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The Shropshire RIGS Group have selected the following sites on the basis of nationally agreed criteria, such as scientific value, educational interest and historical importance, and with good enough access to make them worthwhile for registration.
The presence of a site on this list does not necessarily imply open or public access. Please investigate the situation at a particular site (including access by public rights of way and arrangements for car parking) before visiting. The Shropshire Geological Society cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the information provided or for your safety when visiting the sites listed here.
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Location |
Stratigraphy |
Areas of Interest |
Grid Reference |
Site Details |
Hillend Quarry / Hillend Farm (W) |
Silurian: Llandovery Series (Lower): Pentamerus Beds. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 396 876 |
Site Details |
Onny River Section |
Unconformity between Ordovician (Caradoc: Onny Shales) and Silurian (Upper Llandovery: Hughley Shales) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 425 854 |
Site Details |
Upper Millichope |
Silurian: Lower Ludlow: Lower and Middle Elton Formation (ref.1). |
Fossils |
SO 519 897 to SO 521 893 |
Site Details |
View Edge Quarries |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Aymestry Group (BGS SO48, Craven Arms). |
Fossils |
SO 426 807 |
Site Details |
Cornbrook Dingle |
Carboniferous: Cornbrook Sandstone Formation. |
Petrology and Stratigraphy |
SO 602 758 to 603 755 |
Site Details |
Hope Valley |
Ordovician (Hope Shales) and Silurian (Llandovery Venusbank Formation). |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 342 015 to 357 021 |
Site Details |
Snailbeach Mine |
Ordovician: Arenig Series: Mytton Flags (BGS 1: 25000 Shelve Area). |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 375 023 |
Site Details |
Black Garn, Chapel Lawn |
Silurian: Downtonian (Platyschisma beds according to the information on the Favoured list). |
Structure |
SO 297 758 |
Site Details |
Corndon Hill |
Ordovician: Llanvirn Series: Hope Group and Pre-Silurian dolerite (BGS Shelve Area 1:25000). |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 305 969 (GR summit). |
Site Details |
Withins Bury Ditches, Clun (Brookbath) |
Silurian: Cefn Einion Formation, Platychisma Beds and Downton Castle Sandstone (ref.1). |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 317 836 |
Site Details |
Tasker Quarry |
Ordovician: Llanvirn: Stapeley Volcanics Group and Stapeley Shales. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 325 956 |
Site Details |
Shelve Farm |
Ordovician: Arenig Series: Mytton Flags. |
Fossils |
SO 335 990 |
Site Details |
Stiperstones, The Rock |
Ordovician: Arenig Series: Shelve Group: Stiperstones Quartzite. |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SO 351 964 |
Site Details |
Gripes Nest, Hopton |
Silurian: Bailey Hill Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 352 764 |
Site Details |
Stiperstones, Nipstone Rock |
Ordovician: Arenig Series: Shelve Group: Stiperstones Quartzite. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 357 970 |
Site Details |
Bog Mine |
Ordovician |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 357 978 |
Site Details |
Poles Coppice |
Ordovician: Arenig Series: Shelve Group: Stiperstones Quartzite (BGS Shelve Area). |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 390 046 |
Site Details |
Edgton Farm [also called Edgton Farm (Dunslow)] |
Silurian: Ludlow Shales. |
Fossils |
SO 390 858 |
Site Details |
Burrow Hill Fort |
Silurian: Ludlow Series (undivided W of C/S fault, BGS Sheet 166). |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SO 382 831 |
Site Details |
Top of Halford Wood |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Aymestry Group |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SO 448 837 |
Site Details |
Ludford Corner |
Silurian: Ludlow Series, transition to Pridoli Series. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 513 742 |
Site Details |
Lurkenhope |
Silurian: Ludlow Series (ref.1). |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 288 742 |
Site Details |
Selley Hall (vicinity) |
Silurian: Ludlow Series (BGS Wales 1:250000 |
Structure |
SO 271 768 |
Site Details |
Tournett |
Silurian: Upper Ludlow Series |
Fossils |
SO 322 732 |
Site Details |
Bedstone Hill |
Silurian: Cefn Einon Formation. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 348 759 |
Site Details |
Hopton Park |
Silurian: Bailey Hill Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 358 777 |
Site Details |
Swan Hill (Shrops) |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Aymestry Group. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 413 775 to 415 777 |
Site Details |
Shelderton Rock |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Aymestry Group. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 418 778 |
Site Details |
Onibury Hale Bank Quarry |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Upper Ludlow Shales. (Previous report; Lower & Upper Whitcliffe Group). |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 453 794 |
