Search the NHLE for: SECTIONAL HUT (TYPE B) - SECULAR CATHEDRAL — A cathedral in which the chapter was composed of canons who lived in their own houses and were not governed by a monastic rule. Nine such cathedrals existed in England between the 11th and 16th centuries.
Search the NHLE for: SECULAR CATHEDRAL - SECULAR HALL — The meeting hall of a secular or ethical society.
Search the NHLE for: SECULAR HALL - SEDAN CHAIR LIFT — A stepped, roadside platform, usually of stone on which a sedan chair was placed to allow the porters to lift the chair without having to bend.
Search the NHLE for: SEDAN CHAIR LIFT - SEDILIA BUILDING — A building containing a series of seats for use by the clergy during services. The seats are usually placed in the church and as such this is a very rare monument type, being purpose-built. An example being St. Germoe's Chair in Germoe, Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: SEDILIA BUILDING - SEGMENTED DITCH — A ditch which is not continuous but instead is made up of segments which may vary in length and width.
Search the NHLE for: SEGMENTED DITCH - SEISMOLOGY STATION — A building housing the instrumentation necessary for the observation and measurement of tremors generated by earthquakes.
Search the NHLE for: SEISMOLOGY STATION - SEMAPHORE STATION — A signal station incorporating equipment for visually conveying coded communications.
Search the NHLE for: SEMAPHORE STATION - SEMI DETACHED BUNGALOW — A bungalow joined to another to form one building.
Search the NHLE for: SEMI DETACHED BUNGALOW - SEMI DETACHED HOUSE — A house joined to another to form one building.
Search the NHLE for: SEMI DETACHED HOUSE - SENSORY GARDEN — A garden that has been specifically created to be accessible to both disabled and non-disabled visitors. They may contain scented and edible plants and features designed to make sound etc.
Search the NHLE for: SENSORY GARDEN - SENTRY BOX — A small structure providing cover and protected accommodation for a sentry.
Search the NHLE for: SENTRY BOX - SEPHARDI MATZEVAH — A matzevah from the Sephardi group of Jews descended from medieval Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsular and Northern Africa. Characterised by flat slabs with Hebrew Inscriptions
Search the NHLE for: SEPHARDI MATZEVAH - SEPTIC TANK — A watertight reservoir or tank that receives sewage, and by sedimentation and bacterial action effects a process of partial purification.
Search the NHLE for: SEPTIC TANK - SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the national church of Serbia.
Search the NHLE for: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH - SERGE FACTORY — A factory used for the manufacture of serge, a heavy woollen cloth.
Search the NHLE for: SERGE FACTORY - SERGEANTS MESS — A building providing accommodation, dining facilities and recreation for non commissioned officers.
Search the NHLE for: SERGEANTS MESS - SERPENTINE PATH — A winding path in a garden or park, common in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Search the NHLE for: SERPENTINE PATH - SERPENTINE QUARRY — A quarry for the extraction of Serpentine, a major metamorphic mineral which is easily polished and easily carved. A major variety, lizardite, is found in Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: SERPENTINE QUARRY - SERPENTINE WALK — A winding walk, common in early 18th century Rococo gardens and parks.
Search the NHLE for: SERPENTINE WALK - SERPENTINE WALL — A wall for growing fruit, dating in England from the mid-18th century, whose curving lines gave added strength, thus doing away with the need for buttressing.
Search the NHLE for: SERPENTINE WALL - SERVANTS HALL — Usually a servants' dining room.
Search the NHLE for: SERVANTS HALL - SERVICE SHAFT — A shaft allowing access to an area. Often used as an additional escape route to the main shaft in a mine or as an air shaft.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICE SHAFT - SERVICE STATION — Use for complexes where services (eg. restaurants, shops) are provided in addition to facilities for buying petrol.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICE STATION - SERVICE WING — A building or wing of a large house in which the servants would live and carry out some of their duties.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICE WING - SERVICES CLUB — A place where current and former members of the armed services meet for social and recreational activities.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICES CLUB - SERVICES HOME — A residential establishment for retired armed servicemen and women.
Search the NHLE for: SERVICES HOME - SERVITE FRIARY — A friary of the Order of the Friar servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary or Servites. The Servite Fathers came to England in 1864.
Search the NHLE for: SERVITE FRIARY - SERVITE NUNNERY — A nunnery of nuns belonging to the Order of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary or Servites.
Search the NHLE for: SERVITE NUNNERY - SESSIONS HOUSE — A building housing court rooms and associated offices and cells, in which the Quarter Sessions were held.
Search the NHLE for: SESSIONS HOUSE - SETTLEMENT — A small concentration of dwellings.
Search the NHLE for: SETTLEMENT - SETTLING PIT — Pit for the depostion of ore sediment from waste water collected from ore washing.
Search the NHLE for: SETTLING PIT - SETTLING TANK — A large tank where particles suspended in water, or other liquids, are allowed to sink to the bottom forming a sediment.
Search the NHLE for: SETTLING TANK - SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the Seventh Day Adventists Church. This was formed in 1843 by followers believing in the imminent second coming of Christ.
Search the NHLE for: SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS CHAPEL - SEWAGE FARM — A farm on which liquid sewage was regularly used for irrigation as a means of sewage disposal.
Search the NHLE for: SEWAGE FARM - SEWAGE PUMPING STATION — A building used to pump sewage from the sewers to the filter beds of a sewage works.
Search the NHLE for: SEWAGE PUMPING STATION - SEWAGE WORKS — A group of buildings in which local sewage is filtered and purified in large rectangular or circular tanks.
Search the NHLE for: SEWAGE WORKS - SEWER — A large drain or conduit for carrying away wastes.
Search the NHLE for: SEWER - SEWER INSPECTION CHAMBER — A chamber attached to the sewer of a building to facilitate the removal of any blockage.
Search the NHLE for: SEWER INSPECTION CHAMBER - SEWER VENTILATION PIPE — A tall, hollow pipe, usually cast-iron, resembling a lamp-post. Used to ventilate sewer systems.
Search the NHLE for: SEWER VENTILATION PIPE - SHADOW FACTORY — An existing factory that was converted for use as aircraft works in the run up to or during the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: SHADOW FACTORY - SHAFT — Use only if function unknown, otherwise use specific type.
Search the NHLE for: SHAFT - SHAFT CALCINER — A nineteenth century stone calciner, similar to a lime kiln, used for extracting arsenic from mined ores, consisting of a solid structure with a central shaft and a drawing-hole at the base for calciner waste.
Search the NHLE for: SHAFT CALCINER - SHAFT FURNACE — A furnace constructed as a shaft with the fire at the bottom and the fuel and ore added from the top.
Search the NHLE for: SHAFT FURNACE - SHAFT KILN — A vertical structure, sometimes made of steel, often used in the manufacture of cement. Material is loaded at the top, burnt in the middle and removed at the bottom.
Search the NHLE for: SHAFT KILN - SHAFT MOUND — Circular spoil heap surrounding a wide central depression, the entrance to a mine shaft.
Search the NHLE for: SHAFT MOUND - SHALE QUARRY — A place where shale, a laminated clay or silt which has been compressed by the weight of the rocks over it, is extracted from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: SHALE QUARRY - SHALE WORKING SITE — A site or building used for processing shale. Shale can be fashioned into goods or, if bituminous, distilled to produce oil, naphtha or tar.
Search the NHLE for: SHALE WORKING SITE - SHAMBLES — Traditionally a place where meat and fish were sold.
Search the NHLE for: SHAMBLES - SHED — A slight structure built for shelter or storage, or for use as a workshop, either attached as a lean-to to a permanent building or separate. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SHED - SHED MILL — A single storey mill used in the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: SHED MILL - SHEEP DIP — A place where sheep are washed in a chemical bath to control the parasites of sheep. To conserve the poisonous chemicals the bath is usually small and are not allowed to enter any watercourse.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP DIP - SHEEP FOLD — A pen or enclosure used for containing sheep.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP FOLD - SHEEP HOUSE — A building providing shelter for sheep and storage for fodder and shepherding equipment.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP HOUSE - SHEEP SHEARING SHED — A building in which sheep are sheared.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP SHEARING SHED - SHEEP WASH — A place used to clean the fleece of sheep before shearing. This could be a watercourse temporarily dammed in order to wash sheep.
Search the NHLE for: SHEEP WASH - SHEER HULK — An old ship hull used as a base for lifting tackle.
Search the NHLE for: SHEER HULK - SHEER LEGS — A structure comprising two upright spars, joined at the top to form a triangle, with a hoisting tackle suspended from the apex. Used to lift cargo or other weights.
Search the NHLE for: SHEER LEGS - SHEET METAL WORKS — A site where large sheets of thin metal are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SHEET METAL WORKS - SHEILA NA GIG — A small carved figure, usually female in appearance, probably representing fertility charms, found on Romanesque churches in the West of England, eg. Kilpeck.
Search the NHLE for: SHEILA NA GIG - SHELL BRIDGE — A bridge decorated with shells forming an ornamental feature.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL BRIDGE - SHELL FACTORY — A works or factory where shells or projectiles were machined before they were dispatched to a filling factory to be filled with explosives.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL FACTORY - SHELL FOUNTAIN — A fountain decorated with shells forming an ornamental feature.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL FOUNTAIN - SHELL GROTTO — A grotto decorated with shells, sometimes a room in a house, sometimes a detached building.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL GROTTO - SHELL HOUSE — An ornamental building, usually decorated with or displaying shells.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL HOUSE - SHELL KEEP — A Norman keep, in the form of a circular or polygonal enclosure surrounded by a wall.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL KEEP - SHELL MIDDEN — A refuse heap of discarded shells.
Search the NHLE for: SHELL MIDDEN - SHELTER — A structure which protects an area of ground from the weather.
Search the NHLE for: SHELTER - SHELTER SHED — An open-sided building known to have been used for sheltering animals other than cattle.
Search the NHLE for: SHELTER SHED - SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION — Accommodation designed for the elderly, disabled, etc, as individual units.
Search the NHLE for: SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION - SHEMOT — Sacred Jewish texts and appurtenances buried within a Jewish cemetery.
Search the NHLE for: SHEMOT - SHEPHERDS HUT — A small building used as a shelter by a shepherd.
Search the NHLE for: SHEPHERDS HUT - SHIELING — Pasture to which animals were driven for grazing, with associated temporary huts for domestic or agricultural use.
Search the NHLE for: SHIELING - SHIFTED VILLAGE — An extant settlement which shows evidence of a shift in focus, eg. towards a new road, generally in the form of abandoned buildings or earthworks on the margin furthest from the new focus.
Search the NHLE for: SHIFTED VILLAGE - SHIFTING HOUSE — A building in a military complex (eg. naval dockyard, castle, etc.) for preparing gunpowder.
Search the NHLE for: SHIFTING HOUSE - SHIP BREAKERS YARD — Place where ships and boats are dismantled.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP BREAKERS YARD - SHIP BURIAL — A burial in which the body is placed in, or covered by a boat, which is then covered with earth. Use with barrow type where relevant.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP BURIAL - SHIP CANAL — A canal that can accommodate ocean-going ships, usually built across an isthmus or to give access to a river port e.g. Manchester ship canal
Search the NHLE for: SHIP CANAL - SHIP CHANDLERY — A commercial premises supplying ships with provisions.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP CHANDLERY - SHIP GRAVEYARD — An area of the sea or coastline where vessels have been abandoned.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP GRAVEYARD - SHIP REPAIR WORKS — A site containing slipways and associated buildings used specifically for the repair of ships and larger ocean-going craft.
Search the NHLE for: SHIP REPAIR WORKS - SHIPHOUSE FRAME — An open metalwork structure supporting either a fabrication shed or the runners for an overhead crane.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPHOUSE FRAME - SHIPPING WAREHOUSE — A large store for the temporary accommodation of goods awaiting transportation to or from the sea.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPPING WAREHOUSE - SHIPWRECK GRAVE — Graves known to be of shipwreck victims buried close to their site of discovery, as was customary until the 19th century, rather than in consecrated ground.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPWRECK GRAVE - SHIPWRIGHTS WORKSHOP — A place where dockyard craftsmen both design and build ships.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPWRIGHTS WORKSHOP - SHIPYARD — A place where boats or ships are built or repaired.
Search the NHLE for: SHIPYARD - SHIRE HALL — A county judicial building where the Quarter Session and the Assizes for the County were held.
Search the NHLE for: SHIRE HALL - SHIRT FACTORY — A factory where shirts are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SHIRT FACTORY - SHODDY MILL — A mill in which poor quality woollen cloth was made from fibres produced by grinding light woollen rags.
Search the NHLE for: SHODDY MILL - SHODE WORKING — An extractive pit or pits, usually 2.5m square by 2m deep dug to extract tin ore in areas where streamworking is not possible. Usually dug along a vein rather than across it.
Search the NHLE for: SHODE WORKING - SHOE FACTORY — A factory where boots and shoes are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SHOE FACTORY - SHOE MACHINERY DEPOT — A depot or warehouse for the storage, distribution and repair of shoe making machines.
Search the NHLE for: SHOE MACHINERY DEPOT - SHOE MACHINERY WORKS — An engineering works that produces machinery specially for use in shoe making.
Search the NHLE for: SHOE MACHINERY WORKS - SHOE WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used for the storage of shoes or boots.
Search the NHLE for: SHOE WAREHOUSE - SHOOTING STAND — Position often screened by earth, stone or wood from which game is shot.
Search the NHLE for: SHOOTING STAND - SHOP — A house or building where goods are made or prepared and displayed for sale and sold. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SHOP - SHOPPING ARCADE — A covered shopping street, sometimes with galleries, dating from the late 18th/early 19th century.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING ARCADE - SHOPPING CENTRE — A shopping complex, usually indoors, comprised of a number of separate retail outlets surrounding an open space. Often on more than one level.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING CENTRE - SHOPPING PARADE — A purpose-built terrace of shops.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING PARADE - SHOPPING PRECINCT — A pedestrianized shopping street, or a more complex arrangement of shopping 'squares' and walkways.
Search the NHLE for: SHOPPING PRECINCT - SHOT TOWER — A tower in which shot is made from molten lead poured through sieves at top and falling into water at bottom.
Search the NHLE for: SHOT TOWER - SHOWGROUND — A large area, usually open-air, used for permanent, seasonal or regular shows, events or exhibitions.
Search the NHLE for: SHOWGROUND - SHOWROOM — A room used for the display of merchandise for sale.
Search the NHLE for: SHOWROOM - SHRINE — A place where worship is offered or devotions are paid to a deity or saint.
Search the NHLE for: SHRINE - SHRUB BORDER — A long bed planted with mixed shrubs, usually found near the house.
Search the NHLE for: SHRUB BORDER - SHRUBBERY — A plantation of shrubs.
Search the NHLE for: SHRUBBERY - SHRUNKEN VILLAGE — A settlement where previous house sites are now unoccupied, but often visible as earthworks, crop or soil marks.
Search the NHLE for: SHRUNKEN VILLAGE - SHUTTER TELEGRAPH STATION — A signalling station which used a series of shutters to indicate various messages.
Search the NHLE for: SHUTTER TELEGRAPH STATION - SHUTTLE WORKS — A manufacturing site producing weaving shuttles for the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: SHUTTLE WORKS - SICK QUARTERS — A building used for the accommodation of sick and wounded members of the armed forces.
Search the NHLE for: SICK QUARTERS - SIEGE — In the glass industry this is bench-like structure within the melting-furnace on which crucibles are placed.
Search the NHLE for: SIEGE - SIEGE CASTLE — A temporary castle built to house and protect troops beseiging another castle or town.
Search the NHLE for: SIEGE CASTLE - SIEGEWORK — A temporary earthwork or fortification constructed by forces laying siege to a castle or town, etc.
Search the NHLE for: SIEGEWORK - SIGN — A board, wall painting or other structure displaying advice, giving information or directions
Search the NHLE for: SIGN - SIGNAL BOX — A building on a railway system housing levers used to regulate trains on the tracks using signals and to change the points to enable a train to transfer from one track to another.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL BOX - SIGNAL POST — A cast iron post similar to a lamp post, with revolving top to carry either coloured plates, or an oil lamp with coloured glass at night. Associated with canal or river navigation locks.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL POST - SIGNAL SQUARE — A signalling structure used on WWII airfields, comprising a concrete square base with a kerbed border into which concrete signal symbols could be placed to advise pilots in the air of current airfield state e.g. directions of landing and airfield circuit.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL SQUARE - SIGNAL STATION — A building or tower used to communicate information to shipping or other stations using signals such as flags, fires or lights. Roman signal stations took the form of a stone tower surrounded by a ditched enclosure and were used to warn of Saxon raids.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL STATION - SIGNAL TOWER — A tower in a semaphore communication system. Often a three-storey building on a hill in line-of-sight, signal towers provided working and living space, usually for two crewmen with their families.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNAL TOWER - SIGNALLING BATTERY — A gun battery used to signal warnings to ships during bad weather.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALLING BATTERY - SIGNALLING STRUCTURE — Buildings and structures associated with signal communication.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALLING STRUCTURE - SIGNALMANS COTTAGE — The residence of a signalman.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALMANS COTTAGE - SIGNALS GATHERING STATION — Buildings and structures associated with the acquisition of electronic signals for the purpose of intelligence gathering.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNALS GATHERING STATION - SIGNPOST — A post bearing one or more signs indicating the direction, and often the distance, to specified locations or routes.
Search the NHLE for: SIGNPOST - SIKH TEMPLE — A place of worship for followers of Sikhism.
Search the NHLE for: SIKH TEMPLE - SILAGE CLAMP — A three-sided structure for the production and storage of silage.
Search the NHLE for: SILAGE CLAMP - SILICA QUARRY — A place where silica or silicate, the most common mineral component of rock, is extracted from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: SILICA QUARRY - SILK DRYING SHED — A building in which silk was dried.
Search the NHLE for: SILK DRYING SHED - SILK MANUFACTURING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of silk.
Search the NHLE for: SILK MANUFACTURING SITE - SILK MILL — A mill used for the mechanized processing of silk.
Search the NHLE for: SILK MILL - SILKWORM FARM — A farm or group of buildings where Silkworms are bred. The Silkworm when changing into a pupa spins a cocoon made of silken filaments, these are then unwound and used to manufacture silk thread.
Search the NHLE for: SILKWORM FARM - SILO — A building or structure for the storage of processed minerals, chemicals or agricultural products, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SILO - SILVER HEARTH — Ore hearth specifically for the refining of silver.
Search the NHLE for: SILVER HEARTH - SILVER MINE — Use with other minerals extracted and MINE where relevant, eg. ZINC MINE.
Search the NHLE for: SILVER MINE - SILVER REFINERY — Any building or site in which silver was refined and/or extracted by smelting, cupellation, liquation or by the Parkes Process. IA-C20. Don't use for lead or copper smelters at which silver has been extracted unless silver-related features survive.
Search the NHLE for: SILVER REFINERY - SILVER WORKING SITE — A site or building where silver was processed and/or worked and fashioned into objects.
