Radcliffe School, Wolverton, Milton Keynes 7/13
Radley-Abingdon railway branch line 2/3
railings, iron 13/6, 7
railway stations
  Blisworth, Nhants 6/7, 8, 11; 16/1A
  Higham Ferrers, Nhants 12/39-40
  Irthlingborough, Nhants 11/30
  Rushton, Nhants 13/13
  Stamford, Lincs 9/16
  Towcester 7/5; 9/11
railways
  ballast, ironworking slag used for 11/22, 24
  Bedfordshire, planned but not built 1844-1910 8/14
  Board of Trade safeguards 9/2; 11/14-15
  canal bed used for track 2/4
  cast iron furniture 11/27
  companies see Blisworth (railways; Blisworth Hill);
      Buscot Park (Light Railway); Cheltenham and Great Western Union
      Railway 8/2; 9/4; East and West Junction Railway 7/5; Eastern
      Counties Railway, Ely-Peterborough branch 6/9; Easton Neston Mineral
      & Towcester, Roade and Olney Junction Railway 7/5; Edenham and Little
      Bytham Railway, Lincs 9/16; Festiniog Railway 6/14; 10/14; Great
      Northern Railway 11/16, 40; Great Western Railway; Iron Horse Railway
      of Leighton Buzzard, Beds 7/11; 10/14; Leagrave and Luton Light
      Railway, Beds 6/13; 8/14; 9/1-2; Leighton Buzzard (Leighton Buzzard
      and Hitchin Light Railway; Leighton Buzzard Light Railway); Light
      Railway Commissioners 11/14, 15; London and Birmingham Railway;
      London and North Western Railway; Metropolitan Railway 9/2;
      Midland Railway; Newport Railway Company 2/4; Northampton and Banbury
      Junction railway 6/8; 7/5; Northampton and Peterborough Railway
      13/17; 16/1A; Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway 16/8;
      Quainton Railway Preservation Centre, Bucks 14/29-30; Radley-Abingdon
      railway branch line 2/3;
      Stratford-on-Avon, Towcester and Midland Junction Railway;
      Stratford-on-Avon and Midland Junction Railway;
      Towcester (Towcester-Ravenstonewood Junction Railway)
  farm, Cote, Oxon 9/18
  horse-drawn 6/3; 10/18
  opposition to 7/15
  overhead cable, Tilehurst-Reading brickworks 11/12
  works see under Blisworth; Finedon; Wolverton
  see also locomotives; plateways; railway stations; wagons; and under
      Abingdon; Banbury; Blisworth; Buscot Park; Cogenhoe; Corby; Cransley;
      Desborough; Duston; Hardingstone; Heyford; Hunsbury Hill; Irchester;
      Irthlingborough; Leighton Buzzard; Loddington; Nassington;
      Northampton; Peterborough; Roade; Stowe Nine Churches; Sundon;
      Towcester; Wroxton
Rainesford, Mr, of Clack Mill, Vigo, Northampton 12/32
Randall, Adrian; 'The Kettering Worsted Industry of the 18th Century'
    (reviewed) 15/13-14
Randall, George, miller of Isham, Nhants 12/28
Ransome, J. Wilmer, engineer of Cheapside 11/40
Ransomes threshing drum 6/12
Ratcliffe, Thomas, of Albion Brewery, Northampton 14/19, 27
Ratcliffe & Jeffery, of Albion Brewery, Northampton 14/19, 21, 27
Raunds, Nhants
  brewery 14/17, 24
  brickworks 13/11, 21-2; Raunds Manor 13/9, 10, 11, 21-2
  limekiln 13/21, 22
  tramways 13/21
  watermill 12/33
  windmill 12/13, 17
Raunds Ironstone and Limestone Co 13/21
Ravensthorpe, Nhants; reservoir 12/24
  see also Coton
Ravenstonewood, Nhants; Towcester-Ravenstonewood Junction Railway 7/6
Reading
  Colliers Brickworks 3/2; 6/13; 11/5, 12
  clay pits 11/12
  courses at WEA centre 12/39
  Museum of English Rural Life 9/16
  overhead cable railway 11/12
recession, late 1920s 11/29, 32
record-keeping 15/6-8
  National Record of Industrial Monuments 5/5-6; 10/12; 11/35; 13/2; 15/16
Redbrinks Quarry, near Islip, Nhants 10/15
Redditch needle mill 12/2
Redwell, Nhants see Wellingborough
Reeve, John, miller of Maidford, Nhants 12/30
refrigeration, Phipps' Brewery, Northampton
  Halls of Dartford system 14/22
  Lind system 14/22
reservoirs
  Buscot Park, Oxon 6/2, 3; 7/2-3