Site Details |
Clive Cottages Quarry, Whitcliffe, Ludlow |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Whitcliffe Beds. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 505 746 |
Site Details |
Colstey (Bury Ditches W) |
Silurian: Cefn Einion Formation. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 305 839 |
Site Details |
Croveats Lane, Clun (NE) |
Silurian: Downton (Ludlow Bone Bed) according to ref.1. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 313 819 |
Site Details |
Acton Bank |
Silurian: Cefn Einion Formation. |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 314 851 |
Site Details |
Colebatch (W) |
Silurian: Bailey Hill Formation (ref.1). |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 315 874 |
Site Details |
Stepple Knoll (N) |
Silurian: Cefn Einion Formation. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 322 834 |
Site Details |
Stepple Farm (N) |
Silurian: Knucklas Castle Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 325 831 |
Site Details |
Bury Ditches (SSW) |
Silurian: Cefn Einion Formation? |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 325 834 |
Site Details |
Bury Ditches Dawes Lines |
Silurian: Knucklas Castle Formation to Cefn Einion Formation. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 329 636 to SO 325 834 |
Site Details |
Bury Ditches Clun (SE) |
Silurian: Knucklas Castle Formation. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 329 836 |
Site Details |
Bury Ditches Clun (E) |
Silurian: Cefn Einion Formation. |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SO 329 838 |
Site Details |
Bury Ditches car-park (W) |
Silurian: Knucklas Castle Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 334 840 to SO 329 835 |
Site Details |
Stank Lane Quarry |
Silurian: Bailey Hill Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 349 872 |
Site Details |
Purslow (W) |
Silurian: Bailey Hill Formation. |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 352 811 |
Site Details |
Kempton (NW) |
Silurian: Bailey Hill Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 353 834 |
Site Details |
Oaker Wood (S) |
Silurian: Ludlow Series (upper, ref.1). |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 378 815 |
Site Details |
Ridgeway Hill |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Edgton Limestone (BGS Sheet 166). |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 397 865 |
Site Details |
Horderley |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Edgton Limestone (Equivalent to Wenlock Limestone and Tickwood beds) or calcareous Wenlock Shales? (BGS SO48, Craven Arms 1:25000). |
Fossils |
SO 408 871 |
Site Details |
Longville Plantation (S) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Chatwall Sandstone and Chatwall Flags (transition). |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 410 852 |
Site Details |
High Wood (N) (Longville Plantation south) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Chatwall Sandstone. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 412 851 |
Site Details |
Onny Valley |
Unconformity between Ordovician (Caradoc: Hoar Edge Grit) and Precambrian (Longmyndian). |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 412 861 on list (SO 411 861 in ref.1) |
Site Details |
Smeathen (ESE) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Chatwall Sandstone. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 413 859 |
Site Details |
Horderley Quarries (MS) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Chatwall (Horderley) Sandstone. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 415 859 |
Site Details |
Cheney Longville (W) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Cheney Longville Flags. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 419 849 |
Site Details |
River Onny (railway) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Alternata Limestone |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 418 857 (SO 418 856 in ref.1) |
Site Details |
River Onny (A) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Acton Scott Group. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 421 855 |
Site Details |
Horderley Quarries (SE) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Chatwall (Horderley) Sandstone Alternata Limestone and Chatwall Flags. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 421 857 |
Site Details |
Moorwood Scarp (Strefford Wood) |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Tickwood Beds and Wenlock Limestone |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 453 856 |
Site Details |
Upper Westhope (S) |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Aymestry Group |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 479 864 (also 482 863) |
Site Details |
Whittery Quarry |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Whittery Volcanics and Shales (ref.1). |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 274 981 |
Site Details |
Bergams Corner |
Ordovician: Shelve Group: Mytton Flags and intrusive dolerite. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 356 998 |
Site Details |
Norbury Quarry |
Silurian: Llandovery Series: Pentamerus Sandstone (BGS Shelve Inlier, 1:25000). |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 359 928 |