Search the NHLE for: SILVER WORKING SITE - SILVERSMITHS WORKSHOP — A place where silverware is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SILVERSMITHS WORKSHOP - SINGLE AISLED BARN — A barn in which a central space is separated from a side aisle by posts and braces.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE AISLED BARN - SINGLE AISLED BUILDING — A building with an aisle on one side only.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE AISLED BUILDING - SINGLE AISLED HOUSE — A house with an aisle on one side only.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE AISLED HOUSE - SINGLE ENDED HALL HOUSE — A house consisting of a single storey open hall with a two storey domestic range attached at one end, forming a T shape.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE ENDED HALL HOUSE - SINGLE ENDED WEALDEN HOUSE — A wealden house with only one end being jettied.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE ENDED WEALDEN HOUSE - SINGLE GUN (DIVER) BATTERY — 40mm gun emplacement created between 24th-26th June 1944 as part of the fourth deployment of Diver LAA guns to the Kentish Gun Belt. Each site had an extant searchlight battery.
Search the NHLE for: SINGLE GUN (DIVER) BATTERY - SIROCCO FAN HOUSE — An electric fan used for the ventilation of mines.
Search the NHLE for: SIROCCO FAN HOUSE - SISTERS OF ST JOHN NUNNERY — A priory of the female Order of Knights Hospitallers.
Search the NHLE for: SISTERS OF ST JOHN NUNNERY - SITE — Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible.
Search the NHLE for: SITE - SKATEPARK — A purpose-built facility providing an area for wheeled sports, such as skateboarding, skating and BMX cycling, equipped with ramps and other structures and obstacles for the performance of tricks and manoeuvres.
Search the NHLE for: SKATEPARK - SKATING RINK — A piece of ice or a floor, often within a building, used for skating.
Search the NHLE for: SKATING RINK - SKIN DISEASE HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical treatment of skin diseases.
Search the NHLE for: SKIN DISEASE HOSPITAL - SKITTLE ALLEY — A place where the game of skittles is played.
Search the NHLE for: SKITTLE ALLEY - SLAB BLOCK — A rectangular multi-storey block of flats, greater in width than height.
Search the NHLE for: SLAB BLOCK - SLAB BRIDGE — A type of concrete bridge, developed in the 20th century, that consists of reinforced concrete deck slabs that sit on the supporting bridge piers and/or abutments.
Search the NHLE for: SLAB BRIDGE - SLAG HEAP — A spoil heap consisting mainly of slag, pieces of refuse material separated from a metal during the smelting process.
Search the NHLE for: SLAG HEAP - SLAG HEARTH — A hearth used for the reheating of metal slag to extract further metal.
Search the NHLE for: SLAG HEARTH - SLAG PIT — A pit containing the waste product form iron working.
Search the NHLE for: SLAG PIT - SLAG WORKS — A site or factory where waste slag from ironworking if further processed for use in manufacturing.
Search the NHLE for: SLAG WORKS - SLATE QUARRY — A site where slate is quarried from the ground.
Search the NHLE for: SLATE QUARRY - SLEDWAY — An early form of railway for the transportation of freight by sleds.
Search the NHLE for: SLEDWAY - SLEECHING SALT WORKS — A coastal site producing salt by scraping up salt-impregnated sand and silt, leeching out the salt to produce a concentrated brine, then boiling in 'saltcotes' (small huts containing lead pans)
Search the NHLE for: SLEECHING SALT WORKS - SLIP (GARDEN) — A strip of cultivated land situated against the exterior of a walled garden's perimeter, so placed to maximise usable wall space.
Search the NHLE for: SLIP (GARDEN) - SLIP SHED — A wooden or metal structure covering a shipbuilding slip way.
Search the NHLE for: SLIP SHED - SLIPPER BATHS — Originally partially covered baths shaped somewhat like a slipper, now usually a number of single baths of the modern domestic style installed for hire at public baths.
Search the NHLE for: SLIPPER BATHS - SLIPPER WORKS — Factory making slippers.
Search the NHLE for: SLIPPER WORKS - SLIPWAY — A structure inclined towards the water on which a ship may be built or lowered into the water.
Search the NHLE for: SLIPWAY - SLIT TRENCH — A short trench used to protect troops or to provide defensive fire from, often dug for practice purposes.
Search the NHLE for: SLIT TRENCH - SLITTING MILL — A mill with machinery used to cut slabs of metal into rods, or thin sections, for use in nail making or wire drawing.
Search the NHLE for: SLITTING MILL - SLUICE — A dam which can be raised or lowered to regulate the flow of water.
Search the NHLE for: SLUICE - SLUICE GATE — The gate of a sluice which can be opened or shut to let out or retain the water.
Search the NHLE for: SLUICE GATE - SLUICE HOUSE — A building containing machinery for operating sluices.
Search the NHLE for: SLUICE HOUSE - SLYPE — A covered way or passage especially in a cathedral or monastic church, leading east from the cloisters between transept and chapter house.
Search the NHLE for: SLYPE - SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION FACTORY — A factory engaged in the manufacture of small arms ammunition, especially the metal components and filling with the explosive propellant.
Search the NHLE for: SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION FACTORY - SMALLHOLDING — A holding on a smaller-scale than an ordinary farm.
Search the NHLE for: SMALLHOLDING - SMELT MILL — A manufacturing complex incorporating furnaces, calciner and condenser flues. Use SMELTERY for more modern type of plant.
Search the NHLE for: SMELT MILL - SMELTERY — A site where ores are smelted. Use more specific site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SMELTERY - SMELTING HOUSE — An ancilliary building within a larger works, as distinct from a SMELT MILL.
Search the NHLE for: SMELTING HOUSE - SMITHS COTTAGE — The dwelling of a blacksmith, nailer, sword cutler, etc, often adjacent to, or containing, a BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP.
Search the NHLE for: SMITHS COTTAGE - SMOCK MILL — A windmill with a stationary timber body which contains the grinding machinery, and which supports a rotating cap in which the sails rotate.
Search the NHLE for: SMOCK MILL - SMOKE GENERATOR — Smoke generators (also known as smoke pots) were used to create a smoke screen to provide defensive cover for strategic targets
Search the NHLE for: SMOKE GENERATOR - SMOKE HOUSE — A building used to smoke fish or meat.
Search the NHLE for: SMOKE HOUSE - SMUGGLERS CACHE — A hiding place for stores, often underground, used by smugglers.
Search the NHLE for: SMUGGLERS CACHE - SNOOKER HALL — A building with facilities for playing snooker.
Search the NHLE for: SNOOKER HALL - SNUFF MILL — A factory where tobacco was ground to form snuff.
Search the NHLE for: SNUFF MILL - SOAKAWAY — A pit filled with rubble, etc., into which rain or waste water flows in order to disperse into the surrounding soil.
Search the NHLE for: SOAKAWAY - SOAKING PIT — A furnace for holding hot steel ingots to equalize their temperature before they are hot-rolled in a steel-making or rolling mill complex.
Search the NHLE for: SOAKING PIT - SOAP FACTORY — A building or buildings where soap is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SOAP FACTORY - SOAPSTONE QUARRY — A quarry for the extraction of Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock), a metamorphic rock largely composed of the mineral talc and rich in magnesium.
Search the NHLE for: SOAPSTONE QUARRY - SOCIAL CLUB — A building used by a group of people who meet socially to participate in activities, usually related to a particular interest or occupation.
Search the NHLE for: SOCIAL CLUB - SOCKETED STONE — A stone which has a socket for an unknown function. Use specific term where known.
Search the NHLE for: SOCKETED STONE - SODA KILN — A kiln used for the production of any of the soda group of alkalis by the heating of plant remains or salt.
Search the NHLE for: SODA KILN - SODA WORKS — A site used for the production of sodium bicarbonate, soda ash or caustic soda.
Search the NHLE for: SODA WORKS - SOFT DRINKS FACTORY — A commercial building, or buildings, used for the production of soft drinks.
Search the NHLE for: SOFT DRINKS FACTORY - SOFT PLAY AREA — A building containing soft play equipment for children.
Search the NHLE for: SOFT PLAY AREA - SOLAR EVAPORATION PAN — A shallow artificial pond, usually found on the coast, in which sea water is allowed to evaporate leaving behind the salt.
Search the NHLE for: SOLAR EVAPORATION PAN - SOLAR SALT WORKS — A coastal site producing salt by solar evaporation of seawater in a series of PONDS, without any boiling stage
Search the NHLE for: SOLAR SALT WORKS - SOLARIUM — A terrace, balcony or room exposed to the rays of the sun which were thought to be beneficial to recovering from an illness.
Search the NHLE for: SOLARIUM - SONAR STATION — A building or site incorporating sonar equipment used for detecting the presence of enemy ships or submarines.
Search the NHLE for: SONAR STATION - SORTING OFFICE — A place where letters and parcels are sorted before being distributed. Usually found at a large general post office.
Search the NHLE for: SORTING OFFICE - SOUND LOCATOR EMPLACEMENT — An emplacement housing mobile sound locating acoustic dishes/horns for the detection of incoming enemy aircraft and the triangulation of their positions so that they could be targeted by Anti aircraft guns.
Search the NHLE for: SOUND LOCATOR EMPLACEMENT - SOUND MIRROR — An early warning structure built during and after WWI along the south and east coasts of England. Sound detecting acoustic dishes and walls could detect the sound of approaching enemy aircraft at a distance of 8 to 15 miles.
Search the NHLE for: SOUND MIRROR - SOUND MIRROR (20 FEET) — A concrete, circular concave dish 20 feet in diameter used as an acoustic listening device to detect approaching enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: SOUND MIRROR (20 FEET) - SOUND MIRROR (200 FEET) — A concrete, concave wall 200 feet in length used as an acoustic listening device to detect approaching enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: SOUND MIRROR (200 FEET) - SOUND MIRROR (30 FEET) — A concrete, circular concave dish 30 feet in diameter used as an acoustic listening device to detect approaching enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: SOUND MIRROR (30 FEET) - SOUND MIRROR BUILDING — A building housing the acoustic detection equipment for a sound mirror
Search the NHLE for: SOUND MIRROR BUILDING - SOUP KITCHEN — A place where soup and food is available to the homeless.
Search the NHLE for: SOUP KITCHEN - SOUTERRAIN — An underground chamber, store room or passage.
Search the NHLE for: SOUTERRAIN - SPA — A medicinal or mineral spring often with an associated building.
Search the NHLE for: SPA - SPA HOTEL — A building offering accommodation to people who are visiting a town or locality renowned for its mineral springs.
Search the NHLE for: SPA HOTEL - SPA PAVILION — A light, ornamental building or structure built to incorporate, or in association with, a mineral spring.
Search the NHLE for: SPA PAVILION - SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE BASE — A military base for the training of SOE operatives in the skills and techniques required to survive in enemy-occupied territory.
Search the NHLE for: SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE BASE - SPECIAL SCHOOL — A school for pupils with physical or learning difficulties.
Search the NHLE for: SPECIAL SCHOOL - SPECIALIST HOSPITAL — A hospital providing medical, surgical or psychiatric testing and treatment for patients with specific illnesses or injuries.
Search the NHLE for: SPECIALIST HOSPITAL - SPECTACLE ENCLOSURE — A site consisting of, usually two, sub-circular enclosures linked by a linear ditch running tangentially to the enclosure boundaries. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period in the Wessex region.
Search the NHLE for: SPECTACLE ENCLOSURE - SPEEDWAY TRACK — A specially prepared track used for fast motorcycle racing.
Search the NHLE for: SPEEDWAY TRACK - SPHINX — A sculptured, carved or moulded representation of an imaginary creature with a human head and breast combined with the body of a lion.
Search the NHLE for: SPHINX - SPIDER BILLET — A barracks comprising eight barrack blocks accessed via a central corridor. With four blocks on either side of the corridor the whole structure resembled a spider in plan.
Search the NHLE for: SPIDER BILLET - SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT — A pit or emplacement surrounding a concrete pedestal, or 'thimble', which was used to mount a spigot mortar. Deployed by the Home Guard during WWII as an anti invasion measure.
Search the NHLE for: SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT - SPILLWAY — A channel carrying overflow water past a dam. Early 19th century onwards.
Search the NHLE for: SPILLWAY - SPINNING MILL — A mill or factory in which raw cotton, wool, nylon or other material is spun into yarn or thread.
Search the NHLE for: SPINNING MILL - SPINNING SHED — A building associated with a spinning mill in which raw material is mechanically spun into yarn or thread.
Search the NHLE for: SPINNING SHED - SPINNING SHOP — A workshop in which textile fibres were spun into yarn by hand.
Search the NHLE for: SPINNING SHOP - SPIRIT CELLAR — A building or subterranean structure used for the storage of spirits.
Search the NHLE for: SPIRIT CELLAR - SPIRITUALIST CHURCH — A place of worship for the believers of spiritualism: The belief that the spirits of the dead can somehow manifest themselves and speak with the living.
Search the NHLE for: SPIRITUALIST CHURCH - SPLIT SHAFT KILN — A twin-shafted kiln, circular or oval in plan, consisting of a fire chamber, pre-heater and cooling chamber.
Search the NHLE for: SPLIT SHAFT KILN - SPOIL HEAP — A conical or flat-topped tip of waste discarded from a mine or similar site.
Search the NHLE for: SPOIL HEAP - SPORTS BUILDING — A building in which a sport is played. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS BUILDING - SPORTS CENTRE — A specially built building where facilities exist for the playing of a variety of sports.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS CENTRE - SPORTS EQUIPMENT FACTORY — A factory manufacturing sports equipment.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS EQUIPMENT FACTORY - SPORTS GROUND — An area of prepared ground on which a sport is played. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS GROUND - SPORTS PAVILION — A building, usually at a sports ground, with facilities for players and spectators.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS PAVILION - SPORTS SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with sporting activities.
Search the NHLE for: SPORTS SITE - SPRING — A point where water issues naturally from the rock or soil onto the ground or into a body of surface water.
Search the NHLE for: SPRING - SPRING SHOP — An engineering workshop for the manufacture and repair of springs.
Search the NHLE for: SPRING SHOP - SPRING WORKS — A site where metal springs are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: SPRING WORKS - SQUADRON OFFICE — A building used for the administration of a squadron.
Search the NHLE for: SQUADRON OFFICE - SQUARE — An open space or area, usually square in plan, in a town or city, enclosed by residential and/or commercial buildings, frequently containing a garden or laid out with trees.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE - SQUARE BARROW — A burial monument, usually of Iron age date, comprising a small square ditched enclosure surrounding a central interment, which may also have been covered by a mound.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE BARROW - SQUARE CAIRN — A roughly square mound of stones which may also contain or conceal a burial.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE CAIRN - SQUARE ENCLOSURE — A square shaped area of land enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier. Small square enclosures (with sides of less than c.20m) have been interpreted as the remains of square barrows of Iron Age date.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE ENCLOSURE - SQUARE PARTERRE — A parterre consisting of square beds containing ornamental plants often laid out in intricate patterns mimicking embroidery.
Search the NHLE for: SQUARE PARTERRE - SQUASH COURT — A place where the game of squash is played.
Search the NHLE for: SQUASH COURT - SQUATTER SETTLEMENT — A site occupied by people who have no legal right to the land or buildings on it.
Search the NHLE for: SQUATTER SETTLEMENT - SQUATTERS COTTAGE — A cottage erected over a short period of time, by people who had no legal right to the land. Squatters were often tolerated by the landlord as they provided cheap labour.
Search the NHLE for: SQUATTERS COTTAGE - STABLE — A building in which horses are accommodated.
Search the NHLE for: STABLE - STABLEHANDS LODGINGS — A place of accommodation for a stablehand.
Search the NHLE for: STABLEHANDS LODGINGS - STACK STAND — A platform for storing winter fodder.
Search the NHLE for: STACK STAND - STACK YARD — A farmyard or enclosure containing regularly built stacks of hay, corn, peas etc.
Search the NHLE for: STACK YARD - STADDLE BARN — A threshing barn, usually timber framed which is raised on staddle stones.
Search the NHLE for: STADDLE BARN - STADDLE STONE — Mushroom-shaped stones used to raise the floor of barns, granaries etc. above ground level, to prevent vermin gaining access to stored grain and fodder.
Search the NHLE for: STADDLE STONE - STADIUM — A large, usually unroofed building with tiers of seats for spectators built in various shapes and enclosing a field used for sports events.
Search the NHLE for: STADIUM - STAINED GLASS WORKSHOP — A place where stained glass is manufactured, traditionally for church windows.
Search the NHLE for: STAINED GLASS WORKSHOP - STAIRCASE LOCK — Two or more adjacent locks where the upper gates of one lock serve as the lower gates of the next.
Search the NHLE for: STAIRCASE LOCK - STAITHE — A waterside depot for coals brought from the collieries for shipment, furnished with staging and chutes for loading vessels.
Search the NHLE for: STAITHE - STAKE ALIGNMENT — An alignment of stakes or stakeholes of unknown function
Search the NHLE for: STAKE ALIGNMENT - STAKE CIRCLE — A circle of wooden stakes or stake holes in the ground.
Search the NHLE for: STAKE CIRCLE - STAKE HOLE — A hole in the ground which has been created by driving or hammering an upright stake into the ground. As a feature of some archaeological sites they may often represent the only surviving evidence for the former presence of an above-ground structure.
Search the NHLE for: STAKE HOLE - STALLION HOUSE — A building where a stallion is kept.
Search the NHLE for: STALLION HOUSE - STAMPING MILL — Building or structure housing a form of ore crushing device associated with tin mines.
Search the NHLE for: STAMPING MILL - STAMPS — Form of ore crushing machinery associated with tin mines often wooden and water-powered.
Search the NHLE for: STAMPS - STAND BY SET HOUSE — A building housing the stand-by generator set and associated equipment which could supply electricity to all essential services in the event of a power cut.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE - STAND BY SET HOUSE (1039/41) — A stand by set house built to Air Ministry drawing number 1039/41.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (1039/41) - STAND BY SET HOUSE (13244/41) — A stand by set house designed to drawing number 13244/41 and comprising of 4 rooms; a fuel storage room, a transformer chamber, a switchgear chamber and the main engine room with 2 diesel engines.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (13244/41) - STAND BY SET HOUSE (16302/41) — A stand by set house similar to 13244/41 and designed to drawing number 16302/41 and comprising of 4 rooms; a fuel storage room, a transformer chamber, a switchgear chamber and the main engine room with 3 diesel engines.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (16302/41) - STAND BY SET HOUSE (3527/43) — A portable stand by set house built to Air Ministry drawing number 3527/43.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (3527/43) - STAND BY SET HOUSE (4238/44) — A stand by set house built to Air Ministry drawing number 4238/44.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (4238/44) - STAND BY SET HOUSE (607/36) — An expansion period stand by set house designed to drawing number 607/36 and containing a single generator set and switch board. Constructed in reinforced concrete.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (607/36) - STAND BY SET HOUSE (8760/42) — A stand by set house built with a steel-framed pitched roof. Built to drawing number 8760/42 it was intended to supersede all earlier designs and was cheaper to produce. Both the transformer and fuel tanks were located outside the main building.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (8760/42) - STAND BY SET HOUSE (974/35) — An expansion period stand by set house designed to drawing number 974/35 and containing a single generator set and switch board. Constructed with brick cavity walls.
Search the NHLE for: STAND BY SET HOUSE (974/35) - STANDING STONE — A stone or boulder which has been deliberately set upright in the ground. Use only for isolated stones. Otherwise use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: STANDING STONE - STANNARY COURT — A medieval court for tin miners in Devon and Cornwall.
