Geo-Ambles site list and map to print if you wish. Use the list to tick off the sites you have visited.
On the map below use the scroll wheel on your mouse or double left or double right click on the map to zoom in or out. Switch ‘satellite’ on to see a pictorial view. On the table below the map click on a site name to jump to it’s tag on the map, click more details to see the data sheet for that site or you may click on a map tag itself to short cut this process.
Quarry Farmhouse Exposure, Penny Hill
SILURIAN (Wenlock) / Much Wenlock Limestone Formation ?and/or Coalbrookdale Formation
PERMIAN (Cisuralian) / Warwickshire Group / Haffield Breccia Formation. Permission needed
PERMIAN (Cisuralian) / Warwickshire Group / Haffield Breccia Formation. Permission Needed.
SILURIAN (Wenlock) / Much Wenlock Limestone Formation. The quarry contains many exposures, the one near the workshops being probably the most important. Permission needed to view.
SILURIAN (Wenlock) / ?Much Wenlock Limestone Formation OR Coalbrookdale Formation.
TRIASSIC / Mercia Mudstone Group and Sherwood Sandstone Group / Bromsgrove Sandstone Fmn.
TRIASSIC / Mercia Mudstone Group - but very close to the faulted boundaries with the Silurian Raglan Mudstone and Coalbrookdale Formations.
The sunken Kingswood Lane (a holloway) shows exposures of Triassic, Bromsgrove Sandstone Fmn
Triassic, Mercian Mudstone. The land of Tomkins Farm exhibits many small depressions, source of good brick making clay. Permission needed.
Three circular depressions--old 'bell' coal pits in a small area of the Carboniferous on the hill. Permission needed
Ranging over 470 million years, Martley Rock shows five geological periods. There are interpretation boards and a visitors' book.
Permian overlying Silurian, Wenlock Fmn, with Bentonite. Permission needed.