Site Details |
Bury Ditches (N) |
Silurian: Ludlow Series (undivided) (BGS Wales Map 1:250000) |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 328 841 |
Site Details |
Shelderton |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Aymestry Group. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 418 779 |
Site Details |
Whitcliffe (W) and Teme Bank |
Silurian: Ludlow Series: Whitcliffe Beds. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 504 745 and SO 506 744 to 512 741 |
Site Details |
Hillend Cottage (E) |
Silurian: Llandovery Series (Upper): Pentamerus Beds. |
Fossils |
SO 394 875 |
Site Details |
Onny Valley (old river cliff) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Cheney Longville Flags. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 420 854 |
Site Details |
River Onny (railway) |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Chatwall Sandstone (highest). |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 417 857 |
Site Details |
Glenburrell railway bridge |
Ordovician: Caradoc: Chatwall Sandstone. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 413 860 |
Site Details |
Coundmoor Track |
Main exposure is Precambrian (Uriconian Volcanics) but there are small exposures of Ordovician (Hoar Edge Grit and Harnage Shale; Caradoc Series) and what appears to be Lower Ordovician (Sheinton Shale; Tremadoc). |
Structure and Stratigraphy/Stratigraphy |
SJ 553 035 to SJ 559 036 |
Site Details |
Coundmoor Brook |
Upper Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Harnage Shale. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 558 034 to 559 037 |
Site Details |
Rushton |
Precambrian: Rushton Schists. Special Sheet 60 - Telford. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 604 082 |
Site Details |
Wenlock Edge (N) (Edgefield Quarry) |
Silurian: Wenlock Limestone (reef facies). Special Sheet 60 - Telford. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 608 001 to 609 000 |
Site Details |
Harley Hill road quarry |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Tickwood Beds (Special Sheet 60 - Telford), now known as the Farley Member. These are beds transitional between Coalbrookdale Formation and Much Wenlock Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 6100 0035 |
Site Details |
Windmill Hill |
Silurian: Wenlock Limestone. Special Sheet 60 - Telford. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 624 008 |
Site Details |
Wrekin Summit (Wrekin Hill) |
Precambrian: Uriconian Volcanics. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 627 079 |
Site Details |
Wrekin Hill |
Mostly Precambrian (Uriconian Volcanics) with Cambrian (Wrekin Quartzite) on the SE flanks. (Special Sheet 60 - Telford.) |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 628 081 |
Site Details |
Farley Dingle |
Silurian: Farley Member (Tickwood Beds); Special Sheet 60 - Telford and Telford memoir. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 637 026 |
Site Details |
Buildwas Sand Quarry |
Pleistocene sands and gravels, mostly Bunter-derived (Special Sheet 60 - Telford.) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 647 042 |
Site Details |
Jigger's Bank |
Upper Carboniferous: Lower Coal Measures. Special Sheet 60 - Telford. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 665 058 |
Site Details |
Lincoln Hill |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Limestone Reef Facies. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 669 038 (the SSSI) |
Site Details |
Doseley Quarry |
Lower Carboniferous: Dinantian: Little Wenlock Basalt. Special Sheet 60 - Telford. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 675 068 |
Site Details |
Dean Brook |
Quaternary - Geomorphological site |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SJ 676 005 to SO 705 989 |
Site Details |
New Hadley Brickpit |
Carboniferous: Upper Coal Measures: Hadley Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 683 117 |
Site Details |
Corbett's Dingle |
Upper Carboniferous: Upper Coal Measures: Coalport Formation. Special Sheet 60 - Telford. |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 690 023 |
Site Details |
Wenlock Edge Ippikin's View |
View looks from Silurian Wenlock Series (limestone and shales), across Llandovery Series (Hughley Shales and Kenley Grit) to the Ordovician and beyond to the Precambrian Longmyndian and Uriconian. |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SO 568 965 |
Site Details |
The Hermitage, Bridgnorth |
Permian (Bridgnorth Sandstone) and Lower Triassic (Kidderminster Conglomerate). Dudley and Bridgnorth 1967. New names from Telford Sheet. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 728 934 |
Site Details |
Hermitage Hill |
Permian (Bridgnorth Sandstone) and Lower Triassic (Kidderminster Conglomerate). Bridgnorth and Dudley map 167. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 728 935 |
Site Details |
Haughmond Hill (W) |
Precambrian: Wentnor Group: Bayston-Oakswood Formation: Darnford Conglomerate. Sheet 152. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 539 143 (fence of quarry moved, exact position difficult) |
Site Details |
Ebury Hill |