Search the NHLE for: STANNARY COURT - STANTON SHELTER — A commercially manufactured air raid shelter, using prefabricated parabolic concrete panels which could be combined to produce any length of shelter.Usually semi-sunken and covered with earth they were mainly used on RAF sites.
Search the NHLE for: STANTON SHELTER - STAR FORT — A fort with a star trace plan, designed to increase the angles of fire.
Search the NHLE for: STAR FORT - STARCH MILL — A mill used for the extraction and processing of starch.
Search the NHLE for: STARCH MILL - STARFISH SITE — A decoy site designed to simulate a burning urban area during a bombing raid in order to lure enemy bombers away from legitimate targets.
Search the NHLE for: STARFISH SITE - STARTING GATE — A gate or mechanism designed to allow animals which are being raced to start at the same time.
Search the NHLE for: STARTING GATE - STATION CANOPY — A supported, roof structure covering all, or part, of a railway platform.
Search the NHLE for: STATION CANOPY - STATION HEADQUARTERS — Headquarters buildings on military airfields for administrative purposes housing offices, lecture rooms and in some cases a library and a meteorological office. On smaller airfields it is called Station Offices. Abbreviation SQH.
Search the NHLE for: STATION HEADQUARTERS - STATION MASTERS HOUSE — The residence of a station master.
Search the NHLE for: STATION MASTERS HOUSE - STATION SIGN — A board indicating the name of the railway station.
Search the NHLE for: STATION SIGN - STATIONAL MONUMENT — A monument within a church or cathedral representing one of the stations of the cross. Usually images or pictures of successive incidents of the Passion, they are intended to be visited for meditation and prayer.
Search the NHLE for: STATIONAL MONUMENT - STATIONERY WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used for the storage of stationery materials.
Search the NHLE for: STATIONERY WAREHOUSE - STATUE — A representation in the round of a living being, allegorical personage, eminent person or animal, etc, sculptured, moulded or cast in marble, metal, plaster, etc.
Search the NHLE for: STATUE - STATUE FOUNDRY — A workshop or factory where statues are made by casting molten material into moulds.
Search the NHLE for: STATUE FOUNDRY - STATUE WORKSHOP — A workshop used for the manufacture of statues, either cast or carved.
Search the NHLE for: STATUE WORKSHOP - STAUNCH — A lock or a dam in a river.
Search the NHLE for: STAUNCH - STEAM CRANE — A crane powered by a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM CRANE - STEAM ENGINE — An engine in which the mechanical force of steam is made available as a motive power for driving machinery.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM ENGINE - STEAM ENGINE HOUSE — A building housing a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM ENGINE HOUSE - STEAM MILL — A steam-powered factory.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM MILL - STEAM PLANT — An industrial site or building where the machinery is powered by a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM PLANT - STEAM PLOUGHED RIG — A ridge and furrow produced by a plough drawn between two steam engined vehicles, or a steam engined vehicle and a moveable windlass, standing on opposite headlands.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM PLOUGHED RIG - STEAM POWER PRODUCTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production and use of steam power.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM POWER PRODUCTION SITE - STEAM PUMP — A machine used to raise and move water and other liquids, compress gases etc. and powered by a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM PUMP - STEAM TURBINE — A motor in which rotary motion is produced by steam power.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM TURBINE - STEAM TURBINE POWER STATION — A complex of buildings where electricity is produced using steam-powered turbines.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM TURBINE POWER STATION - STEAM WHIM — A steam-powered machine used for raising ore or water from a mine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM WHIM - STEAM WHIM HOUSE — A steam driven winding engine house for raising coal to the surface.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM WHIM HOUSE - STEAM WINCH — A winch powered by a steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM WINCH - STEAM WINDER — A steam powered winding gear used at a colliery or other mine.
Search the NHLE for: STEAM WINDER - STEAMING SHED — A building used specifically for testing the boilers of railway engines, both hydraulically and with live steam.
Search the NHLE for: STEAMING SHED - STEEL TEST HOUSE — A building used for the testing of steel.
Search the NHLE for: STEEL TEST HOUSE - STEEL WORKING SITE — A site used for the manufacturing of steel. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: STEEL WORKING SITE - STEEL WORKS — A site containing plant and machinery for the manufacture of steel.
Search the NHLE for: STEEL WORKS - STEELYARD — Traditionally, dating from the medieval period, this was an area on the north bank of the Thames where the Merchants of the Hanse conducted their business. Now includes a similar establishment in a provincial town.
Search the NHLE for: STEELYARD - STEEPING PIT — Pit for soaking animal hides as part of the tanning process.
Search the NHLE for: STEEPING PIT - STEEPING TANK — A large tank used for soaking alumina-bearing shale in water and chemicals, the initial stage in the alum-making process.
Search the NHLE for: STEEPING TANK - STEPPED TERRACE — A terrace of houses built on a slope giving the roofline a stepped appearance.
Search the NHLE for: STEPPED TERRACE - STEPPING STONES — Stones placed in the bed of a stream or on wet ground, to enable crossing on foot.
Search the NHLE for: STEPPING STONES - STEPS — A series of flat-topped structures, usually made of stone or wood, used to facilitate a person's movement from one level to another.
Search the NHLE for: STEPS - STEWARDS HOUSE — The residence of a person entrusted with the management of a great house or castle.
Search the NHLE for: STEWARDS HOUSE - STILE — A set of steps or a framework of bars and steps for crossing over a fence or wall.
Search the NHLE for: STILE - STILL HOUSE — A building housing equipment for the process of distillation.
Search the NHLE for: STILL HOUSE - STILLING HOUSE — A distilling or brewing house.
Search the NHLE for: STILLING HOUSE - STOCK ENCLOSURE — A pound for the accommodation of livestock.
Search the NHLE for: STOCK ENCLOSURE - STOCK EXCHANGE — A building which provides the centralized market for trading in stocks and shares and for raising capital for industry.
Search the NHLE for: STOCK EXCHANGE - STOCKADED ENCLOSURE — An enclosure surrounded by a wooden stockade. A rare site type of Neolithic date.
Search the NHLE for: STOCKADED ENCLOSURE - STOCKS — An instrument of punishment, in which the offender was placed in a sitting position in a timber frame, with holes to confine the ankles and wrists between two planks.
Search the NHLE for: STOCKS - STOKE PIT — The position of a fire in a wood-fuelled furnace. All periods from the Iron Age to the 17th century.
Search the NHLE for: STOKE PIT - STONE — Use only where stone is natural or where there is no indication of function.
Search the NHLE for: STONE - STONE ALIGNMENT — A single line, or two or more roughly parallel lines, of standing stones set at intervals along a common axis or series of axes.
Search the NHLE for: STONE ALIGNMENT - STONE AVENUE — A monument consisting of parallel lines of standing stones, which appears to mark out an approach to another monument or monuments.
Search the NHLE for: STONE AVENUE - STONE AXE FACTORY — Source from which stone utilized for the manufacture of non-flint artefacts, including axes, was obtained. Applied only to sources exploited during the Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age. Do not use for flint mining or knapping sites.
Search the NHLE for: STONE AXE FACTORY - STONE BLOCK — A piece of stone, usually shaped, of uncertain origin or use.
Search the NHLE for: STONE BLOCK - STONE BREAKING YARD — A place where inmates of a workhouse or prison carried out stone breaking.
Search the NHLE for: STONE BREAKING YARD - STONE CIRCLE — An approximately circular or oval setting of spaced, usually freestanding, upright stones. More than one circle may be present, arranged concentrically.
Search the NHLE for: STONE CIRCLE - STONE COVE — A group of, usually three, standing stones forming a square with an open side and often found with a stone circle.
Search the NHLE for: STONE COVE - STONE CRUSHING PLANT — A place where pieces of stone are crushed and ground.
Search the NHLE for: STONE CRUSHING PLANT - STONE DISPATCH BUILDING — A building in a quarry consisting of a series of loading bays in which stone is loaded onto wagons.
Search the NHLE for: STONE DISPATCH BUILDING - STONE DRESSING FLOOR — A place where stone is dressed or shaped for use in building, etc.
Search the NHLE for: STONE DRESSING FLOOR - STONE EXTRACTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the extraction of stone. Includes preparation processes.
Search the NHLE for: STONE EXTRACTION SITE - STONE GRUBBING SITE — A site used for the small scale extraction and working of surface boulders.
Search the NHLE for: STONE GRUBBING SITE - STONE MILL — A flour mill which uses one or more pairs of horizontal millstones to grind wheat into flour which millers call a ‘sudden death’ process; within not more than 90 seconds complete wheat grain becomes wholemeal flour.
Search the NHLE for: STONE MILL - STONE QUARRY — An excavation from which stone for building is obtained by cutting, blasting etc.
Search the NHLE for: STONE QUARRY - STONE SETTING — An arrangement of one or more standing stones. Use particularly for isolated recumbent stones, or where original form of monument unclear. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: STONE SETTING - STONE STORE — A building or area where stone is stored for industrial or agricultural use.
Search the NHLE for: STONE STORE - STONE TABLE — A table made of stone, found in streets, parks, etc.
Search the NHLE for: STONE TABLE - STONE WORKING SITE — A site where rough stone is processed, shaped, worked or formed into finished products.
Search the NHLE for: STONE WORKING SITE - STONEMASONS YARD — A complex, comprising a workshop and a storage yard, used by a stonemason.
Search the NHLE for: STONEMASONS YARD - STOP GATE — Pairs of canal gates (also called Brindley gates) designed to rapidly shut off a section of a canal to prevent flooding
Search the NHLE for: STOP GATE - STOP LINE — A notional line of resistance defined by anti tank obstacles, pillboxes and gun emplacements.
Search the NHLE for: STOP LINE - STOP LOCK — A lock at the end of one company's canal where it joins another company's canal.
Search the NHLE for: STOP LOCK - STORAGE BUILDING — A building used for the storage of equipment.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE BUILDING - STORAGE CLAMP — Large semi-subterranean feature often packed with straw for the storage of potatoes and other root crops.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE CLAMP - STORAGE DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage of goods or equipment.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE DEPOT - STORAGE FACILITY — Sites and buildings used for the storage or equipment, ordnance or vehicles. Use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE FACILITY - STORAGE PIT — A pit dug in the ground used to store meat, grain and other foodstuffs. A common feature of Iron Age farms.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE PIT - STORAGE TANK — Container for the storage of unspecified materials.
Search the NHLE for: STORAGE TANK - STOREHOUSE — A building in which goods or items are stored. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: STOREHOUSE - STOUP — A vessel to contain holy water located near the entrance of a church.
Search the NHLE for: STOUP - STOVE HOUSE — A component of salt works containing flues and drying areas where salt blocks are dried before being crushed and bagged.
Search the NHLE for: STOVE HOUSE - STOWE — A type of windlass for drawing up ore.
Search the NHLE for: STOWE - STREAM — A natural flow or current of water issuing from a source.
Search the NHLE for: STREAM - STREAMWORKS — A place where tin ore is washed using a stream as the water source.
Search the NHLE for: STREAMWORKS - STREET FURNITURE — Structures erected on or near a public highway.
Search the NHLE for: STREET FURNITURE - STREET LAMP — A light, often suspended from a lamp-post, to illuminate a street or road.
Search the NHLE for: STREET LAMP - STREET MARKET — A market consisting of stalls erected in the street and selling a variety of goods.
Search the NHLE for: STREET MARKET - STREET TRAMWAY — A track inlaid into the road surface of a street or road, on which tram cars run for the conveyance of passengers.
Search the NHLE for: STREET TRAMWAY - STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Strict Baptists, a sect who broke away from the Particular Baptists and kept up the practice of denying communion to non members after the union of General and Particular Baptists was formed in 1891.
Search the NHLE for: STRICT BAPTIST CHAPEL - STRIP FIELD — An area of agriculturally used land, which is divided into small, elongated, rectangular fields running parallel to each other.
Search the NHLE for: STRIP FIELD - STRIP LYNCHET — A terraced field usually found on hillsides. Comprising a flat strip of land, called the tread, and a steep, scarped lynchet or edge, called the riser.
Search the NHLE for: STRIP LYNCHET - STRONGPOINT — A fortifed position, often including fieldworks or defensive structures, designed to keep enemy forces engaged to allow reinforcements to be mobilized.
Search the NHLE for: STRONGPOINT - STRUCTURE — A construction of unknown function, either extant or implied by archaeological evidence. If known, use more specific type.
Search the NHLE for: STRUCTURE - STUD FARM — A farm where stallions and mares are kept for breeding.
Search the NHLE for: STUD FARM - STUDENTS UNION — A building used, as a meeting place and administration block, by an organization run for the benefit of students at a school, college or university.
Search the NHLE for: STUDENTS UNION - STUDIO HOUSE — A purpose-built residence for an artist, containing a studio.
Search the NHLE for: STUDIO HOUSE - STUDY CENTRE — A building that houses material that can be used to facilitate the study of a site, landscape or an historical event/period. Such centres are often found in close proximity to the sites and/or landscapes that they seek to encourage the study of.
Search the NHLE for: STUDY CENTRE - SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of an area enclosed by a ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier, where the barrier follows a circular course, but is not regularly laid out.
Search the NHLE for: SUB CIRCULAR ENCLOSURE - SUB REGIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT — A structure, often sited underground, from where it was intended to conduct the business of government in the event of nuclear war. Sub RSGs were introduced between the RSGs and local authorities to allow the RSGs to focus on strategic direction.
Search the NHLE for: SUB REGIONAL SEAT OF GOVERNMENT - SUBAQUEOUS TUNNEL — A man-made passageway, which is built through a sea- or riverbed.
Search the NHLE for: SUBAQUEOUS TUNNEL - SUBMARINE BASE — Coastal base for the docking, launch and maintenance of submarines.
Search the NHLE for: SUBMARINE BASE - SUBMARINE CABLE REPEATER STATION — A cable repeater station for the undersea telephone and telegraph cables. Repeater stations compensated for the inadequacies of 1920's and 30's equipment over long distances, by repeating the signal every 200 miles.
Search the NHLE for: SUBMARINE CABLE REPEATER STATION - SUBMARINE CABLE STATION — A building housing one end of an underwater telegraph cable.
Search the NHLE for: SUBMARINE CABLE STATION - SUBMARINE FOREST — A forest killed by rising sea-level. Nowadays only tree stumps survive.
Search the NHLE for: SUBMARINE FOREST - SUBMARINE MINE DEPOT — A complex of purpose-built or adapted buildings used for the maintenance, storage, assembly and control of sea mines and minefields.
Search the NHLE for: SUBMARINE MINE DEPOT - SUBMARINE TELEPHONE CABLE STATION — A telephone exchange housing one end of an underwater cable and used to send messages overseas.
Search the NHLE for: SUBMARINE TELEPHONE CABLE STATION - SUBMERGED LANDSCAPE — Former terrestrial landscape of any kind now submerged through erosion, as at Dunwich, or historical inundation processes, eg. post-glacial submersion of the North Sea landscape ("Doggerland").
Search the NHLE for: SUBMERGED LANDSCAPE - SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE — A monument consisting of an area enclosed by a ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier, where the barrier follows an almost rectangular course.
Search the NHLE for: SUBRECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE - SUBSCRIPTION HOSPITAL — A hospital where people would pay a subscription in order to recieve treatment when ill.
Search the NHLE for: SUBSCRIPTION HOSPITAL - SUBURB — A largely residential area on the outskirts of a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: SUBURB - SUBWAY — An underground passageway for cables, pipes and pedestrians to allow passage beneath an over ground obstacle.
Search the NHLE for: SUBWAY - SUCCAH — An ancillary building to a synagogue, used as a place of worship at the feast of the tabernacle.
Search the NHLE for: SUCCAH - SUGAR HOUSE — A sugar factory.
Search the NHLE for: SUGAR HOUSE - SUGAR REFINERY — A site where sugar beet was processed before being washed and dried to form granulated sugar.
Search the NHLE for: SUGAR REFINERY - SUGAR SILO — A building or structure used for the storage of sugar.
Search the NHLE for: SUGAR SILO - SUGAR WAREHOUSE — A building where sugar is stored.
Search the NHLE for: SUGAR WAREHOUSE - SULPHUR STORE — A building used for storing Sulphur, a highly inflammable chemical element used in the manufacture of matches, gunpowder and sulphuric acid. It is also used in bleaching, for vulcanizing rubber and as a disinfectant.
Search the NHLE for: SULPHUR STORE - SUMMERHOUSE — A building in a garden or park designed to provide a shady retreat from the heat of the sun.
Search the NHLE for: SUMMERHOUSE - SUNDAY SCHOOL — A school in which instruction is given on a Sunday, especially such a school for children connected with a parish or congregation.
Search the NHLE for: SUNDAY SCHOOL - SUNDIAL — A structure used to show the time of day by means of the sun shining on a 'gnomon', the shadow of which falls on the surface of the dial which is marked with a diagram showing the hours. Can be freestanding, usually on a pillar, or fixed to a building.
Search the NHLE for: SUNDIAL - SUNKEN GARDEN — An often secluded garden set below the level of surrounding ground, usually surrounded with terraces.
Search the NHLE for: SUNKEN GARDEN - SUNSHINE RECORDER — A glass sphere in a metal frame standing on a small pillar. A card is placed behind the sphere which focuses any sunlight, marking the card and thus indicating how many hours of sunlight there was on that day.
Search the NHLE for: SUNSHINE RECORDER - SUPER ROBINS HANGAR — An aircraft hangar designed to Air Ministry specification (drawing number 6910/43). Similar in design to the ROBINS AIRCRAFT HANGAR but larger.
Search the NHLE for: SUPER ROBINS HANGAR - SUPER ROBINS HANGAR (TYPE A) — An aircraft hangar designed to Air Ministry specifications (drawing number 2243/41). Constructed from prefabricated A-frames and clad in corrugated iron.
Search the NHLE for: SUPER ROBINS HANGAR (TYPE A) - SUPERMARKET — A large self-service store selling foods and some household goods.
Search the NHLE for: SUPERMARKET - SUPERPHOSPHATE FACTORY — A building or site where phosphorous-based fertilizers are produced by controlled chemical reactions.
Search the NHLE for: SUPERPHOSPHATE FACTORY - SUPPLY DEPOT — A building or site used for the storage and distribution of the essential logistical requirements of an armed force.
Search the NHLE for: SUPPLY DEPOT - SUPREME COURT — The highest judicial court where appeals can be heard and whose rulings are not subject to further review by another court.
Search the NHLE for: SUPREME COURT - SURGERY — A room or office at a general practitioners' or veterinary practice, where patients or animals are seen and medicine dispensed.
Search the NHLE for: SURGERY - SURVEY TOWER — A tower used for surveying, especially in civil engineering projects such as bridges.
Search the NHLE for: SURVEY TOWER - SUSPENSION BRIDGE — A bridge whose deck is hung from above by large cables, chains or pinned iron or steel bars hanging from towers.
Search the NHLE for: SUSPENSION BRIDGE - SWALLOW HOLE — An opening or cavity through which a stream or natural watercourse disappears underground.
Search the NHLE for: SWALLOW HOLE - SWANNERY — A place where swans are bred and reared.
