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The rock is Silurian siltstone and there are various antiquities (ancient cairns... (more)

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The sides of the dale are mainly Carboniferous limestone but much of the floor... (more)

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A sunken lane has exposed the limestone, similar to that found in North Herefordshire.

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Informal quarries such as this used to provide all the local requirements for... (more)

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Almost every farm used to have a small quarry where stone was obtained for local... (more)

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On rough pasture with outcrops of Silurian Slate, this is the public bridleway... (more)

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On rough pasture with outcrops of Silurian Slate, this is the public bridleway... (more)

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Rocky outcrops of Silurian Slate and windblown trees characterise this area of... (more)

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The south beach and breakwater for the harbour. The object just visible on the... (more)

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At Martley, rocks from seven geological time zone can be found with a small... (more)

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The river has taken a sharp turn as it has come up against harder rock. The rock... (more)

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The river has taken a sharp turn as it has come up against harder rock. The rock... (more)

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The river has taken a sharp turn as it has come up against harder rock. The rock... (more)

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Fossilised Silurian coral on the lip of an actual climbable crag (or it was... (more)

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Below and east of the top are some quite large slabs of Silurian rock which have... (more)

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Looking across the valley of Lupton Beck from the Carboniferous limestone of... (more)

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The great limestone ridge which includes Wenlock Edge to the northeast takes a... (more)

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With an exposure of steeply dipping layers of very old rock - Silurian I believe.

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The moor is a rough little wilderness of bracken, heather and rock outcrops with... (more)

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The point is a spur of Silurian rock which sticks out into the estuary forming... (more)

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The banding in the Silurian siltstone is picked out in the evening sun.

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This crag dominates the A590 appearing for a while as a pointed, rocky peak... (more)

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The long ridge of Newton Fell is composed of Silurian siltstone in common with... (more)

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Ali is standing on the topmost rocks of the un-named 221m summit due east of... (more)

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Several small outcrops of what looks like Silurian-age rock are probably... (more)

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Erratic boulders of older Silurian rock can be found scattered over the... (more)

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The 'hill' is merely an upstanding rocky knoll that rises a few metres... (more)

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The Dent Fault (discovered by Adam Sedgwick, a Cambridge professor of Geology... (more)

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The Helm is composed of Upper Silurian aged Kirkby Moor Flagstones and is... (more)

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This large rock of Silurian slate has been dumped here by glacial ice. Sitting... (more)

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There are many outcrops of Silurian slate scattered around the floor of the... (more)

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Land which has been cleared for development has been dug to provide a rock... (more)

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In Glan Conwy rock is seldom far from the surface. Here a rather degraded,... (more)

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The Cumbria Way follows the public footpath from Stockbridge Lane to Old Hall... (more)

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Formerly the A590 road, this is the walking route from Ulverston Station to the... (more)

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The limestone ridge that runs from Severn to Wye straightens out again after the... (more)

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A Wenlock Edge quarry on one of the National Trust's waymarked paths.

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A limestone quarry which was active in the 1980s. Now a storage site for timber.

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A green lane leading up to Wenlock Edge from Much Wenlock. How we got the... (more)

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Some of the Wenlock limestone quarries were working until a few years ago,

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At the top of one of the Ippikin's Rock crag. A rare event on the great... (more)

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View along the limestone ridges from Croft Ambrey.

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A view over Ludlow from the edge of a steep limestone scarp, the result of faulting.

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There is so little rock evident in this vast area of moorland that even small... (more)

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The rock has a fairly fresh, unweathered look which suggests it may have been... (more)

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