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    A sett, also known as a block or Belgian block, is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. Formerly in widespread use,...
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  • badgers, usually consisting of a network of tunnels. Sett or SETT may also refer to: Sett (paving), a shaped piece of rock used to make hard surfaces for...
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    3%) with light asphalt road clothing, 15,713 km (18,2%) stone paving (such as sett paving or cobblestone roads) and 8,014  km (9,3%) dirt roads. Regarding...
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    cobbles, pitches or setts than tarmac or asphalt. Cobblestones set in sand have the environmental advantage of being permeable paving, and of moving rather...
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  • (disambiguation) Pavé, a stonesetting method Pavê, a Brazilian dessert Sett (paving), a kind of cobblestone road surface (from the French pavé meaning "cobblestoned")...
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    Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can...
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    Road surface (redirect from Street paving)
    superficial surface covering. Paving materials include asphalt, concrete, stones such as flagstone, cobblestone, and setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles...
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    soft". Notable features of the route were the fifth stage's sections of sett paving, the five high altitude stage finishes and the lack time trialling, with...
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    A paver is a paving stone, tile, brick or brick-like piece of concrete commonly used as exterior flooring. They are generally placed on top of a foundation...
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    Delgada, Azores Portugal Portuguese pavement incorporating pavement lights Sett (paving) Mosaic Terrazzo Engineered stone Prof. Ricardo Cunha Teixeira. Artigo...
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    astronomy, mechanics, mathematics Agriculture: the Four Seasons The coloured sett paving which was laid around the memorial in 1987 depicts floral representations...
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    and 2016 respectively. Notable was stage nine's 21.7 km (13.5 mi) of sett paving, split across fifteen sectors, a feature that was last seen in the 2015...
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  • 3%) with light asphalt road clothing, 15,713 km (18,2%) stone paving (such as sett paving or cobblestone roads) and 8,014  km (9,3%) dirt roads. Motorways...
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    the first barricades were raised, the students recognized that the stone setts were placed atop sand. The slogan encapsulated the movement's views on urbanization...
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    cement at 93 °C (200 °F). Paving and compaction must be performed while the asphalt is sufficiently hot. In many locales paving is restricted to summer...
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    with some not damaged at all, but water-bound macadam surfaces and sett paving without concrete underlay were vulnerable to rutting and other issues...
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    patron, Alexander VII. The paving is varied by radiating lines in travertine, to relieve what might otherwise be a sea of setts. In 1817 circular stones...
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    bullhead rail set on chaired sleepers with open ballast, but using granite sett paving in the station forecourt. The line started at the station with a short...
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    include concrete, decorative brick, cobblestone, block paving, asphalt, gravel, resin-bound paving, and decomposed granite. These materials may be surrounded...
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  • and Ireland, while in 1899 it became the Street Masons, Paviors, Stone and Sett Dressers Society. Membership peaked at 893 in 1900, then began a gradual...
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    was quarried at Rubislaw quarry for more than 300 years, and used for paving setts, kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental pieces...
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    used as a burial ground. As a result of relaying the 19th century granite sett stones, shallow excavations of the foundations revealed remains of a building...
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    Granite (section Paving)
    and the Stawamus Chief, British Columbia, Canada. Granite was used for setts on the St. Louis riverfront and for the piers of the Eads Bridge (background)...
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    The British House of Commons passed a series of Paving Acts from the 18th century. The 1766 Paving & Lighting Act authorized the City of London Corporation...
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    faster movement between cities and as a consequence of improvements in paving processes, techniques and materials. These original high-speed roads were...
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    in 1817) is now marked by the Heart of Midlothian, a heart-shaped sett in the paving of Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The only remaining part of the Old Tolbooth...
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  • Natural Stone Paving (2010) - "We've Paved the Monopoly Board" - Limited edition of 250 sets manufactured for Marshalls Natural Stone Paving. Each traditional...
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    science to road building. A Frenchman from an engineering family, he worked paving roads in Paris from 1757 to 1764. As chief engineer of road construction...
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    were burnt at the stake just outside the city wall. A cross of granite setts in the road opposite Balliol College marks the location. Nearby in St Giles'...
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    storm sewers, again to allow the runoff to soak into the ground. Permeable paving materials can be used in building sidewalks, driveways and in some cases...
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