Monthly Archives: March 2009

Making Yorkstone Sawn Paving

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Yorkstone Sawn Paving Yorkstone sawn paving has only been available since the introduction and evolution of machinery in yorkstone quarrys, all the yorkstone paving stones that were originally laid in towns and citys was riven naturally before the stone saws were introduced. See how Yorkstone sawn paving is made from the large ashlar stone blocks […]

Yorkstone History

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Yorkstone has been quarried since the 1400’s and in the 18th and 19th centuries a very large industry developed exploiting the sandstones (Yorkstone) of the Millstone Grit ‘Namurian’ and the coal measures ‘westphalian’ for Masonry, Flagstones and for Roofing know locally as thackstones or Grey Slate. The Yorkstone Quarries or Delves first worked the outcrop […]

Yorkstone

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Find yorkstone  and yorkstone products used in today’s Construction, Building, DIY and Gardening projects including, yorkstone paving, yorkstone riven paving yorkstone sawn paving, yorkstone walling and other york stone related products. Yorkstone is a natural stone of very high quality and durability, it is a sedimentary sandstone formed over 300 million years ago in the […]