  Coate, Wilts 8/2-3
  Hollowell, Nhants 13/16
  Ravensthorpe 12/24
Reynolds, A. 8/15; 10/14-15
Reynolds, D., of Sywell Aero Club 10/14
Reynolds, John; Windmills and Watermills (reviewed) 15/17
Reynolds, Thomas, Nhants brickmaker 13/14
Rice, William, Northampton iron founder 15/5, 6
Rice & Co, Northampton iron founders 12/5
Richards, Geoffrey; 'Northampton Electricity Supply up to 1920' 16/13A-14
Richards, H.C., MP, barrister 11/14
Rickett, Thomas; steam engines 4/3
Riden, Philip J. 15/15
Rider, K., letter from 11/35; 12/42
Ridgway, Richard Lines, miller of Thrapston, Nhants 12/35
Ringstead, Nhants
  ironstone quarries 11/18
  stone sleeper blocks 15/10
  watermill 12/21, 33
Rippin, Thomas, brewer of Titchmarsh, Nhants 14/24, 27
Rivers, John 13/32
Rixon, George, Nhants brickmaker 13/19
Rixon, James & Co, brickmakers of Wellingborough, Nhants 13/26
Rixon, John, brickmaker of Billing, Nhants 13/12
Rixon's Iron and Brick Co Ltd, Wellingborough, Nhants 11/29; 13/12
road-making, use of Nhants slag for 11/24, 25
road rollers, steam 6/9, 12
Roade, Nhants
  brickworks 13/22
  dovecote 9/12
  London and Birmingham Railway 6/11
  windmill 12/13, 17
roads see individual numbers and turnpikes
Roberts, Edmund, of Weedon, Nhants 13/26
Roberts, Fred 7/11-12; 11/37; 12/39; 14/29
  'A Brief Survey of Brickwork Sites in West Berkshire' 16/2-6
Roberts, William, Northampton iron founder 12/4, 6
Roberts of Deanshanger 6/2
Roberts of Northampton, clay tobacco pipe manufacturers 7/13
Robinson family, millers of Kingsthorpe, Northampton 12/29
Robinson, George, miller of Yarwell, Nhants 12/38
Robinson, Joseph, miller of Moulton, Nhants 12/30
Rockingham Forest, Nhants
  charcoal burning 11/17
  early ironworking 11/17
  tanning bark 15/13
  watermill 12/21, 33
Rodknight, William, brickmaker of Syresham, Nhants 13/24
Rogers, James, miller of Passenham, Nhants 12/32
roller mills
  Banbury 1/3
  Samuelson, in Billing Museum 9/16
  Sonning Mill, Wokingham 8/14
rollers, steam 6/9, 12
rolling mills, Corby, Nhants 11/32
Rollings, Geoffrey 12/2
Rolt, Tom 7/2
Roman period 12/41-2
  ironworking 11/17; 12/9-10; 13/28
  kiln, Heath and Reach, Beds 10/13-14
  villas 12/41-2
rope walk, Wantage, Oxon 3/2
ropeways, aerial
  Earls Barton, Nhants 10/14
  Towcester, Nhants 13/25
Rose, Mrs Anne, brewer of Kettering, Nhants 14/14, 27
Rotherfield Greys, Oxon; Greys Court donkey wheel 4/2
Rothersthorpe, Nhants
  brickworks 13/22
  P Dickens' collection of steam machinery 6/9
  dovecote 9/12
  locks on Grand Union Canal 2/5
  watermill 12/33
  windmill 12/13, 17
Rothwell, Nhants
  brewery 14/17, 24
  brickworks 13/10, 13, 14, 22-3
  Charter Fair 12/9
  steam joinery works 13/13
  tramway 13/23
  watermill 12/21, 33
  windmills 12/13, 17
Rousselot Gelatine Ltd 12/23
Rowles, Mr, of Brixworth, Nhants 15/9
Rowsham, Bucks; pump with horse wheel 6/2
Rugby area, stationary prime movers in 3/1
rush collar and matting manufacture, Islip, Nhants 8/15
Rush Mills, Hardingstone, Nhants 9/15; 12/21, 34
Rushden, Nhants 12/39-40
  boot and shoe manufacture 12/40
  brickworks 13/11, 23
  fair 12/9
  mineral water companies 12/40
  sand pit 13/23
  tramways 13/23
  watermill 12/34
  windmills 12/13, 17, 40
  Windward Bicycle Company 12/40
Rusholms report on canals 9/13
Rushton, Nhants
  dovecote 9/12
  Glendon ironstone quarries 11/21
  leather processing 12/34
  railway station 13/13
  watermill 12/21, 34
Rushton, R. 13/30
Russell family, millers of Dodford, Nhants 12/25
Ruston machinery
  crane-cum-navvy 10/15
  excavator 10/15
  gas engines 16/13
Ruston-Bucyrus petrol motor digger 10/11
Ruston & Hornsby engines
  Akroyd type oil type engine 13/3
  diesel locomotives 13/27
  paraffin engine 13/31
Ryland, John (cartographer) 14/4