Search the NHLE for: SWANNERY - SWANNERY POND — A pond located at or near a swannery.
Search the NHLE for: SWANNERY POND - SWEDENBORGIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of Emmanuel Swedenborg who believed he was the medium through which the New Jerusalem would be founded on earth. The church was formed in 1787.
Search the NHLE for: SWEDENBORGIAN CHAPEL - SWIMMING POOL — A large, manmade pool, usually lined with tiles, rubber or similar. Can be placed in the open air, eg. a LIDO, or built as part of a covered sports centre.
Search the NHLE for: SWIMMING POOL - SWING BRIDGE — A movable bridge that swings or rotates around a central pier, or one that is pivoted only at one end, to provide a passageway for navigation.
Search the NHLE for: SWING BRIDGE - SWING PIT — This is a pit used in the glass industry for the production of cylinder glass. The only surviving examle in England is at the Hartley Wood Glasworks, Sunderland. It is a feature of 19th century and later glassworks
Search the NHLE for: SWING PIT - SWISS COTTAGE — A chalet designed in the Swiss style, eg. Kenwood, London.
Search the NHLE for: SWISS COTTAGE - SWISS GARDEN — A garden with real or supposed Swiss features, including buildings and plantings.
Search the NHLE for: SWISS GARDEN - SWITCH HOUSE — Building housing switch gear to control electricity supply either to the National Grid, industrial or domestic premises.
Search the NHLE for: SWITCH HOUSE - SWORD FACTORY — A building or site used for the manufacture of swords.
Search the NHLE for: SWORD FACTORY - SYNAGOGUE — A place of worship for Jewish people.
Search the NHLE for: SYNAGOGUE - SYNODAL HALL — A building used as a meeting place by a synod, an assembly of the clergy.
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- TABLE TOMB — A type of tomb in the form of a slab raised on freestanding legs.
Search the NHLE for: TABLE TOMB - TACK ROOM — A room or building in which riding tackle is stored.
Search the NHLE for: TACK ROOM - TAIL RACE — A water channel leading from a water wheel.
Search the NHLE for: TAIL RACE - TAILINGS WORKS — A 19th century ore processing works which processed the waste material from a mine.
Search the NHLE for: TAILINGS WORKS - TAKE OFF STONE — A stone used to instruct a coachman to unhitch a horse, previously taken on to help pull the coach up a steep gradient.
Search the NHLE for: TAKE OFF STONE - TAKE-AWAY — An establishment for the preparation and selling of food to be consumed off the premises.
Search the NHLE for: TAKE-AWAY - TALLOW FACTORY — A building where tallow is produced, ie. solid animal fat that has been separated by heating, usually for making candles.
Search the NHLE for: TALLOW FACTORY - TANK — Armoured military vehicle with its own firepower, which operates on tracks for troop mobility over rough terrain. Some may be adapted, or purpose-built, to be amphibious, and may then be double-indexed as AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE.
Search the NHLE for: TANK - TANK FACTORY — A factory for the manufacture of military tanks.
Search the NHLE for: TANK FACTORY - TANK FURNACE — An enclosed furnace used for the continuous casting of plate glass.
Search the NHLE for: TANK FURNACE - TANK PARK — A site where tanks and armoured fighting vehicles can be stored.
Search the NHLE for: TANK PARK - TANK RAMP — An inclined plane built to allow tanks to be loaded and unloaded between rolling stock on the railway network and vehicular low loaders.
Search the NHLE for: TANK RAMP - TANK TRAP — Reinforced concrete blocks, walls or ditches designed to obstruct the progress of a tank or armoured vehicle.
Search the NHLE for: TANK TRAP - TANNERY — A manufacturing complex where the hides of animals are turned into leather, consisting of buildings for fleecing and drying, as well as treatment pits.
Search the NHLE for: TANNERY - TANNING PIT — A pit or tank containing chemicals for the preserving of animal hide.
Search the NHLE for: TANNING PIT - TAPE MILL — A mill used for the manufacture of narrow strips of woven fabric used in the closing or fixing of garments, or for binding the edges of fabric goods.
Search the NHLE for: TAPE MILL - TAPE SIZING WORKS — A building, usually part of a textile mill complex, where warp yarn is sized prior to weaving. Sizing is the application of a starch solution to warp threads to add strength and protection.
Search the NHLE for: TAPE SIZING WORKS - TAPESTRY MILL — A factory where tapestries were manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: TAPESTRY MILL - TAPESTRY WEAVING WORKSHOP — A workshop where tapestries were made.
Search the NHLE for: TAPESTRY WEAVING WORKSHOP - TAR HOUSE — A storehouse associated with rope manufacture (eg. in naval dockyards).
Search the NHLE for: TAR HOUSE - TAR TANK — A tank found on hop farms in which creosote was held, heated from below by a fire with a chimney. The ends of hop poles were dipped in the tar to prevent rotting in soil.
Search the NHLE for: TAR TANK - TAR WORKS — A site where tar is manufactured or combined with other substances to produce bitumen, for example.
Search the NHLE for: TAR WORKS - TARGET — Any structure or object, used for the purpose of practice shooting by aerial, seaborne or land mounted weapons.
Search the NHLE for: TARGET - TARGET RAILWAY — A miniature railway on which targets can be placed to provide moving targets on a firing range.
Search the NHLE for: TARGET RAILWAY - TARGET RANGE — An area of ground used for the testing of, and practicing with, weapons against fixed and moveable targets.
Search the NHLE for: TARGET RANGE - TAWING WORKS — A building or complex where soft skins are produced by tanning with alum.
Search the NHLE for: TAWING WORKS - TAXIWAY — A marked path along which aircraft taxi to or from a parking area, runway, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TAXIWAY - TEA GARDEN — Garden or open-air enclosure, usually connected to commercial premises, where tea and other refreshments are served to the public.
Search the NHLE for: TEA GARDEN - TEA HOUSE — A refreshment house in a public park or country house garden.
Search the NHLE for: TEA HOUSE - TEA ROOM — An establishment where tea and other non-alcoholic refreshments and light meals are served.
Search the NHLE for: TEA ROOM - TEA WAREHOUSE — A large building used to store tea.
Search the NHLE for: TEA WAREHOUSE - TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE — An educational institution for the training of teachers.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE - TEACHERS CENTRE — A building used by teachers for in-service training.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHERS CENTRE - TEACHERS HOUSE — The residence of a teacher, often on the site of a school.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHERS HOUSE - TEACHING HOSPITAL — A working hospital, often near or associated with a university, where doctors and nurses are trained.
Search the NHLE for: TEACHING HOSPITAL - TEAGLE — A crane or hoist within a building found mainly in the North of England. Can also refer to a projecting crane located above a loading slot.
Search the NHLE for: TEAGLE - TEAZLE DRYING HOUSE — A building used to dry teazle heads in. Teazles were used to raise the nap on cloth in teazle shops.
Search the NHLE for: TEAZLE DRYING HOUSE - TEAZLE SHOP — A building in which the fibres of new woollen cloth were raised by brushing with teazle heads.
Search the NHLE for: TEAZLE SHOP - TECHNICAL COLLEGE — A college where the applied sciences and the mechanical arts are taught.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNICAL COLLEGE - TECHNICAL LATRINE BLOCK (9026/41) — A standard latine block on RAF airfields.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNICAL LATRINE BLOCK (9026/41) - TECHNICAL SCHOOL — A school where the applied sciences and the mechanical arts are taught.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNICAL SCHOOL - TECHNICAL SITE — The area of a military base where engineering and maintenance functions are grouped.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNICAL SITE - TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — A building used by an organization or society instituted to promote technology through lectures, research, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE - TELECOMMUNICATION BUILDING — A building housing electrical or electronic equipment used for communicating over long distances. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TELECOMMUNICATION BUILDING - TELECOMMUNICATION STRUCTURE — Structures associated with telecommunications.
Search the NHLE for: TELECOMMUNICATION STRUCTURE - TELEGRAPH KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a telegraph keeper, associated with a telegraph station.
Search the NHLE for: TELEGRAPH KEEPERS COTTAGE - TELEGRAPH OFFICE — The main office of a telegraph company containing rows of tables set with Morse sounders, keys, relays and pigeon holes from where MORSE coded messages were transmitted and received and telegrams dispatched.
Search the NHLE for: TELEGRAPH OFFICE - TELEGRAPH POLE — A tall wooden pole used to support telegraph wires.
Search the NHLE for: TELEGRAPH POLE - TELEGRAPH STATION — One in a chain of stations with semaphore shutters and telescopes which could relay messages according to a planned code. Used from the 1790s by the British Admiralty to speed up communications from London to the ports of Deal, Portsmouth and Plymouth.
Search the NHLE for: TELEGRAPH STATION - TELEPHONE BOX — A freestanding public call box, containing a telephone and usually operated by inserting coins.
Search the NHLE for: TELEPHONE BOX - TELEPHONE EXCHANGE — An office or central station of a local telephone system where the various lines are brought to a central switchboard and communication between subscribers is achieved.
Search the NHLE for: TELEPHONE EXCHANGE - TELEPHONE REPEATER STATION — A building, similar in style to a telephone exchange but smaller. They were used to compensate for the inadequacies of 1920's and 30's equipment over long distances, by repeating the signal every 200 miles.
Search the NHLE for: TELEPHONE REPEATER STATION - TELEPHONE WORKS — A place where telephones and their components are manufactured
Search the NHLE for: TELEPHONE WORKS - TELESCOPE (CELESTIAL) — An optical instrument for making distant objects appear nearer and larger, usually found at an observatory, through which astronomical or meteorological phenomena may be observed.
Search the NHLE for: TELESCOPE (CELESTIAL) - TELESCOPE (TERRESTRIAL) — An optical instrument for making distant objects appear nearer and larger, often found on the promenade or pleasure pier at a seaside resort or at a site of scenic beauty.
Search the NHLE for: TELESCOPE (TERRESTRIAL) - TELESCOPE DOME — A dome shaped structure, with an aperture open to the sky, used to house a telescope.
Search the NHLE for: TELESCOPE DOME - TELESCOPIC BRIDGE — A bridge in which one leaf may be retracted in a horizontal plane, passing on rollers over or under the adjacent fixed leaf.
Search the NHLE for: TELESCOPIC BRIDGE - TELEVISION SET — Purpose built or modified structure or building used for scenery in a television program.
Search the NHLE for: TELEVISION SET - TELEVISION STUDIO — A building or series of rooms specially designed for the recording and transmission of live or taped television programmes.
Search the NHLE for: TELEVISION STUDIO - TEMPERANCE HALL — A meeting hall of the Temperance Society.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERANCE HALL - TEMPERANCE HOTEL — A hotel where no alcohol is available.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERANCE HOTEL - TEMPERANCE PUBLIC HOUSE — A public house where no alcohol is sold.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERANCE PUBLIC HOUSE - TEMPERATE HOUSE — A building with a regulated moderate temperature for the cultivation of plants.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPERATE HOUSE - TEMPLARS CAMERA — A residence used during short visits by an official and attendants of the Knights Templars for administrative purposes on their estates.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS CAMERA - TEMPLARS CHURCH — A church, sometimes circular in plan, founded by the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, commonly known as the Knights Templar.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS CHURCH - TEMPLARS GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, commonly known as the Knights Templars
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS GRANGE - TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY — The residence of a preceptor, officials and servants, etc, supervising the estates of the Knights Templars military order. Includes the mother house styled the Temple, London. The Order was suppressed in 1312.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLARS PRECEPTORY - TEMPLE — Use for places of worship. For later landscape features use, eg. GARDEN TEMPLE.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPLE - TEMPORARY BRIDGE — A type of bridge which was designed for temporary use and then capable of being moved to another site. Use for temporary bridges which have remained in situ since erection.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPORARY BRIDGE - TEMPORARY CAMP — A temporary overnight camp enclosed by a shallow ditch and palisade, constructed by Roman troops on campaigns or manoeuvres.
Search the NHLE for: TEMPORARY CAMP - TENANTS HALL — A communal room or building attached to flats.
Search the NHLE for: TENANTS HALL - TENEMENT — A parcel of land.
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT - TENEMENT BLOCK — Use for speculatively built 19th century "model dwellings", rather than those built by a philanthropic society.
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT BLOCK - TENEMENT FACTORY — A purpose-built factory for more than one occupier (eg. for several different workshops).
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT FACTORY - TENEMENT HOUSE — Originally built as a family house. Converted into flats during the 19th or 20th century.
Search the NHLE for: TENEMENT HOUSE - TENNIS CLUB — A site containing a tennis court, changing facilities and a club house.
Search the NHLE for: TENNIS CLUB - TENNIS COURT — A prepared area, traditionally grass, where tennis is played.
Search the NHLE for: TENNIS COURT - TENTER GROUND — Field or area of ground where washed new cloth is stretched out to dry.
Search the NHLE for: TENTER GROUND - TENTER POST — Posts with hooks attached to allow drying new cloth to be stretched out between them.
Search the NHLE for: TENTER POST - TERMINAL BUILDING — A building within a transport terminal, often associated with the registration and clearing of incoming and outgoing passengers or freight.
Search the NHLE for: TERMINAL BUILDING - TERMINUS STONE — To mark the end of a turnpike road.
Search the NHLE for: TERMINUS STONE - TERRACE — A row of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACE - TERRACED GARDEN — A garden with one or more platforms with walks, often on different levels, usually close to the house.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED GARDEN - TERRACED GROUND — An artificially raised level of ground.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED GROUND - TERRACED HOUSE — A house in a line of houses attached to and adjoining one another and planned and built as one unit.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED HOUSE - TERRACED LAWN — A raised lawn in a garden or park.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED LAWN - TERRACED WALK — A walk, common in 18th century gardens, providing a view across the surrounding countryside.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACED WALK - TERRACOTTA WORKS — A site where terracotta, made from weathered clay and grog, was manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: TERRACOTTA WORKS - TERRITORIAL ARMY CENTRE — A centre used by the Territorial Army, the volunteer reserve of the British army.
Search the NHLE for: TERRITORIAL ARMY CENTRE - TERRITORIAL ARMY HEADQUARTERS — A building used as headquarters by the Territorial Army, the volunteer reserve of the British army.
Search the NHLE for: TERRITORIAL ARMY HEADQUARTERS - TESSELLATED FLOOR — Floor cover in Roman time, where small cubes (tesserea) of one or more colours were laid in a geometric pattern.
Search the NHLE for: TESSELLATED FLOOR - TEST HOUSE — A building used for the testing of aircraft and aircraft engines.
Search the NHLE for: TEST HOUSE - TESTING RANGE — A site, containing installations and machinery, used for measuring the power of explosives.
Search the NHLE for: TESTING RANGE - TESTING TANK — A water-filled structure for experimental research.
Search the NHLE for: TESTING TANK - TETHERING POST — a wooden, metal or stone post used to tether a horse, or other animals.
Search the NHLE for: TETHERING POST - TETT TURRET — A small concrete turret placed on top of a standard 4 ft. diameter concrete pipe sunk into the ground. Intended for use in defending road junctions, airfields and beach exits.
Search the NHLE for: TETT TURRET - TEXTILE CONDITIONING HOUSE — Building for testing the condition and strength of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE CONDITIONING HOUSE - TEXTILE FINISHING SITE — Includes bleaching, dressing, dyeing and printing.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE FINISHING SITE - TEXTILE INDUSTRY SITE — Includes all stages of production process of textiles, eg. wool, cotton, linen, etc, and textile products. Use only for sites where there is evidence of textile manufacture but no specific monument type, otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE INDUSTRY SITE - TEXTILE MACHINERY WORKS — An engineering works that produces machinery specially for use in textile making.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE MACHINERY WORKS - TEXTILE MILL — Any factory used for the manufacture of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE MILL - TEXTILE PRINTING WORKS — A factory complex consisting of PRINTING SHOPS, COLOUR HOUSES, DYE HOUSES, etc, in which patterns are printed onto textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE PRINTING WORKS - TEXTILE WAREHOUSE — A large store for textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE WAREHOUSE - TEXTILE WORKERS COTTAGE — The residence of a person employed in the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE WORKERS COTTAGE - TEXTILE WORKSHOP — A workshop used in the manufacture and preparation of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: TEXTILE WORKSHOP - THEATRE — A building used primarily for the performing of plays.
Search the NHLE for: THEATRE - THEATRE STANDING — Platform or structure used for viewing performances.
Search the NHLE for: THEATRE STANDING - THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE — An establishment dedicated to the study of theology and religious training.
Search the NHLE for: THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE - THEOSOPHICAL COLLEGE — An establishment dedicated to the study of God and religion.
Search the NHLE for: THEOSOPHICAL COLLEGE - THERMAL BATHS — A building containing a number of areas for bathing, some of which are naturally heated by thermal springs.
Search the NHLE for: THERMAL BATHS - THOR MISSILE SITE — A missile base armed with the Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile. Thor Missiles were deployed in Britain under joint British/US control between 1959 and 1964.
Search the NHLE for: THOR MISSILE SITE - THRESHING BARN — A barn usually containing a single, central threshing floor.
Search the NHLE for: THRESHING BARN - THRESHING FLOOR — An area of a barn, paved or boarded, on which corn was threshed by hand flailing. Use broader site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: THRESHING FLOOR - THRESHING MILL — A mill which contains machinery for separating grain from the chaff.
Search the NHLE for: THRESHING MILL - THROUGH BRIDGE — A type of bridge which completely encloses the traffic using it.
Search the NHLE for: THROUGH BRIDGE - THROUGH BY LIGHT — A 'through' BACK TO BACK HOUSE - an interlocking L-shaped plan gave each house two street frontages, thus providing better lighting/ventilation.
Search the NHLE for: THROUGH BY LIGHT - THROWING HOUSE — A building in which pottery ware is made by shaping plastic clay on a spinning turntable, known as a potter's wheel or throwing wheel.
Search the NHLE for: THROWING HOUSE - THROWING MILL — A textile mill where thread undergoes the processes of twisting and doubling to provide material strong enough to be spun and woven.
Search the NHLE for: THROWING MILL - TIDAL BASIN — A basin or harbour, which is open to the tides. Vessels can only enter and leave at high tide and are stranded at low tide.
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL BASIN - TIDAL DOOR — A gate which allows water to pass into a dock, etc, at flood tide, and by which it is retained during the ebb tide.
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL DOOR - TIDAL LOCK — A double lock placed between tidal water and a canal, etc..
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL LOCK - TIDAL SWIMMING POOL — Manmade structure for bathing or swimming that is located on the beachfront and filled by tidal waters. Similar to a LIDO, with the main difference being the extent of the built up complex around the pool.
Search the NHLE for: TIDAL SWIMMING POOL - TIDE GAUGE — An instrument for measuring and indicating the height of tide.
Search the NHLE for: TIDE GAUGE - TIDE MILL — A type of WATERMILL, powered by retaining seawater at high tide and then releasing it at low tide via the water wheel.
Search the NHLE for: TIDE MILL - TILE BURIAL — An inhumation, usually Roman, which has been covered by tiles to form a tent-like structure over the body; the apex is covered by ridge tiles.
Search the NHLE for: TILE BURIAL - TILE KILN — A structure in which pottery tiles were baked.
