Elland flags are sandstones interbedded with mudstones and siltstones in the Lower Coal Measures of West Yorkshire. The flags were extensively quarried and mined in the Leeds, …

The Elland Flags consist of fine- to medium-grained flaggy to thickly bedded micaceous sandstone. The unit occurs as a number of sandstone leaves that are interbedded with dark …

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a very large industry developed in West Yorkshire exploiting the sandstones of the Millstone Grit (Namurian) and the Coal Measures …

Elland retained continuity of tenure from before the Norman Conquest into the Middle Ages, as the Elland family were descended from Anglo-Saxon thegns. The Manor of Elland, with Greetland …

Educationally, it is a good site to demonstrate bedding, lithologies, textures and structures, as well as its historical importance. The rocks in the area are a fine grained, buff coloured sandstone …

Mining in the Elland Flags: A Forgotten Yorkshire Industry BGS reports, British Geological Survey, ISSN 0950-9313: Author: C. G. Godwin: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: H.M. Stationery Office,...

The Elland Flags.—The Elland Flags, so named by Green and his colleagues and originally described by Phillips as the Flagstone Rock, constitute a well-marked and clearly defined …

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The fine-grained sandstone quarried from this area was from the Elland Flags and was known as Harehills Stone. The blocks decorated with the distinctive Harehills Tooling are thought to be …

The exposure illustrates the fine grained, micaceous nature of the Elland Flags, which allows the stone to be worked for flags, slates and building blocks. The approach to the quarries is along …