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Foster Yeoman

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Foster Yeoman Limited, based in the United Kingdom, was one of Europe's largest independent quarrying and asphalt companies, but is now part of Aggregate Industries, owned by the Swiss construction materials conglomerate Holcim. [1]

30 relations: Aggregate Industries, Asphalt, Botley railway station, Channel Tunnel, Construction, Construction aggregate, Cranmore, Somerset, Dulcote Quarry, Frome, Glensanda, Hampshire, Hanson (company), Hartlepool, Holcim, Iron, Listed building, M25 motorway, Marston Bigot, Marston Bigot Park, Mendip Rail, Oban, Quarry, Shaft mining, Steel, Thames Barrier, Torr Works, United Kingdom, Wells, Somerset, World War I, World War II.

Aggregate Industries

Aggregate Industries, a member of LafargeHolcim, is a company based in the United Kingdom with headquarters at Bardon Hill, Coalville, Leicestershire.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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Botley railway station

Botley railway station serves Botley in Hampshire, England, on the line between Eastleigh and Fareham.

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Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel (Le tunnel sous la Manche; also nicknamed the Chunnel) is a rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.

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Construction

Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure.

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Construction aggregate

Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of coarse to medium grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates.

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Cranmore, Somerset

Cranmore is a village and civil parish east of Shepton Mallet, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England.

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Dulcote Quarry

Dulcote Quarry, was a limestone quarry at Dulcote, near Wells on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.

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Frome

Frome is a town and civil parish in eastern Somerset, England.

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Glensanda

Glensanda (Old Norse, the glen of the sandy river) was a Viking settlement at the mouth of Glen Sanda on the Morvern peninsula within south west Lochaber, overlooking the Isle of Lismore and Loch Linnhe in the western Highlands of Scotland.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Hanson (company)

Hanson Limited, formerly Hanson Trust plc, is a British based international building materials company, headquartered in Maidenhead.

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Hartlepool

Hartlepool is a town in County Durham, England.

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Holcim

Holcim is a Swiss-based global building materials and aggregates company.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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M25 motorway

The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a motorway that encircles almost all of Greater London, England (with the exception of North Ockendon), in the United Kingdom.

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Marston Bigot

Marston Bigot is a small village near Nunney and south of Frome in Somerset, England.

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Marston Bigot Park

Marston Bigot Park encompasses approximately and includes Marston House, Marston Pond and the remains of the medieval shrunken village of Lower Marston.

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Mendip Rail

Mendip Rail Ltd is an independent freight operating railway company in Great Britain.

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Oban

Oban (An t-Òban in Scottish Gaelic meaning The Little Bay) is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Shaft mining

Shaft mining or shaft sinking is excavating a vertical or near-vertical tunnel from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Thames Barrier

The Thames Barrier prevents the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea.

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Torr Works

Torr Works quarry, is a limestone quarry at East Cranmore, near Shepton Mallet on the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Wells, Somerset

Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Yeoman

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