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DINTON, BUCKS,

 

Geological reports show that there were ”coprolite works on the top of the hill” at Dinton, (GR.789090) just east of Ford, near Moreton, but there was no indication when it was in operation. The majority of Bucks. coprolite workings were during the 1870s and 1880s ran by Mr Wilkinson (sic) of Leighton Buzzard as manager of the Wolverhampton Manure Works of Sir John Morris and Alfred Griffin but there were other contractors in the region who may also have been involved here. (Jukes-Browne, A.J.,’Cretaceous Rocks of Great Britain,’ Mem.Geol.Surv. 1900,p.430)