Precambrian: Wentnor Group: Bayston-Oakswood Formation: Darnford Conglomerate. Sheet 152. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 545 165 |
Site Details |
Dolgoch Quarry |
Lower Carboniferous Limestone; Sheet 137. |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 277 245 |
Site Details |
Haughmond Hill, Douglas's Leap |
Precambrian: Stretton Group: Burway Formation. Sheet 152 |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 537 136 |
Site Details |
Queen Eleanor's Bower |
Precambrian: Wentnor Series: Bayston and Oakwood Formation: Haughmond Conglomerate. Sheet 152. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 537 137 |
Site Details |
Haughmond Hill Fort |
Precambrian: Stretton Group: Burway Formation. Sheet 152. |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SJ 537 138 |
Site Details |
Haughmond Hill (S) |
Precambrian: Stretton Group: Burway Formation. Sheet 152. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 539 133 |
Site Details |
Charlton Hill Farm |
Lower Cambrian: Wrekin Quartzite. Sheet 152 |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 588 074 |
Site Details |
Charlton Hill Summit |
Precambrian: Felsite Dyke crossing conglomerate band. Sheet 152 |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 588 076 |
Site Details |
Gleedon Hill |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Limestone |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 625 013 |
Site Details |
Shadwell Quarry |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Limestone. Special Sheet 60 - Telford. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 626 009 |
Site Details |
Farley Quarry, Gleedon |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Limestone and Reef. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 628 016 |
Site Details |
Farley Quarry, Middle |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Limestone and Reef. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 629 017 |
Site Details |
Farley Quarry, Far End Right |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Limestone and Reef. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 629 018 |
Site Details |
Farley Quarry, Offices |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Limestone and Reef. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 631 015 |
Site Details |
Lydebrook Dingle (S) |
Lower Carboniferous: Lydebrook Sandstone. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 6615 0580 |
Site Details |
Benthall Edge Cottage |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Benthall Beds. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 6615 0335 |
Site Details |
Lydebrook Dingle |
Lower Carboniferous: Lydebrook Sandstone. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 662 057 |
Site Details |
Lydebrook Dingle (S) |
Silurian: Wenlock Shale: Coalbrookdale Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 663 058 |
Site Details |
Loamhole Dingle |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Shale: Coalbrookdale Formation. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 6635 0575 |
Site Details |
Pattins Quarry, Benthall Edge |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Benthall Beds. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 664 034 |
Site Details |
Loamhole Dingle |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Shale: Coalbrookdale Formation. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 6645 0555 |
Site Details |
Lincoln Hill |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Benthall Beds. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 670 039 |
Site Details |
Lincoln Hill |
Upper Carboniferous: Lower Coal Measure Sandstone overlying Silurian: Wenlock Series: Benthall Beds. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 6725 0405 |
Site Details |
Lilleshall Hill |
Precambrian: Uriconian Volcanics; rhyolites and tuffs. Sheet 153, Wolverhampton. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 729 156 |
Site Details |
Lilleshall Hill |
Precambrian: Uriconian Volcanics. Special Sheet 60 - Telford |
Structure |
SJ 729 158 |
Site Details |
Lilleshall (N) |
Lower Carboniferous: Dinantian: Visean: Carboniferous Limestone. Sheet 153, Wolverhampton. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 734 165 |
Site Details |
Wenlock Edge Knowle Quarry |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Limestone Formation. Sheet 152 or SO59. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 585 977 |
Site Details |
Hazler Quarry |
Precambrian (Uriconian Volcanics); Ordovician (Caradoc Series: Harnage Shales) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 463 924 |
Site Details |
Chelmick, below Little Coppice |
Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Cheney Longville Flags; sandstones and siltstones. Sheet SO49. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 467 908 |
Site Details |
Yell Bank, Chatwall |
Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Chatwall Flags and Sandstone. Sheet SO59 |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 513 973 |
Site Details |
Chatwall Home Farm |
Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Chatwall Sandstone and alternata Limestone. Sheet SO59. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 514 974 |