Search the NHLE for: TILE KILN - TILE WORKS — A site used for all the processes associated with the manufacture of roof, floor or decorative tiles.
Search the NHLE for: TILE WORKS - TILEMAKING WORKSHOP — A place where ceramic tiles are manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: TILEMAKING WORKSHOP - TILT HAMMER — Early form of powered hammer, usually wooden, used primarily in the iron industry.
Search the NHLE for: TILT HAMMER - TILTYARD — A long, narrow yard used for jousting.
Search the NHLE for: TILTYARD - TILTYARD TOWER — A 16th century tower for observing tournaments, eg. at royal palaces.
Search the NHLE for: TILTYARD TOWER - TIMBER AVENUE — A monument consisting of parallel lines of spaced post- holes which appears to mark out an approach to another monument or monuments.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER AVENUE - TIMBER CIRCLE — Approximately circular or oval setting of spaced post holes indicating the former presence of a free-standing arrangement of upright timber posts. Often regarded as a wooden equivalent of the better known stone circles.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER CIRCLE - TIMBER FRAMED BARN — A barn which is constructed with a timber framework; between the members are panels which are infilled with timber, wattle and daub, plaster, brickwork, stone or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER FRAMED BARN - TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING — A building constructed with a basic timber framework; between the members are panels which can be infilled with timber, wattle and daub, plaster, brick or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER FRAMED BUILDING - TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE — A house constructed with a basic timber framework; between the members are panels which can be infilled with timber, wattle and daub, plaster, brick or other materials.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE - TIMBER MARKET — A place where processed wood is sold.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER MARKET - TIMBER MILL — A mill used to process raw timber.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER MILL - TIMBER POND — Pond for storing cut lengths of timber to prevent them becoming seasoned.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER POND - TIMBER PROCESSING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the processing of timber.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER PROCESSING SITE - TIMBER PRODUCT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the manufacture of timber products.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER PRODUCT SITE - TIMBER SEASONING SHED — A building where timber was allowed to dry and harden, to render it fit for use as a working material.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER SEASONING SHED - TIMBER YARD — An open yard or place where timber is stacked or stored.
Search the NHLE for: TIMBER YARD - TIMEBALL TOWER — A structure for visually communicating the exact time to ships in anchorage. A ball slides down a mast at the top of the tower, usually at noon or one o'clock exactly.
Search the NHLE for: TIMEBALL TOWER - TIMEKEEPERS OFFICE — A room or building occupied by a person employed to keep accounts of workers' hours of labour.
Search the NHLE for: TIMEKEEPERS OFFICE - TIN MILL — A mill used for the processing of tin ore by crazing, stamping or smelting.
Search the NHLE for: TIN MILL - TIN MINE — A mine used for the extraction on tin bearing ore.
Search the NHLE for: TIN MINE - TIN WORKS — A site where tin ore is extracted from suspended fire waste in tin mine spoil heaps.
Search the NHLE for: TIN WORKS - TINNERS CACHE — A crude, stone built structure, often roofless, used by tin miners to store equipment.
Search the NHLE for: TINNERS CACHE - TINNERS HUT — A small dwelling providing living accommodation for a tin miner.
Search the NHLE for: TINNERS HUT - TIRONIAN ALIEN CELL — A residence of two or three monks of the Order of Tiron dependent on a foreign mother house.
Search the NHLE for: TIRONIAN ALIEN CELL - TIRONIAN GRANGE — An outlying farm or estate belonging to the Order of Tiron.
Search the NHLE for: TIRONIAN GRANGE - TIRONIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory belonging to the Tironian order.
Search the NHLE for: TIRONIAN MONASTERY - TITHE BARN — A large barn used to store the tithe (a tenth part of the annual produce of agriculture etc.) which was paid by the tenants of ecclesiastical lands.
Search the NHLE for: TITHE BARN - TOBACCO FACTORY — A place where tobacco is made into cigarettes, cigars, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TOBACCO FACTORY - TOBACCO WAREHOUSE — A building designed specifically for handling tobacco. This may be a bonded warehouse containing facilities for removing tobacco leaves from the hogsheads in which they were imported, and pressing them.
Search the NHLE for: TOBACCO WAREHOUSE - TOFT — The place where a house stood or had once stood, often adjoining a garth or croft.
Search the NHLE for: TOFT - TOILET — A small room or building containing a lavatory and, in more recent times, washing facilities.
Search the NHLE for: TOILET - TOLL BOARD — A sign, situated near a road or bridge, indicating a toll.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL BOARD - TOLL BOUNDARY MARKER — A marker, of stone, wood or metal, used to delineate the limits of a stretch of highway, river or canal subject to a toll charge.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL BOUNDARY MARKER - TOLL BRIDGE — A bridge whose upkeep and repair was financed by the exaction of a toll.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL BRIDGE - TOLL GATE — A gate on a toll road where travellers had to pay a toll to the toll-keeper.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL GATE - TOLL HOUSE — A house by a toll gate or toll bridge where tolls are collected.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL HOUSE - TOLL ROAD — A road whose upkeep and repair was financed by the exaction of a toll.
Search the NHLE for: TOLL ROAD - TOLLBOOTH — A booth, shed or stall erected at the side of a road, canal, bridge or gate where a toll must be paid.
Search the NHLE for: TOLLBOOTH - TOLUENE WORKS — A chemical works engaged in the production or refining of toluene, a substance extracted from coal tar or specific types of crude oil, and used in the production of explosives during WW1.
Search the NHLE for: TOLUENE WORKS - TOMB — A grave or sepulchre including a monument. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TOMB - TOMBSTONE — A horizontal stone placed across a grave.
Search the NHLE for: TOMBSTONE - TOPIARY AVENUE — A tree-lined way or approach where the trees have been cut into various forms and shapes.
Search the NHLE for: TOPIARY AVENUE - TOPIARY GARDEN — A garden containing trees or shrubs pruned and trained into various geometric, zoomorphic or fantastic shapes.
Search the NHLE for: TOPIARY GARDEN - TOPSHOP — An attic workshop for textile manufacture, usually weaving.
Search the NHLE for: TOPSHOP - TOR CAIRN — A circular bank of stones and turf, sometimes accompanied by a ditch, surrounding a natural outcrop of rock, usually a tor, or an earthfast boulder.
Search the NHLE for: TOR CAIRN - TOR ENCLOSURE — A large hilltop or hillslope enclosure in South West England, located close to rock outcrops, and surrounded by one or more circuits of stone built walls. All are prehistoric; some are definitely Neolithic.
Search the NHLE for: TOR ENCLOSURE - TORPEDO RANGE — A designated area of water in which the perfromance of torpedoes can be evaluated.
Search the NHLE for: TORPEDO RANGE - TORPEDO RANGE CONTROL BUILDING — A building from which the firing of torpedoes can be controlled and evaluated.
Search the NHLE for: TORPEDO RANGE CONTROL BUILDING - TORPEDO STATION — A land based establishment armed with torpedoes and used to defend the coast from enemy shipping.
Search the NHLE for: TORPEDO STATION - TOTALISATOR — A mechanically operated display board used in greyhound racing, which showed the state of the Tote, or cumulative betting on individual greyhounds.
Search the NHLE for: TOTALISATOR - TOURNAMENT FIELD — A training ground and fighting arena for knightly sports.
Search the NHLE for: TOURNAMENT FIELD - TOW PATH — A path running by the side of a canal or navigable river for use in towing vessels.
Search the NHLE for: TOW PATH - TOWER — A tall building, either round, square or polygonal in plan, used for a variety of purposes, including defence, as a landmark, for the hanging of bells, industrial functions, etc. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER - TOWER BLOCK — A tall, multi storeyed building either used as business premises or, more usually, as residential accomodation.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER BLOCK - TOWER HOUSE — A multi-storey, fortified hall house with one of the crosswings being raised in the form of a crenellated tower. Permanently occupied, they date from the mid 14th to the 17th century and are found mainly in the border counties of the North of England.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER HOUSE - TOWER KEEP — A fortified keep in the form of a tower, used as a last refuge or defence. If a component of a larger site, use KEEP.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER KEEP - TOWER MILL — A windmill with a rotating cap containing the windshaft, and a stationary body in the form of a tower.
Search the NHLE for: TOWER MILL - TOWING PATH BRIDGE — A bridge which takes a towing path over a branch canal, basin, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TOWING PATH BRIDGE - TOWN — An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN - TOWN CROSS — A cross erected within a town, usually funded by the inhabitants.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN CROSS - TOWN DEFENCES — Defensive fortifications such as ramparts, ditches and stone walls, built to defend a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN DEFENCES - TOWN DITCH — A ditch constructed to surround a town for defensive purposes.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN DITCH - TOWN GATE — A highly defensible gateway, usually of stone with two or more storeys, built into the defensive walls of a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN GATE - TOWN HALL — A large building used for the transaction of the public business of a town, the holding of courts of justice, entertainments and other activities.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN HALL - TOWN HOUSE — A gentry house in a town or city, either detached or in a terrace.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN HOUSE - TOWN QUARTER — A core part of a town or city that has or had a particular set of characteristics; for example an area of high status residences or an area where a particular industry/trade was centred.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN QUARTER - TOWN WALL — A fortified wall surrounding a town or city.
Search the NHLE for: TOWN WALL - TOWNSHIP — Cluster of dwellings of medieval or later date (Scots)
Search the NHLE for: TOWNSHIP - TOWNSHIP BOUNDARY — The limit line of a township.
Search the NHLE for: TOWNSHIP BOUNDARY - TOWPATH TUNNEL — A canal tunnel built with one or more integral towpaths
Search the NHLE for: TOWPATH TUNNEL - TOY FACTORY — A factory that manufactures toys.
Search the NHLE for: TOY FACTORY - TRACKWAY — A pathway, not necessarily designed as such, beaten down by the feet of travellers.
Search the NHLE for: TRACKWAY - TRACTION STEAM ENGINE — Small mobile steam engine.
Search the NHLE for: TRACTION STEAM ENGINE - TRADE HALL — A meeting hall, or sale room in a town, for manufacturers and traders.
Search the NHLE for: TRADE HALL - TRADE SCHOOL — A school where handicrafts are taught.
Search the NHLE for: TRADE SCHOOL - TRADES UNION BUILDING — A building where the administrative functions of a Trade Union are carried on.
Search the NHLE for: TRADES UNION BUILDING - TRADES UNION HALL — A hall used by the members of a trade union for meetings and social functions.
Search the NHLE for: TRADES UNION HALL - TRADING SETTLEMENT — A settlement used for trading.
Search the NHLE for: TRADING SETTLEMENT - TRAFFIC LIGHTS — A mechanical device consisting of a system of signal lights operating in sequence, placed at road intersections and pedestrian crossings to regulate traffic.
Search the NHLE for: TRAFFIC LIGHTS - TRAIN SHED — A canopy or building to cover the platforms in a railway station.
Search the NHLE for: TRAIN SHED - TRAINING AREA — A designated area of land, usually closed to the public, used for military exercises and training purposes.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING AREA - TRAINING BASE — A military base used for training service personnel.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING BASE - TRAINING CAMP — A military camp providing training facilities.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING CAMP - TRAINING CENTRE — A place where specific skills are taught on short courses.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING CENTRE - TRAINING COLLEGE — A college where specialist skills, relating to a particular subject, are taught. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING COLLEGE - TRAINING SCHOOL — A school where specialist skills, relating to a particular subject, are taught. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING SCHOOL - TRAINING SCHOOL WATCH OFFICE — Based on a typical 18ft span, 40ft long temporary brick hut but with two bay windows in the front elevation, one for the watch office and one for the chief instructor.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING SCHOOL WATCH OFFICE - TRAINING SCHOOL WATCH OFFICE (641/41) — Based on a typical 18ft span, 40ft long temporary brick hut but with two bay windows in the front elevation, one for the watch office and one for the chief instructor.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING SCHOOL WATCH OFFICE (641/41) - TRAINING STRUCTURE — An undefined structure used in the training of people in a certain skill.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING STRUCTURE - TRAINING WALL (WATER REGULATION) — A wall structure built to direct a current into the desired channel in a harbour, river etc.
Search the NHLE for: TRAINING WALL (WATER REGULATION) - TRAM DEPOT — A place where trams are maintained and refitted, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM DEPOT - TRAM SHED — A building for the housing of trams.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM SHED - TRAM SHELTER — A structure providing protection against the weather at tram stops.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM SHELTER - TRAM TRANSFORMER STATION — A building housing transformers to convert AC electricity supply to DC supply for use by tramcars.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM TRANSFORMER STATION - TRAM TURNTABLE — A mechanism used to turn a tram around.
Search the NHLE for: TRAM TURNTABLE - TRAMWAY — A track inlaid into a surface, on which tram cars run for the conveyance of passengers and/or goods or raw materials.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY - TRAMWAY BRIDGE — A bridge carrying a tramway.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY BRIDGE - TRAMWAY EMBANKMENT — An embankment of earth alongside a tramway.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY EMBANKMENT - TRAMWAY REVERSING TRIANGLE — A structure consisting of three stretches of tramline joined by points. The tram is able to go forward, reverse and then go forward again changing line each time until it has turned around completely.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY REVERSING TRIANGLE - TRAMWAY STABLE — A stable associated with a horse-drawn tramway system.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY STABLE - TRAMWAY TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with tramway transport.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY TRANSPORT SITE - TRAMWAY TUNNEL — A tunnel through which a tramway runs.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY TUNNEL - TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL — The entrance to a tramway tunnel.
Search the NHLE for: TRAMWAY TUNNEL PORTAL - TRANSFORMER BOX — A device for converting one voltage of alternating current to another voltage.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSFORMER BOX - TRANSFORMER PILLAR — A pillar housing a transformer to convert AC electricity supply, for use by electrified transport systems or for domestic purposes.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSFORMER PILLAR - TRANSFORMER STATION — A building housing transformers to convert AC electricity supply for domestic use.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSFORMER STATION - TRANSHUMANCE DWELLING — A house or shelter used by drovers, herders or shepherds during the seasonal moving of livestock from the highlands to the lowlands. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSHUMANCE DWELLING - TRANSIT SHED — A type of warehouse, usually one-storeyed.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSIT SHED - TRANSIT TELESCOPE — A telescope which is mounted so as to allow the observation of only those objects in the sky which are passing over a local meridian, an event known as transit.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSIT TELESCOPE - TRANSMISSION RODS — The line of a flat rod system transmitting power from an engine or waterwheel.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSMISSION RODS - TRANSMITTER SITE — A site, including buildings and structures, from which communication signals are transmitted.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSMITTER SITE - TRANSPORT — Sites, buildings, structures & features related to the conveyance of goods &/or passengers. Includes man-made routeways, mechanical structures & some vehicle types where it is deemed necessary to record such as monuments.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT - TRANSPORT OFFICE — The administrative office of a transport company who provide a service for the conveyance and transportation of either goods or people.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT OFFICE - TRANSPORT TUNNEL — Sites and structures used for the transportation of goods and people under roads and rivers, or through hills, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT TUNNEL - TRANSPORT WAREHOUSE — A large building, situated by or near a dock, canal, road or railway and used for the temporary storage of goods or merchandise awaiting transportation.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT WAREHOUSE - TRANSPORT WORKERS HOUSE — The residences of people involved in transport work.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORT WORKERS HOUSE - TRANSPORTER BRIDGE — A bridge consisting of a lattice girder spanning the distance between the tops of two towers. Designed to transport vehicles across the gap in a container suspended at road level by ropes under a travelling crane on the girder.
Search the NHLE for: TRANSPORTER BRIDGE - TRAP HOUSE — A building, similar to a cart shed, but used to house traps, gigs and coaches.
Search the NHLE for: TRAP HOUSE - TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE — An area of land, roughly shaped like a trapezoid and enclosed by a boundary ditch, bank, wall, palisade or similar barrier.
Search the NHLE for: TRAPEZOIDAL ENCLOSURE - TRAVEL AGENTS — A commercial premises offering advice on destinations and other travel arrangements, and where travellers may purchase flights,make hotel reservations or book package holidays and tours.
Search the NHLE for: TRAVEL AGENTS - TRAVELLING CRANE — A crane, located in an engineering workshop or similar establishment, which can be moved on rails and thus used anywhere within the workshop.
Search the NHLE for: TRAVELLING CRANE - TRAVELLING OVERHEAD CRANE — A crane suspended from running rails in the roof of an engineering workshop or similar establishment.
Search the NHLE for: TRAVELLING OVERHEAD CRANE - TRAVERSER — A platform which moves laterally on wheels, by which boats, railway carriages and engines may be moved from one place to another, eg. from one slipway to another parallel to it.
Search the NHLE for: TRAVERSER - TREADMILL — A structure for producing power through a rotary motion achieved by the weight of men or animals treading on a succession of moving steps or a belt that forms a kind of continuous path.
Search the NHLE for: TREADMILL - TREADWHEEL — A wheel rotated by the treading of persons or animals to power machinery to raise water, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TREADWHEEL - TREADWHEEL CRANE — A crane powered by a treadwheel and used for lifting and lowering, dating from the Roman period. Also used in later periods to assist on building sites, at mines and in ports.
Search the NHLE for: TREADWHEEL CRANE - TREASURERS HOUSE — A house provided for the treasurer of a cathedral, palace or similar.
Search the NHLE for: TREASURERS HOUSE - TREASURY — A free-standing building or a room used as a storage place for valuable objects.
Search the NHLE for: TREASURY - TREE AVENUE — A straight road lined with trees along either side, also straight lines of trees found in parkland usually leading to a landscape feature.
Search the NHLE for: TREE AVENUE - TREE BELT — An alignment of trees planted as part of a designed landscape. For a belt lining a road use TREE AVENUE.
Search the NHLE for: TREE BELT - TREE CATHEDRAL — Trees, hedges and shrubs planted in the form of a medieval cathedral sometimes used as a memorial.
Search the NHLE for: TREE CATHEDRAL - TREE CLUMP — A group of trees planted as part of a designed landscape.
Search the NHLE for: TREE CLUMP - TREE ENCLOSURE RING — A circular bank in which trees have been planted for ornamental purposes or to create an enclosure. May exist purely as a bank which has been formed over the stumps of the trees which had been planted to form the enclosure.
Search the NHLE for: TREE ENCLOSURE RING - TREE HOUSE — Ornamental garden building constructed within the branches of trees.
Search the NHLE for: TREE HOUSE - TREE MOUND — An earthen mound, usually within an ornamental garden, on which a tree was planted.
Search the NHLE for: TREE MOUND - TREE RING — Trees planted in an ornamental circle. For earthwork surrounding trees use TREE ENCLOSURE RING.
Search the NHLE for: TREE RING - TREE THROW — A bowl-shaped cavity or depression created in the subsoil by the long term presence and growth of tree roots or when a large tree is blown over or has its stump pulled out.
Search the NHLE for: TREE THROW - TREE TRUNK COFFIN — A prehistoric coffin made out of a hollow tree trunk.
Search the NHLE for: TREE TRUNK COFFIN - TRELLIS — A framework used as a support upon which fruit-trees or climbing plants are trained.
Search the NHLE for: TRELLIS - TRENCH — An excavation used as a means of concealment, protection or both.
