Some 30 or 40 boats were using the canal in the 1790s, although the turves were transferred to larger vessels for onward passage along the Don.
22.
The subsoil layers under Northfield, West Heath and Turves Green also contains a coal seam that would indicate that an extensive prehistoric tropical forest once existed here.
23.
Tin bounds were created by the miner ( or'bounder') pitching stones or turves at the four corners of the land he intended to work.
24.
The walls of the houses were originally made of turves, clay or wood, most of the houses that survive today, however, have brick walls.
25.
Turves Green, which effectively forms part of the West Heath-Northfield boundary was known as Turvosland in 1490 and was the site for peat-cutting for fuel.
26.
In 1910, the Impeys moved to " The Island ", a large house in West Heath situated between Turves Green and West Heath Road, but moved away when Frederick Impey died in 1920.
27.
This method is supplemented by mechanical measures such as mowing, or the cutting of turves, a method known as " Plaggen ", and the controlled use of burning during the winter months.
28.
The formal beginnings of Dalbeattie originate in 1781 when George Maxwell of Munches and Alexander Copeland of Kingsgrange ( or Colliston ) decided to encourage the development of the town by turves ( peat ) from Aucheninnes Moss.
29.
The result was that five areas of land, totalling, were set aside for the benefit of the occupiers of certain cottages " in lieu of their Rights or pretended Rights or customs in cutting Turves ".
30.
On the road, Turves Green there is a small shopping centre with a Cooperative shop and a Dental technician among others, near those shops are more post war council houses, maisonettes and flats with further tower blocks.