Search the NHLE for: TRENCH - TRI RADIAL CAIRN — Starshaped cairn with three radial arms of equal length, a monument unique to upland Northumberland. (Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age).
Search the NHLE for: TRI RADIAL CAIRN - TRIAL LEVEL — Vertical or horizontal levels driven into a hill slope to assess the viability of mineral resources but never fully exploited.
Search the NHLE for: TRIAL LEVEL - TRIANGULATION PILLAR — A purpose-built triangulation pillar used for the metrical survey of Britain carried out by the Ordnance Survey.
Search the NHLE for: TRIANGULATION PILLAR - TRIANGULATION POINT — A purpose-built triangulation point used for the metrical survey of Britain carried out by the Ordnance Survey.
Search the NHLE for: TRIANGULATION POINT - TRIBUNAL (MILITARY) — A raised platform from which an officer can address or review his troops.
Search the NHLE for: TRIBUNAL (MILITARY) - TRICK FOUNTAIN — An automata or water device which surprises the unwary onlooker with water. A feature of 16th and 17th century gardens.
Search the NHLE for: TRICK FOUNTAIN - TRILITHON — A structure composed of two large upright stone supporting a third, lintel stone.
Search the NHLE for: TRILITHON - TRIM TRAIL — An outdoor trail that has keep fit equipment with supporting information plaques intermittently positioned along its route
Search the NHLE for: TRIM TRAIL - TRINITARIAN MONASTERY — An abbey or priory of the Trinitarian brethren also named Maturins.
Search the NHLE for: TRINITARIAN MONASTERY - TRINITROTOLUENE FACTORY — A factory or works principally engaged in the refining or manufacture of TNT.
Search the NHLE for: TRINITROTOLUENE FACTORY - TRIPE BOILING SHOP — Workshop used in the the production of tripe.
Search the NHLE for: TRIPE BOILING SHOP - TRIUMPHAL ARCH — A large free-standing arch erected to commemorate a triumph or victory.
Search the NHLE for: TRIUMPHAL ARCH - TROLLEYBUS TURNTABLE — A mechanism used to turn a trolleybus around.
Search the NHLE for: TROLLEYBUS TURNTABLE - TROPHY — A monument erected as a permanent reminder of a military victory. The design usually includes images of the spoils of the battle.
Search the NHLE for: TROPHY - TROUGH — A narrow, open container, usually where food or water for animals is put. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TROUGH - TRUSS BRIDGE — A bridge made up of many relatively small members joined together in a series of interconnecting triangles.
Search the NHLE for: TRUSS BRIDGE - TUBE CALCINER — A calciner commonly used between 1870 and circa 1900 for extracting arsenic from mined ores and featuring a slightly inclined rotating iron tube with a firebox at the bottom and an ore feed at the top.
Search the NHLE for: TUBE CALCINER - TUBE MILL — A plant used for the manufacture of tubes and tubing, from wrought iron or steel.
Search the NHLE for: TUBE MILL - TUBERCULOSIS CHALET — A small detached building used to accommodate patients with tuberculosis.
Search the NHLE for: TUBERCULOSIS CHALET - TUDOR GARDEN — A 19th century Tudor revival garden.
Search the NHLE for: TUDOR GARDEN - TUFTING MACHINERY WORKS — An engineering works that produces tufting machinery especially for use in the manufacturing of carpets.
Search the NHLE for: TUFTING MACHINERY WORKS - TUMBLING WEIR — An outfall from a canal, river or reservoir.
Search the NHLE for: TUMBLING WEIR - TUNGSTEN MINE — A mine used for the extraction of tungsten bearing ore. Use with other mineral ores extracted and MINE, eg. TIN MINE.
Search the NHLE for: TUNGSTEN MINE - TUNNEL — An underground channel with a vaulted roof. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL - TUNNEL ARBOUR — An extended arbour, eg. the beech arbour at Hampton Court, Middlesex.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL ARBOUR - TUNNEL CHAMBER — A large space in an underground tunnel, usually wider than the tunnel itself, used for storage, etc.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL CHAMBER - TUNNEL KILN — A lime kiln in which coal is burnt, as distinct from a flame-free kiln in which wood or peat is used.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL KILN - TUNNEL PORTAL — The entrance to a tunnel. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: TUNNEL PORTAL - TURBARY STONE — A marker stone used to demarcate the boundaries of peat cutting grounds and indicate who held the rights for each particular parcel of land.
Search the NHLE for: TURBARY STONE - TURBINE — A rotary prime mover. Turbines may be steam, water or gas operated.
Search the NHLE for: TURBINE - TURBINE HOUSE — A building housing a turbine.
Search the NHLE for: TURBINE HOUSE - TURBINE MILL — A mill which is powered by a turbine.
Search the NHLE for: TURBINE MILL - TURF CUTTING — An area of shallow linear cuts made by the removal of turf for fuel or building material.
Search the NHLE for: TURF CUTTING - TURF MAZE — A labyrinthine garden feature, common during the 16th and 17th centuries, created by cutting shallow pathways into deep lawns.
Search the NHLE for: TURF MAZE - TURF PARTERRE — A parterre consisting of an area of turf often with a pattern cut into it.
Search the NHLE for: TURF PARTERRE - TURF STACK — A structure used to dry turf on. Turves were used as a fuel and as a roofing material.
Search the NHLE for: TURF STACK - TURFED SEAT — Seats or benches covered in turf, built against a wall, tree or fountain, were a common feature of medieval enclosed gardens.
Search the NHLE for: TURFED SEAT - TURFED STEPS — Garden steps covered in turf.
Search the NHLE for: TURFED STEPS - TURKISH BATHS — A hot steam bath introduced from the East, in which heavy perspiration is followed by soaping, washing, massage and cooling.
Search the NHLE for: TURKISH BATHS - TURNERS CURVED ASBESTOS HUT — A prefabricated structure consisting of six curved asbestos cement sheets that were bolted together, without a frame, creating a hut semi-circular in section. Used on airfields during WWII and manufactured from 1942 by the Turner Asbestos Company.
Search the NHLE for: TURNERS CURVED ASBESTOS HUT - TURNING CIRCLE — Mechanism for turning around vehicles in a confined space.
Search the NHLE for: TURNING CIRCLE - TURNING SHOP — A workshop used for completing the shape of a product or part by turning on a lathe or wheel.
Search the NHLE for: TURNING SHOP - TURNSTILE — A barrier which rotates on an axis and is usually so arranged as to allow a person to pass through an opening only in one direction.
Search the NHLE for: TURNSTILE - TURPENTINE FACTORY — A place in which turpentine is produced.
Search the NHLE for: TURPENTINE FACTORY - TURRET — A small tower or bartizan, which was often placed at the angles of a castle, to increase the flanking ability, some only serving as corner buttresses. Also used to describe the small rectangular towers situated between the milecastles along Hadrians Wall.
Search the NHLE for: TURRET - TURRET INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING — An airfield building housing a turret gunnery trainer used to teach air gunners how to report the correct position of enemy aircraft by practising shooting against projected moving images of enemy aircraft displayed on a target screen (WWII).
Search the NHLE for: TURRET INSTRUCTIONAL BUILDING - TWEED MILL — A factory where tweed, a twilled woollen fabric with an unfinished surface, is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: TWEED MILL - TWIST MILL — A mill in which strands of yarn are twisted together to produce a strong thread with a uniform thickness.
Search the NHLE for: TWIST MILL - TYNESIDE FLAT — A distinctive form of terrace found in the northeast consisting of a long, two storey terrace indistinguishable from a conventional house externally, save that each unit has two front doors, one leading to a separate dwelling or dwellings upstairs.
Search the NHLE for: TYNESIDE FLAT
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- UMBER WORKINGS — A place where umber or oxide of iron and manganese, is extracted from an open cast mine.
Search the NHLE for: UMBER WORKINGS - UMBRELLA AND CANE WORKS — A building or complex producing umbrellas, parasols and canes.
Search the NHLE for: UMBRELLA AND CANE WORKS - UNASSIGNED — Sites, buildings, structures, features & areas of land, both natural & man-made, which cannot be assigned to a particular class (for example, railings).
Search the NHLE for: UNASSIGNED - UNDERBRIDGE — A bridge crossing under railway property.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERBRIDGE - UNDERCROFT — A vault or crypt under a church or chapel. Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERCROFT - UNDERGROUND CAR PARK — A car park situated beneath the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND CAR PARK - UNDERGROUND GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS — A secure, bomb-proof, undergound complex designed to be used by the government in the event of a national emergency such as nuclear war. Usually equipped with communications equipment, emergency rations and water and air filtering plants.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTERS - UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL — A hospital which has been built either wholly, or partially, underground in order to protect it from attacks by enemy aircraft.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL - UNDERGROUND MILITARY HEADQUARTERS — An underground bomb-proof structure used as a command centre for military operations.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND MILITARY HEADQUARTERS - UNDERGROUND MONITORING POST — A small underground chamber from where it was intended to monitor radioactive fallout in the event of nuclear attack. The majority were built between 1956 and 1964, although construction continued into the early 1970s.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND MONITORING POST - UNDERGROUND RAILWAY — A railway which runs beneath the surface of the ground, eg. the London Underground Railway.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND RAILWAY - UNDERGROUND RAILWAY STATION — A stopping place on an underground railway system where passengers can board and disembark from a train.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND RAILWAY STATION - UNDERGROUND RAILWAY TUNNEL — A tunnel carrying a railway beneath the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND RAILWAY TUNNEL - UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE — A constructed space beneath the surface of the ground.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE - UNDERPASS — A section of road that provides a passage beneath another road or railway.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERPASS - UNDERSHOT WHEEL — A waterwheel where the inflow of water strikes the paddles or floatboards well below the axis of the wheel, ie. the water more or less passes under it.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERSHOT WHEEL - UNDERWATER DIVING FEATURE — Feature, typically a ship, boat, aircraft or vehicle, deliberately sunk for recreational and diver educational purposes in inland bodies of water used as dive centres, such as lakes and water-filled quarries, or offshore as artificial reefs.
Search the NHLE for: UNDERWATER DIVING FEATURE - UNENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT — A settlement with evidence for several hut circles but clearly lacking an obvious boundary. Where it is not certain whether a boundary existed or not, use HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT. Characteristic of the later prehistoric period.
Search the NHLE for: UNENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT - UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT — A settlement without any obvious evidence for a boundary. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT - UNION ROOM — Area in a brewery used for the production of beer by the Burton Union method.
Search the NHLE for: UNION ROOM - UNITARIAN CHAPEL — A place of worship for Unitarians, a movement which does not believe in the Trinity but only in the Unity of Christ. Christ was to them just an exalted human teacher.
Search the NHLE for: UNITARIAN CHAPEL - UNITED METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the United Methodists Church, a group formed in 1907 by the amalgamation of the United Methodist Free Church, the Methodist New Connection and the Bible Christians.
Search the NHLE for: UNITED METHODIST CHAPEL - UNITED METHODIST FREE CHAPEL — A place of worship for members of the United Methodist Free Church. Formed in 1857 by the amalgamation of the Methodist Reform Church and the Wesleyan Association they later became part of the United Methodist Church in 1907.
Search the NHLE for: UNITED METHODIST FREE CHAPEL - UNITED REFORMED CHURCH — A place of worship for members of the United Reformed Church, a group formed in 1972 by the amalgamation of most of the Congregational Churches in England and Wales with the Presbyterian Church in England.
Search the NHLE for: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH - UNIVALLATE HILLFORT — A hilltop enclosure bounded by a single rampart, usually accompanied by a ditch.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVALLATE HILLFORT - UNIVERSITY — A group of colleges and associated buildings belonging to a university.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE — An office where the administrative duties of a university are performed.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — A college associated with, or forming part of, a university.
Search the NHLE for: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE - UPDRAUGHT KILN — A type of pottery oven in which the air passes from the base of the kiln out through the top.
Search the NHLE for: UPDRAUGHT KILN - UPHOLSTERY SHOWROOM — A building or room used for the exhibition of upholstery for sale.
Search the NHLE for: UPHOLSTERY SHOWROOM - UPHOLSTERY WAREHOUSE — A large warehouse or store for upholstery.
Search the NHLE for: UPHOLSTERY WAREHOUSE - UPHOLSTERY WORKS — A factory or building where furniture is upholstered.
Search the NHLE for: UPHOLSTERY WORKS - URANIUM MINE — A mine used for the extraction of uranium bearing ores.
Search the NHLE for: URANIUM MINE - URANIUM PROCESSING PLANT — Plant for the processing of uranium ores, such as pitchblende. Uranium is the principal extract, but radium may also be recovered as a by-product
Search the NHLE for: URANIUM PROCESSING PLANT - URANIUM WORKS — Buildings associated with the extaction of uranium from its pitchblende or copper ores.
Search the NHLE for: URANIUM WORKS - URBAN SPACE — Areas within the urban environment with their surfaces open to the sky, that have been consciously acquired or publicly regulated to serve urban shaping function, in addition others may provide recreational opportunities.
Search the NHLE for: URBAN SPACE - URN — A garden ornament, usually of stone or metal, designed in the the form of a vase used to receive the ashes of the dead.
Search the NHLE for: URN - URNFIELD — A village cemetery where cinerary urns were buried in large numbers during the Bronze Age.
Search the NHLE for: URNFIELD - UTOPIAN COMMUNITY VILLAGE — A model village built by a utopian society or group of artists.
Search the NHLE for: UTOPIAN COMMUNITY VILLAGE
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- VACCARY — A monastic cattle ranch with associated buildings, paddocks and pastures.
Search the NHLE for: VACCARY - VALLUM — A flat bottomed ditch flanked by mounds running to the south of Hadrian's Wall for much of its length, marking the boundary of the military zone.
Search the NHLE for: VALLUM - VALVE HOUSE — A small building housing a valve which controls the flow within a water regulation system.
Search the NHLE for: VALVE HOUSE - VALVE TOWER — An iron, stone or concrete tower built up from the bed of a reservoir. From it the control valves of the pipes which draw off water at different levels are operated.
Search the NHLE for: VALVE TOWER - VANTAGE POINT — A position or place that allows a wide or favourable overall view of a scene or situation.
Search the NHLE for: VANTAGE POINT - VARNISH FACTORY — A factory in which varnish is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: VARNISH FACTORY - VASE — A large, decorative garden ornament resembling a vase.
Search the NHLE for: VASE - VAT HALL — A building, or room within a brewery, where beer or cider undergoes fermentation in vats or tuns.
Search the NHLE for: VAT HALL - VAULT — An underground room or building with an arched roof, often used as a burial chamber. Use wider site type where known.
Search the NHLE for: VAULT - VEGETABLE CHUTE — A channel for conveying vegetables.
Search the NHLE for: VEGETABLE CHUTE - VEGETABLE GARDEN — A garden devoted to the growth of vegetables.
Search the NHLE for: VEGETABLE GARDEN - VEGETABLE STORE — A building or room for the storage of vegetables, particularly root vegetables, for human consumption.
Search the NHLE for: VEGETABLE STORE - VEHICLE DEPOT — A storage facility used for the accommodation and dispersal of vehicles. Often used by the military and emergency services.
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE DEPOT - VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE — Sites associated with the manufacture and engineering of vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE ENGINEERING SITE - VEHICLE FACTORY — A factory for the manufacture of vehicles
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE FACTORY - VEHICLE REPAIR CENTRE — A building or site used for the maintenance and repair of motor vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE REPAIR CENTRE - VEHICLE TESTING STATION — A building or site used to assess the mechanical state of a vehicle.
Search the NHLE for: VEHICLE TESTING STATION - VELODROME — A sports arena with a steeply banked oval track for bicycle racing. There are outdoor as well as indoor velodromes.
Search the NHLE for: VELODROME - VENEREAL DISEASE UNIT — A centre where patients suffering from venereal and associated diseases receive treatment.
Search the NHLE for: VENEREAL DISEASE UNIT - VENTILATION CHIMNEY — A tall stack used to disperse foul air from the bottom of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: VENTILATION CHIMNEY - VENTILATION FURNACE — Small furnace, used to create an upward draught of air in mine workings.
Search the NHLE for: VENTILATION FURNACE - VENTILATION SHAFT — A shaft designed to allow for the adequate circulation of air through a transport tunnel, for example.
Search the NHLE for: VENTILATION SHAFT - VERDERERS COTTAGE — A forester's cottage.
Search the NHLE for: VERDERERS COTTAGE - VERDERERS HALL — A meeting hall of the verderers, who were the officers appointed to maintain the King's forests.
Search the NHLE for: VERDERERS HALL - VERGERS COTTAGE — The residence of a verger, typically a layperson who assists in the ordering of religious services within the Anglican church.
Search the NHLE for: VERGERS COTTAGE - VERJUICE PRESS — Device for extracting juice from apples, usually crab apples, for use in cooking and medicine. Consists of a stone base carved with channels in the upper surface which was used with an upper weight, often secured with a wooden beam wedged into position.
Search the NHLE for: VERJUICE PRESS - VERMIN TRAP — A device used to trap or kill animals considered to be pests, eg. rats.
Search the NHLE for: VERMIN TRAP - VERTICAL STEAM ENGINE — An engine in which a vertical piston rod supplies energy via a crankshaft directly to the flywheel suspended above the cylinder. Extensively used as mine winding engines.
Search the NHLE for: VERTICAL STEAM ENGINE - VESTRY — A room or part of a church where the vestments, vessels and records are kept.
Search the NHLE for: VESTRY - VETERINARY HOSPITAL — A hospital for the medical or surgical treatment of domestic or wild animals.
Search the NHLE for: VETERINARY HOSPITAL - VEXILLATION FORT — A military base normally between 20 and 30 acres in size, containing legionary and auxiliary battle units, which served as stores depots and winter quarters during campaigns.
Search the NHLE for: VEXILLATION FORT - VHF FIXER STATION — A Very High Frequency device to allow aircraft to pinpoint their position as an aid to naviagation. Built as part of the Rotor programme.
Search the NHLE for: VHF FIXER STATION - VIADUCT — A bridge, usually resting on a series of arches, carrying roadways or railways over low-lying areas.
Search the NHLE for: VIADUCT - VICARAGE — The residence of a vicar, parson or rector.
Search the NHLE for: VICARAGE - VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT — A square, concrete pillbox-like structure with 36in thick walls and a single large embrasure used to emplace a Vickers Medium Machine Gun. The entrance was protected by an external blast wall.
Search the NHLE for: VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - VICTUALLING YARD — A complex of buildings with the purpose of providing and storing food and drink supplies (esp. for the navy).
Search the NHLE for: VICTUALLING YARD - VICUS — A district, suburb or quarter of a town or village adjacent to a fort, with the lowest legal status accorded to a built up area.
Search the NHLE for: VICUS - VIERECKSCHANZEN — A rectilinear ritual enclosure of Iron Age date
Search the NHLE for: VIERECKSCHANZEN - VIEWING TERRACE — A man made terrace, often constructed in concrete, built to allow spectators a view of organized outdoor events or activities.
Search the NHLE for: VIEWING TERRACE - VILL — Small discreet rural settlements which do not provide the commercial, legal or ecclesiastical services typically found within medieval urban areas.
Search the NHLE for: VILL - VILLA — A term for a type of house, with varying definitions according to period. Roman villas were high-status and usually associated with a rural estate, whereas Georgian and later period villas were often semi-detached, town houses.
Search the NHLE for: VILLA - VILLAGE — A collection of dwelling-houses and other buildings, usually larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a simpler organisation and administration than the latter.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE - VILLAGE COLLEGE — A rural school serving a number of villages, built in Cambridgeshire in the 1930s.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE COLLEGE - VILLAGE CROSS — A cross erected in a village.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE CROSS - VILLAGE GREEN — An area of common grassland in a village used for grazing cattle, recreational purposes, etc.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE GREEN - VILLAGE HALL — A hall in a village used for meetings and other functions.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE HALL - VILLAGE SIGN — A decorative emblem stating the name of a village or town and depicting aspects of the place's history of culture. Most signs are mounted on a post and usually errected in a central position near the church or village green.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE SIGN - VILLAGE TAP — A point in a village providing water for drinking and washing.
Search the NHLE for: VILLAGE TAP - VINEGAR BREWERY — A site where vinegar is manufactured from soured beer, wine or cider.
Search the NHLE for: VINEGAR BREWERY - VINERY — A glass-house or hot-house constructed for the cultivation of a grapevine.
Search the NHLE for: VINERY - VINEYARD — An area of land and associated buildings where vines are cultivated. The grapes produced are then used to make wine.
Search the NHLE for: VINEYARD - VIOLIN FACTORY — A building where violins are manufactured and the art of violin making is taught.
Search the NHLE for: VIOLIN FACTORY - VISITORS CENTRE (LEISURE) — A building or complex, often associated with a historic site or place of interest, containing interpretation panels and information for visitors to the site or area.
Search the NHLE for: VISITORS CENTRE (LEISURE) - VISITORS CENTRE (PRISON) — A building or complex in which visitors to a prison can meet with the inmates under the supervision of the prison staff.
Search the NHLE for: VISITORS CENTRE (PRISON) - VITRIFIED STONE — A stone, of unidentified function, showing evidence of great heating at some point in the past, leading to vitrification.
Search the NHLE for: VITRIFIED STONE - VIVARIUM — A small park or enclosure where animals are kept.
Search the NHLE for: VIVARIUM - VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT HOSPITAL — A building temporarily requisitioned for use as an auxiliary hospital administered by members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment during the First World War.
Search the NHLE for: VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT HOSPITAL - VOLUNTARY SCHOOL — A school built and/or supported by voluntary contributions.
Search the NHLE for: VOLUNTARY SCHOOL - VULNERABLE DEFILE — A pass, vulnerable to attack from the enemy but essential for the movement of troops and which, if captured, could divide a defending force. As a result such passes are defended with anti invasion defences such as pillboxes.
Search the NHLE for: VULNERABLE DEFILE
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- WADDING MILL — A mill used for the production of wadding, as opposed to yarn or cloth. Often associated with steam or water power.
Search the NHLE for: WADDING MILL - WADDLE FAN HOUSE — A building housing an electric powered ventilation fan for use in deep mine shafts
Search the NHLE for: WADDLE FAN HOUSE - WAGON SHED — A building or structure to house railway wagons.
Search the NHLE for: WAGON SHED - WAGONWAY — An early form of railway for the transportation of freight by wagons on rails on a road.
Search the NHLE for: WAGONWAY - WAITING ROOM — A room used by those who have to wait at railway or bus stations, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WAITING ROOM - WALK — A place or path for walking in a park or garden. Use more specific type where possible.
Search the NHLE for: WALK - WALKER FAN HOUSE — A building housing a double inlet fan that was used for the ventillation of mine shafts
Search the NHLE for: WALKER FAN HOUSE - WALKING STICK MILL — A mill used for the manufacture of walking sticks.
Search the NHLE for: WALKING STICK MILL - WALL — An enclosing structure composed of bricks, stones or similar materials, laid in courses. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WALL - WALL BOX — A post box mounted in, or on, a wall.
Search the NHLE for: WALL BOX - WALL CRANE — A small crane fixed to the wall of a warehouse or similar building.
Search the NHLE for: WALL CRANE - WALL MONUMENT — A substantial monument attached to a wall and often standing on the floor.
Search the NHLE for: WALL MONUMENT - WALL PAINTING — A painting executed directly onto a wall.
Search the NHLE for: WALL PAINTING - WALL WALK — A walkway on the top of a defensive wall, providing access to the parapets and towers.
Search the NHLE for: WALL WALK - WALLED CEMETERY — A high status, walled, Roman burial ground containing cremations and/or inhumations in mausolea, tombs, barrows, coffins or cists. Dating from the late 1st to the 4th Century AD. DO NOT USE for cemeteries of later dates which are walled.
Search the NHLE for: WALLED CEMETERY - WALLED GARDEN — A garden surrounded by a substantial wall.
Search the NHLE for: WALLED GARDEN - WALLPAPER FACTORY — A place where paper, frequently printed in ornamental designs, used for covering the interior walls of buildings, is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: WALLPAPER FACTORY - WAR MEMORIAL — A structure, building or site commemorating soldiers and civilians killed in war.
Search the NHLE for: WAR MEMORIAL - WAR MEMORIAL (FREESTANDING) — A freestanding structure commemorating nations, actions, soldiers and/or civilians that served or died as a result of conflict.
Search the NHLE for: WAR MEMORIAL (FREESTANDING) - WAR MEMORIAL (TRIBUTE) — An attached plaque, inscription, mural or display commemorating nations, actions, soldiers and/or civilians that served or died as a result of conflict.
Search the NHLE for: WAR MEMORIAL (TRIBUTE) - WAR PRODUCTION FACTORY — A factory or works which has been temporarily turned over to the manufacture of goods for the war effort.
Search the NHLE for: WAR PRODUCTION FACTORY - WAR ROOM — A reinforced concrete structure, which may be sited above ground or semi-sunken, from where it was intended to conduct the business of government from, in the event of nuclear war. Date specific to the early-mid 1950's.
Search the NHLE for: WAR ROOM - WAR SHELTER — A 19th century structure of various shape or material for the protection of troops in an emergency.
Search the NHLE for: WAR SHELTER - WARD BLOCK — Non-pavilion type of attached ward block.
Search the NHLE for: WARD BLOCK - WAREHOUSE — A building or part of a building used for the storage of goods or merchandise. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WAREHOUSE - WARMING HOUSE — A building or room within a monastery in which the monks were allowed to warm themselves. The warming house was often the only place where a fire was allowed.
Search the NHLE for: WARMING HOUSE - WARNING SIREN — An instrument used for making a loud sound for information or warning.
Search the NHLE for: WARNING SIREN - WARRENERS LODGE — Accommodation for the warrener(s) usually located within the boundary of the Rabbit Warren. They also provided a place to store nets, traps and other necessary equipment.
Search the NHLE for: WARRENERS LODGE - WASH HOUSE — A building where clothes are washed.
Search the NHLE for: WASH HOUSE - WASH KILN — A type of buddle used as an ore-cleaning device for seperating metallic ore from waste material by washing the dirty ore in a continuous flow of water.
Search the NHLE for: WASH KILN - WASHFOLD — A pen for holding sheep waiting to be washed.
Search the NHLE for: WASHFOLD - WASHING FLOOR — Open-air area often terraced on which a range of ore processing operations are carried out.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING FLOOR - WASHING PIT — A pit or tank where the chemicals used in tanning are washed from the animal hides.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING PIT - WASHING PLACE — Outdoor site for domestic washing, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING PLACE - WASHING SHOP — A building containing a range of processes for cleaning and processing metallic ores.
Search the NHLE for: WASHING SHOP - WASTE DISPOSAL SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the disposal of domestic and industrial waste.
Search the NHLE for: WASTE DISPOSAL SITE - WASTER TIP — A dump for wasters; pieces of pottery spoiled in the manufacturing process.
Search the NHLE for: WASTER TIP - WATCH FACTORY — A factory that manufactures watches.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH FACTORY - WATCH HOUSE — A house or hut for a nightwatchman; including parish watch houses in churchyards and private watch houses, eg. in dockyards, factories, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH HOUSE - WATCH OFFICE — A building, originally used as a shelter for the duty pilot or officer on watch on an airfield, and later used to direct air traffic. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE - WATCH OFFICE (1072/26) — A small, single storey building used as the Pilots' room on fighter stations and as the watch office on bomber stations.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (1072/26) - WATCH OFFICE (12779/41) — A two-storey, structure with a brick ground floor and a reinforced concrete upper floor with balcony and large windows to the watch office and control room. This became the most common building design for air traffic control in the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (12779/41) - WATCH OFFICE (13726/41) — A detached building without an operations block and crew briefing room designed on modern lines similar to, but smaller than WATCH OFFICE (12779/41). Began appearing on new stations from September 1941.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (13726/41) - WATCH OFFICE (14383/40) — A fighter satellite station watch office built to Air Ministry design drawing number 14383/40.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (14383/40) - WATCH OFFICE (15684/41) — A night fighter station watch office based on the standard design dor Bomber Satellite Station watch offices
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (15684/41) - WATCH OFFICE (1597/27) — A small building housing pilot's and locker rooms with flight offices and a watch office. The only known example was built at Tangmere.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (1597/27) - WATCH OFFICE (17658/40) — A fighter satellite station watch office built to Air Ministry design drawing number 17658/40.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (17658/40) - WATCH OFFICE (18441/40) — A fighter satellite station watch office built to Air Ministry design drawing number 18441/40.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (18441/40) - WATCH OFFICE (1959/34) — A two-storey watch office, built to Air Ministry drawing number 1959/34. It became the standard design for watch offices with a large, almost square, ground plan with a central observation tower.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (1959/34) - WATCH OFFICE (1960/34) — A two-storey watch office, built to Air Ministry drawing number 1959/34 but with slight design modifications as detailed in drawing number 1960/34.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (1960/34) - WATCH OFFICE (207/36) — A two-storey watch office similar in design to drawing number 1959/34 but constructed completely from concrete. A large, almost square, ground plan with a central observation tower.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (207/36) - WATCH OFFICE (3156/41) — A fighter satellite station watch office built to Air Ministry design drawing number 3156/41.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (3156/41) - WATCH OFFICE (343/43) — A modification of WATCH OFFICE (12779/41) where the original large windows were removed and smaller frames fitted, the gap being filled with straight-joint brickwork.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (343/43) - WATCH OFFICE (4698/43)
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE (4698/43) - WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION — A watch office with additional rooms given over to the meteorological section, including a forecast room and met store.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION - WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (2328/39) — A two-storey, all-concrete construction with a watch office and additional rooms given over to the meteorological section, including a forecast room and met store. A concrete parapet all around the roof differentiates it from 5845/39.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (2328/39) - WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (2423/39) — An all timber constructed watch office with meterological section. Similar in design to 2328/39 and 5845/39. There were only two known examples built in the UK at Wick and St.Eval.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (2423/39) - WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (518/40) — A temporary brick and timber watch office based on the all-timber 2423/39. Built after 1941 on many Operational Training Unit airfields the design was superseded by 8936/40.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (518/40) - WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (5845/39) — A two-storey, brick construction with a watch office and additional rooms given over to the meteorological section, including a forecast room and met store. A brick parapet on the roof differentiates it from 2328/39.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (5845/39) - WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (8936/40) — Based on the previous all-timber design 2423/39 and the temporary brick and timber design 518/40, the 8936/40 was built with pre-cast concrete slabs replacing the timber floors and staircases with only the balcony and watch office roof in timber.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH MET SECTION (8936/40) - WATCH OFFICE WITH OPERATIONS ROOM — A building, originally used as a shelter for the duty pilot or officer on watch on an airfield, incorporating an operations room.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH OPERATIONS ROOM - WATCH OFFICE WITH OPS ROOM (13079/41) — Watch Office with operations room designed to Air Ministry drawing number (13079/41)
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH OPS ROOM (13079/41) - WATCH OFFICE WITH OPS ROOM (7345/41) — Watch Office with operations room designed to Air Ministry drawing number (7345/41
Search the NHLE for: WATCH OFFICE WITH OPS ROOM (7345/41) - WATCH TOWER — A building or structure from which observation is kept of the approach of danger.
Search the NHLE for: WATCH TOWER - WATCHMAKERS WORKSHOP — A place where watches and timepieces are manufactured and mended.
Search the NHLE for: WATCHMAKERS WORKSHOP - WATCHMANS BOX — A small building used as a shelter by a constable of the watch responsible for patrolling the streets at night to safeguard life and property.
Search the NHLE for: WATCHMANS BOX - WATER CHANNEL — An artificial watercourse for the conveyance of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER CHANNEL - WATER CHUTE — A structure consisting of a large plastic pipe attached to a high tower and sloping down to a swimming pool. Water flows down the inside allowing people to slide down into the pool below.
Search the NHLE for: WATER CHUTE - WATER DISPOSAL SITE — Sites and structures associated with the disposal of waste water and waterborne refuse.
Search the NHLE for: WATER DISPOSAL SITE - WATER FEATURE — A body of water, building or structure found in a park or garden used as a water supply or ornament. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WATER FEATURE - WATER GARDEN — A garden incorporating fountains and pools in which aquatic and other water-loving plants are grown.
Search the NHLE for: WATER GARDEN - WATER GATE — A gate leading to water, either a river or the sea. Used as a means of supplying castles, for example, with goods brought by water transport.
Search the NHLE for: WATER GATE - WATER LILY HOUSE — A garden building or greenhouse, containing pools in which Water Lilies are grown.
Search the NHLE for: WATER LILY HOUSE - WATER MEADOW — Grassland fertilized by allowing floodwater to cover it in winter.
Search the NHLE for: WATER MEADOW - WATER METER HOUSE — A building in which apparatus measuring the amount of water supplied/used is housed.
Search the NHLE for: WATER METER HOUSE - WATER PAVILION — A type of GARDEN HOUSE situated on an island in a garden lake or canal or, more generally, by any waterside.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PAVILION - WATER PIPE — A pipe through which water is conducted.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PIPE - WATER POINT — A water tank, often raised on stilts, used to supply water to steam trains.
Search the NHLE for: WATER POINT - WATER POWER PRODUCTION SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production and use of water power.
Search the NHLE for: WATER POWER PRODUCTION SITE - WATER PUMP — A point of public water supply, including conduits, fountains, wells, pumps and standpipes.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PUMP - WATER PUMPING STATION — A pumping station used as part of a clean water supply system.
Search the NHLE for: WATER PUMPING STATION - WATER REGULATION INSTALLATION — Buildings, structures and sites for regulating the flow of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER REGULATION INSTALLATION - WATER SPORTS CENTRE — An area of land incorporating bodies of water, either natural or manmade for use in water sports activities such as canoeing, rowing and sailing. Usually includes a leisure complex with facilities for the users.
Search the NHLE for: WATER SPORTS CENTRE - WATER STORAGE SITE — Sites and structures associated with the storage of water and waste water. Use only where the exact form or function is unknown otherwise use more specific term.
Search the NHLE for: WATER STORAGE SITE - WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE — Sites, building, structures & features associated with the supply & drainage of water & the disposal of sewage and waste water. Includes bodies of water, waterways & associated ancillary structures.
Search the NHLE for: WATER SUPPLY AND DRAINAGE - WATER SUPPLY SITE — Site and structures associated with the supply of clean water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER SUPPLY SITE - WATER TANK — A receptacle for the storage of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TANK - WATER TAP — A water point with a device to regulate the flow of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TAP - WATER TOWER — A tower serving as a reservoir to deliver water at a required point.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TOWER - WATER TOWER (1178/25) — A large, circular, reinforced-concrete tank supported on concrete staging built to Air Ministry drawing number 1178/25 and designed to hold 30,000 gallons of water. The height of the tower varied according to local site requirements.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TOWER (1178/25) - WATER TOWER (20/40) — A plate-steel water tower made with two compartments holding 30,000 gallons of water. Designed to Air Ministry drawing number 20/40.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TOWER (20/40) - WATER TOWER (9526/41) — A plate-steel water tank on a steel tower designed to hold 80,000 gallons of water. Designed to Air Ministry drawing number 9526/41.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TOWER (9526/41) - WATER TRANSPORT SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with water transport.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TRANSPORT SITE - WATER TUNNEL — A large, undergound watercourse.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TUNNEL - WATER TURBINE — A prime mover in which a central wheel with curved vanes, enclosed in a chamber, receives water directed onto the curved vanes by a ring of fixed guide vanes, causing the wheel to rotate about its axis.
Search the NHLE for: WATER TURBINE - WATER WHEEL — A structure associated with forges, watermills, water-powered factories, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WATER WHEEL - WATERCOURSE — A channel used for or formed by the conveyance of water. Can be natural, eg. a river or artificial eg. an aqueduct. Use more specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WATERCOURSE - WATERCRAFT — A boat, ship or other vessel either whole or in part. Watercraft often survive as commemorative monuments or have been reused as floating restaurants, museums, hotels etc.
Search the NHLE for: WATERCRAFT - WATERCRESS BED — A cultivated plantation of watercress, usually situated near springs or small running streams.
Search the NHLE for: WATERCRESS BED - WATERFALL — A fall of water. Use for artificial waterfalls if naturalistic in form, otherwise use CASCADE.
Search the NHLE for: WATERFALL - WATERFRONT — The area of a town or city, such as a harbour or dockyard, alongside a body of water.
Search the NHLE for: WATERFRONT - WATERHOLE — An artificial pond or pool constructed for the purpose of watering livestock, particularly in prehistory.
Search the NHLE for: WATERHOLE - WATERMILL — A mill whose machinery is driven by water.
Search the NHLE for: WATERMILL - WATERWORKS — Buildings, engineering constructions and machinery, used for the purpose of supplying a town, etc, with water distributed through pipes.
Search the NHLE for: WATERWORKS - WATERWORKS COTTAGE — A house occupied by an employee of a waterworks. Usually found in association with a pumping station or waterworks.
Search the NHLE for: WATERWORKS COTTAGE - WAX FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the manufacture of all types of wax.
Search the NHLE for: WAX FACTORY - WAY MARKER — A marker of some form used to delineate a route, especially ones associated with pilgrimages.
Search the NHLE for: WAY MARKER - WAYMARKER CROSS — A rural cross erected to show the way.
Search the NHLE for: WAYMARKER CROSS - WAYSIDE CHAPEL — A chapel for the use of travellers and pilgrims.
Search the NHLE for: WAYSIDE CHAPEL - WAYSIDE CROSS — A cross erected by the side of the road.
Search the NHLE for: WAYSIDE CROSS - WAYSIDE PUMP — A water pump situated at the side of a road or track for use by travellers and their animals.
Search the NHLE for: WAYSIDE PUMP - WEALDEN HOUSE — A medieval house with central open hall and two storey bays, jettied at first floor level, on either side.
Search the NHLE for: WEALDEN HOUSE - WEALDEN TERRACE — A continuous row of WEALDEN HOUSES.
Search the NHLE for: WEALDEN TERRACE - WEAPONS PIT — Usually a small, two or three man trench, dug as an isolated fieldwork rather than as part of a defensive system. A WWI and WWII feature.
Search the NHLE for: WEAPONS PIT - WEAPONS TESTING SITE — A building, site or structure associated with the demonstration and testing of weapons and military equipment.
Search the NHLE for: WEAPONS TESTING SITE - WEATHER STATION — A building, group of buildings or installation in which experiments and observations are undertaken to gather and record information about the weather.
Search the NHLE for: WEATHER STATION - WEATHER VANE — A vane usually combined with crossed rods to show the four compass points. Used to indicate the direction of the wind.
Search the NHLE for: WEATHER VANE - WEAVERS COTTAGE — A type of clothier's house, consisting of TOPSHOP and dwelling, used for hand-weaving of textiles.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVERS COTTAGE - WEAVERS WORKSHOP — A handloom weavers workshop where the weaver received yarn from a clothier and manufactured a woven piece of cloth from it.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVERS WORKSHOP - WEAVING MILL — A factory, incorporating power driven machinery from the late 18th century, where cloth was manufactured from threads interlaced at right angles to each other in a loom.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVING MILL - WEAVING SHED — A textile-weaving factory housing powerlooms; commonly a one-storeyed shed with wide, north-light roof carried on iron columns.
Search the NHLE for: WEAVING SHED - WEIGH HOUSE — A building containing a weighing machine for weighing goods; sometimes found in markets, ports, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WEIGH HOUSE - WEIGHBRIDGE — A platform scale, flush with the road, for weighing vehicles, cattle, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WEIGHBRIDGE - WEIGHING MACHINE — An apparatus for weighing people, animals or things.
Search the NHLE for: WEIGHING MACHINE - WEIR — A dam constructed on the reaches of a canal or river designed to retain the water and to regulate its flow.
Search the NHLE for: WEIR - WELFARE CENTRE — A building where advice and aid appertaining to physical and economic wellbeing of disadvantaged members of a community are made available.
Search the NHLE for: WELFARE CENTRE - WELL — A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water.
Search the NHLE for: WELL - WELL CHAPEL — A chapel adjacent to, associated with or containing a well.
Search the NHLE for: WELL CHAPEL - WELL COVER — A lid for a well. Well covers are often ornate and can be made of various materials.
Search the NHLE for: WELL COVER - WELL HEAD — The structure at the top of a draw well.
Search the NHLE for: WELL HEAD - WELL HOUSE — A building over a well housing machinery for raising the water. Often consisting of a DONKEY WHEEL or HORSE GIN.
Search the NHLE for: WELL HOUSE - WELL KEEPERS COTTAGE — The residence of a well keeper.
Search the NHLE for: WELL KEEPERS COTTAGE - WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Wesleyan Association. This group split from the Methodists in 1836 and were separate until joining the Methodist Reform Church in 1857.
Search the NHLE for: WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION CHAPEL - WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL — A place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This was the original Methodist church from which the other denominations seceded. In 1932 they joined the United Methodists and the Primitive Methodists to form the Methodist church.
Search the NHLE for: WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL - WESLEYAN REFORM UNION CHAPEL — A place of worship for followers of the Wesleyan Reform Union, a movement formed in 1859 by those members of the Methodist Reform Church who did not join the Wesleyan Association.
Search the NHLE for: WESLEYAN REFORM UNION CHAPEL - WET DOCK — A large, watertight enclosure in which the water is maintained at the high-tide level so that vessels remain constantly afloat in them.
Search the NHLE for: WET DOCK - WHALING STATION — A building or site where the carcasses of whales were butchered and rendered into by products such as oil, fenk and whalebone.
Search the NHLE for: WHALING STATION - WHARF — A large wooden structure built alongside the water's edge where ships may lie for unloading.
Search the NHLE for: WHARF - WHARFINGERS COTTAGE — A dwelling for the keeper of a canal wharf.
Search the NHLE for: WHARFINGERS COTTAGE - WHEEL HOUSE — A building to house waterwheels, attached to a WATERMILL or water-powered factory.
Search the NHLE for: WHEEL HOUSE - WHEEL MOULD — A circle made out of stones, which is used for making wheels.
Search the NHLE for: WHEEL MOULD - WHEEL PIT — The rectangular pit in which the lower part of a waterwheel revolves.
Search the NHLE for: WHEEL PIT - WHEEL RUT — A linear groove worn into the surface of a road or thoroughfare by the continuous passage of wheeled vehicles. Usually expected to occur in pairs.
Search the NHLE for: WHEEL RUT - WHEELWRIGHTS WORKSHOP — A place where wheels and wheeled vehicles were manufactured, originally from wood.
Search the NHLE for: WHEELWRIGHTS WORKSHOP - WHETSTONE MINE — A place where silicate rock was extracted to be shaped for use as whetstones. Examples can be found in Derbyshire and the Blackdown Hills in Devon.
Search the NHLE for: WHETSTONE MINE - WHIM HOUSE — A building housing a whim, a machine worked by a horse, used for raising ores, etc, from a mine.
Search the NHLE for: WHIM HOUSE - WHINSTONE MINE — A mine used for the extraction of any hard dark-coloured rock.
Search the NHLE for: WHINSTONE MINE - WHIPPING POST — A post set up, to which offenders were tied to be whipped.
Search the NHLE for: WHIPPING POST - WHISTLE FACTORY — A building or buildings used for the production of whistles.
Search the NHLE for: WHISTLE FACTORY - WHITE GARDEN — A garden deliberately planted with white plants and shrubs.
Search the NHLE for: WHITE GARDEN - WHITESMITHS WORKSHOP — A workshop with a forge for the melting and working of white metal, ie. low-melting alloys. Also used for a smith specializing in decorative or finely finished wrought iron work.
Search the NHLE for: WHITESMITHS WORKSHOP - WHITING MILL — A building housing machinery for crushing chalk for whiting. Whiting was used in toothpaste, paint, tablets, putty and other products.
Search the NHLE for: WHITING MILL - WHITING WORKS — A building or site used for the manufacture of whiting either from crushed chalk, limestone, marble or through chemical preparation.
Search the NHLE for: WHITING WORKS - WHOLESALE MARKET — A market where goods are bought and sold in bulk, rather than by retail.
Search the NHLE for: WHOLESALE MARKET - WHOLESALE SHOP — A place where goods are sold in bulk, rather than by retail.
Search the NHLE for: WHOLESALE SHOP - WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE — A large storehouse where wholesale goods are stored.
Search the NHLE for: WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE - WIGMAKERS SHOP — A place where wigs, hair-pieces and hair extensions are made and sold.
Search the NHLE for: WIGMAKERS SHOP - WILD CAT ENCLOSURE — An enclosure for wild cats such as Lions and Tigers
Search the NHLE for: WILD CAT ENCLOSURE - WILD GARDEN — A garden where woodland and meadow flowers grow in an apparently natural way.
Search the NHLE for: WILD GARDEN - WILLEY SHED — A building in which wool or cotton were beaten to clean and separate the fibres.
Search the NHLE for: WILLEY SHED - WINCH — A stationary hoisting machine consisting of a rotating drum around which a cable, rope or chain is attached.
Search the NHLE for: WINCH - WINCH HOUSE — A building housing a winching mechanism.
Search the NHLE for: WINCH HOUSE - WIND ENGINE — A simple wind-driven machine used for a variety of purposes.
Search the NHLE for: WIND ENGINE - WIND FARM — A group of electricity-producing windmills or wind turbines.
Search the NHLE for: WIND FARM - WIND POWER SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production and use of wind power.
Search the NHLE for: WIND POWER SITE - WIND PUMP — A wind-powered pump for land drainage.
Search the NHLE for: WIND PUMP - WIND SCREEN — Vertical screens made of wood or steel framing mounted on concrete blocks were built to protect airships from cross winds when entering or leaving the airship sheds.
Search the NHLE for: WIND SCREEN - WIND TUNNEL — A structure used to test the aerodynamics of aircraft or vehicles.
Search the NHLE for: WIND TUNNEL - WIND TURBINE — An apparatus designed with a large vaned wheel rotated by the wind in order to generate electricity.
Search the NHLE for: WIND TURBINE - WINDER HOUSE — A building housing an engine, usually with an attendant boiler house and chimney. Used for winding from a pit.
Search the NHLE for: WINDER HOUSE - WINDING CIRCLE — An area of ground indicating the site of a horse or man-powered winding mechanism.
Search the NHLE for: WINDING CIRCLE - WINDING ENGINE — An engine used for directly winding up coal from deep mines, first used in the 18th century.
Search the NHLE for: WINDING ENGINE - WINDING GEAR — Machinery for raising and lowering men and materials to and from the surface of a mine.
Search the NHLE for: WINDING GEAR - WINDING HOLE — A widening in a canal to allow boats to turn around.
Search the NHLE for: WINDING HOLE - WINDLASS — A mechanical structure, consisting of a roller or beam on supports, round which a rope or chain is wound, and used for various purposes, eg. raising a bucket from a well, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WINDLASS - WINDMILL — A tower-like structure of wood or brick with a wooden cap and sails which are driven around by the wind producing power to work the internal machinery. Use with product type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WINDMILL - WINDMILL MOUND — An artificial mound of earth indicating either the former site of a windmill or built as the base of a post windmill.
Search the NHLE for: WINDMILL MOUND - WINE AND CIDERMAKING SITE — Buildings, sites and structures associated with the production of wine and cider.
Search the NHLE for: WINE AND CIDERMAKING SITE - WINE BAR — A licenced establishment where wine and other alcoholic drinks are sold for drinking on the premises.
Search the NHLE for: WINE BAR - WINE CELLAR — A building or subterranean structure used for the storage of wine.
Search the NHLE for: WINE CELLAR - WINE LODGE — A public house licensed for the sale of wine and other alcoholic drinks.
Search the NHLE for: WINE LODGE - WINE PRESS — A press in which the juice is extracted from grapes in the manufacture of wine.
Search the NHLE for: WINE PRESS - WINERY — An establishment where wine is produced.
Search the NHLE for: WINERY - WINGED FURNACE — In the glass industry, a furnace of Lorraine Type, comprising a central rectangular melting furnace with ancillary structures at each corner, adjacent to the fires. Post-Mediaeval until superceded by coal-fired furnaces.
Search the NHLE for: WINGED FURNACE - WINTER BEE HOUSE — A dark outbuilding or cellar with internal recesses for overwintering skeps of bees.
Search the NHLE for: WINTER BEE HOUSE - WINTER GARDEN — Originally an area planted with evergreens or winter-flowering plants for winter display, they can also be large glasshouses built for public entertainment where the original purpose of displaying plants has either disappeared or been minimalised.
Search the NHLE for: WINTER GARDEN - WIRE MILL — A factory where metal wire is manufactured.
Search the NHLE for: WIRE MILL - WITHERITE MINE — A mine used for the extraction of the mineral Witherite. When secondary mineral, use with term for product, eg. LEAD MINE.
Search the NHLE for: WITHERITE MINE - WITHY BOILER — Used for boiling sections of willow for basket making, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WITHY BOILER - WOAD MILL — A mill for the processes of grinding, balling, couching, drying and packing of woad. The mill can be demountable, enabling it being located close to the fields, as woad crop has to be rotated and move to new fields as soon as the ground is exhausted.
Search the NHLE for: WOAD MILL - WOMEN AND CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital for the medical and surgical treatment of women and children.
Search the NHLE for: WOMEN AND CHILDRENS HOSPITAL - WOMENS AUXILIARY AIR FORCE CAMP — A camp used for the accommodation of members of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force who undertook a variety of essential roles within the RAF to enable their male counterparts to fight more effectively.
Search the NHLE for: WOMENS AUXILIARY AIR FORCE CAMP - WOMENS HOSPITAL — A specialist hospital where women receive medical and surgical treatment.
Search the NHLE for: WOMENS HOSPITAL - WOMENS INSTITUTE — A building used by members of the Womens Institute, an organization which meets regularly and engages in various social and cultural activities.
Search the NHLE for: WOMENS INSTITUTE - WOMENS LAND ARMY CAMP — A camp used to accommodate members of the Womens Land Army who undertook essential agricultural work during the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: WOMENS LAND ARMY CAMP - WOMENS LAND ARMY HOSTEL — A hostel used to accommodate members of the Womens Land Army who undertook essential agricultural work during the Second World War.
Search the NHLE for: WOMENS LAND ARMY HOSTEL - WOOD — A tract of land with trees, sometimes acting as a boundary or barrier, usually smaller and less wild than a forest.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD - WOOD BANK — An earthen bank indicating the limit of a wood or coppice
Search the NHLE for: WOOD BANK - WOOD CHEMICAL WORKS — A factory or works used for the production of turpentine, wood alcohol and similar chemicals by the distillation of pulped wood.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD CHEMICAL WORKS - WOOD DRYING KILN — A kiln used for the drying of wood.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD DRYING KILN - WOOD PROCESSING SITE — Includes processing and manufacturing of all forms of wood.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD PROCESSING SITE - WOOD PRODUCT SITE — Manufacture and use of wood side products, ie. unprocessed wood rather than processed timber.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD PRODUCT SITE - WOOD SHED — A building or room in which wood is stored.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD SHED - WOOD WORKERS WORKSHOP — A workshop in which products are made using wood and timber.
Search the NHLE for: WOOD WORKERS WORKSHOP - WOODEN ROAD — A road surface made out of wooden blocks or planks. It was much used in English cities before 1940, but the cost of wooden blocks eventually made it uneconomical.
Search the NHLE for: WOODEN ROAD - WOODLAND GARDEN — A garden created within woodland where imported species such as camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons are grown.
Search the NHLE for: WOODLAND GARDEN - WOODWORKERS HUT — A hut used by a person who makes items from wood. Often found in a woodland setting.
Search the NHLE for: WOODWORKERS HUT - WOODWORKING SITE — A site where unprocessed wood is used to manufacture goods.
Search the NHLE for: WOODWORKING SITE - WOOL BARN — A barn used for the storage and drying of wool.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL BARN - WOOL DRY HOUSE — A building used to dry wool in.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL DRY HOUSE - WOOL EXCHANGE — A commercial building used primarily as a trading place for wool merchants.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL EXCHANGE - WOOL LOFT — A room or building used for the storage of fleeces.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL LOFT - WOOL MANUFACTURING SITE — Includes worsted and other wool-related textiles.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL MANUFACTURING SITE - WOOL STAPLE — A market appointed for the sale of wool.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL STAPLE - WOOL STOVE — A house for drying wool after fulling and dying.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL STOVE - WOOL WALL — A structure used for drying yarn in open fields.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL WALL - WOOL WAREHOUSE — A large store where wool is stored.
Search the NHLE for: WOOL WAREHOUSE - WOOLCOMBERS SHOP — A workshop in which carded wool was passed through heated combs to straighten and separate the long and short fibres prior to spinning. Associated with the worsted branch of the textile industry.
Search the NHLE for: WOOLCOMBERS SHOP - WOOLLEN MILL — A factory where short wool was spun into woollen yarn to produce cloth.
Search the NHLE for: WOOLLEN MILL - WORKERS COTTAGE — Industrial worker's house which has been purpose built by an employer, as opposed to the workshop houses used by artisans.
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS COTTAGE - WORKERS HOSTEL — A temporary hostel built for industrial or transport workers; for example, railway workers' hostels were provided for engine drivers.
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS HOSTEL - WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT — A temporary settlement or encampment erected by construction workers (eg for reservoir construction).
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT - WORKERS VILLAGE — A model village built in association with a factory, mill, railway, or any other industrial complex; usually built by the employer.
Search the NHLE for: WORKERS VILLAGE - WORKHOUSE — A 19th century establishment for the provision of work for the unemployed poor of a parish; later an institution administered by Guardians of the Poor, in which paupers are lodged and the able-bodied set to work.
Search the NHLE for: WORKHOUSE - WORKING MENS CLUB — A club founded to provide education, relaxation, and recreation for working men.
Search the NHLE for: WORKING MENS CLUB - WORKING MENS COLLEGE — A college founded for the education and betterment of the working classes. Lectures usually being held after the end of the working day.
Search the NHLE for: WORKING MENS COLLEGE - WORKING MENS INSTITUTE — A place where working men could educate themselves through lectures and the use of a reading room with newspapers, etc.
Search the NHLE for: WORKING MENS INSTITUTE - WORKS — Usually a complex of buildings for the processing of raw materials. Use specific type where known.
Search the NHLE for: WORKS - WORKSHOP — A building or room used for small scale manufacture. Use more specific term where possible.
Search the NHLE for: WORKSHOP - WORSTED MILL — A factory where worsted, a well-twisted woollen yarn made from long staple wool and used in the manufacture of suits and other garments, was produced.
Search the NHLE for: WORSTED MILL - WRECK — The remains of a vessel which has either sunk or suffered structural damage to the extent where it can no longer function.
Search the NHLE for: WRECK - WRESTLING RING — An area where the sport of wrestling takes place.
Search the NHLE for: WRESTLING RING
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- XYZ HUT — A prefabricated timber structure similar to Sectional hutting that was used by the Air Ministry for accommodation at airfields during WWII. Manufactured by Gerrard and Sons from 1939 to 1941.
Search the NHLE for: XYZ HUT
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- Y STATION
Search the NHLE for: Y STATION - YARD — A paved area, generally found at the back of a house.
Search the NHLE for: YARD - YARD MARKER — An earthwork or structure on a rifle range used to mark a set distance from the rifle butts (usually at 50 or 100 yard intervals).
Search the NHLE for: YARD MARKER - YARN DRY HOUSE — A heated room or building used to dry yarn after it has been washed.
Search the NHLE for: YARN DRY HOUSE - YARN HOUSE — A building associated with rope manufacture, especially in naval dockyards.
Search the NHLE for: YARN HOUSE - YARN MILL — A building containing machinery for the spinning of yarn.
Search the NHLE for: YARN MILL - YARN PREPARATION WORKS — Works where yarn is prepared prior to spinning.
Search the NHLE for: YARN PREPARATION WORKS - YEW GARDEN — A garden where yew and other coniferous trees are grown.
Search the NHLE for: YEW GARDEN - YEW WALK — A garden walk lined with yew trees and hedges.
Search the NHLE for: YEW WALK - YOUTH CLUB — A place provided for leisure-time activities of young people.
Search the NHLE for: YOUTH CLUB - YOUTH COURT — A magistrates court sitting for the purpose of holding trials for children and young people. Replaced the juvenile court, following legislation, in 1991.
Search the NHLE for: YOUTH COURT - YOUTH HOSTEL — A place where (young) holiday-makers and hikers can be put up cheaply for the night.
Search the NHLE for: YOUTH HOSTEL
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- Z BATTERY — An anti aircraft battery armed with 3 inch rockets with a ceiling of 22,000 feet. Both single and multiple launchers were designed. Single launchers being used to defend vulnerable points such as coastal batteries with multiple launchers defending town.
Search the NHLE for: Z BATTERY - Z STATION
Search the NHLE for: Z STATION - ZEBRA CROSSING — A path across a road marked with black and white stripes where pedestrians may cross.
Search the NHLE for: ZEBRA CROSSING - ZINC MINE — A mine used for the extraction of zinc bearing ore. Use with other metal ores extracted and MINE where necessary, eg. LEAD MINE.
Search the NHLE for: ZINC MINE - ZINC WORKS — A site used for the extraction of metallic zinc by a variety of processes.
Search the NHLE for: ZINC WORKS - ZOO — A garden or park, with ancilliary buildings, in which wild animals are kept and reared for public exhibition.
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