Site Details |
Church Preen Quarry |
Silurian: Llandovery Series: Kenley Grit |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 5420 9775 |
Site Details |
Wilderhope Youth Hostel Entrance |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Limestone. Sheet 166 |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 552 944 |
Site Details |
Easthope (NE) |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Formation (reef ). Sheet SO59. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 5620 9555 |
Site Details |
Shipton |
Silurian: Downton Series: with 'Ludlow Bone Bed' at base, overlying Ludlow Series: Whitcliffe Beds. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 563 917 |
Site Details |
Wenlock Edge, Ippikin's Rock |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Formation; reef facies. Sheet SO59. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 569 965 |
Site Details |
Upper Hill Farm, Wenlock Edge |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Wenlock Shales: Coalbrookdale Formation: Apedale Member. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 573 968 (SO 571 967 on GIS) |
Site Details |
Lilleshall Quarry (SW end) |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Formation: Reef facies, and Wenlock Limestone. Sheet SO 59 |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 574 966 |
Site Details |
Lilleshall Quarry (Middle) |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Formation; Reef facies, and Wenlock Limestone. Sheet SO59 |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 577 968 |
Site Details |
Lilleshall Quarry entrance |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Formation: Reef facies, and Wenlock Limestone. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 579 971 |
Site Details |
Wenlock Edge, Cliff and Roof of Presthope Tunnel |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Formation, and Coalbrookdale Formation: Wenlock Limestone and Shales. Sheet SO59. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 581 974 |
Site Details |
Wenlock Edge, Presthope cliff section |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Much Wenlock Formation. Sheet 152 or SO59. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 5817 9743 |
Site Details |
Castle Hill Gardens |
Permian: Bridgnorth Sandstone. Sheet 167 (Dudley) - old map; different nomeclature. New names from Toghill 1990. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 717 928 |
Site Details |
High Rock |
Lower Triassic: Kidderminster Conglomerate, lying on top of Permian: Bridgnorth Sandstone. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 724 939 |
Site Details |
Rindleford Quarry |
Lower Triassic: Kidderminster Conglomerate. Mostly the sandy facies |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 728 956 |
Site Details |
Worfe Bridge |
Triassic (Kidderminster Conglomerate) over Permian (Bridgnorth Sandstone); Toghill 1990. Map out of date regarding nomenclature. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 733 958 (SO 732 958 on GIS) |
Site Details |
Quatford Church |
Permian: Bridgnorth Sandstone, Toghill 1990 |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 738 902 |
Site Details |
Quatford, 'Little Chef' |
Permian: Bridgnorth Sandstone. Toghill 1990. Nomenclature out of date on Sheet 167. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 739 902 |
Site Details |
Haughmond Hill (S) |
N/A |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SJ 542 133 |
Site Details |
Haughmond Hill Trig. Point |
Precambrian basaltic intrusion |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 543 134 |
Site Details |
Haughmond Hill (N) |
Precambrian: Wentnor Group: Bayston-Oakswood Formation: Darnford Conglomerate. Sheet 152. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 543 149 |
Site Details |
Leighton |
Quaternary: landscape affected by fluvio-glacial action |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SJ 619 049 |
Site Details |
Comley Quarry |
Cambrian: Lower Comley: Lower Comley Sandstones and Limestones. Sheet 166. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 484 965 |
Site Details |
Soudley Quarry |
Upper Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Horderley (Soudley) Sandstone Formation: Alternata Limestone Formation: Cheney Longville Formation. Sheet SO 49. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 477 918 |
Site Details |
Robin's Tump |
Cambrian: Lower and Upper Comley Series. Sheet 166 |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 484 955 |
Site Details |
Wilderness |
Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Chatwall Sandstone. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 490 956 |
Site Details |
Eaton Track |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Coalbrookdale Formation: Apedale and Farley Member: Homerian Stage. Stratotype for base of Upper Gleedon chronozone of the Homerian |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 500 900 |
Site Details |
Hillend |
Cambrian: Wrekin Quartzite resting on Uriconian Quartz Porphyry. Sheet 166. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 505 942 |
Site Details |
Longville to Stanway road |
Silurian: Wenlock Series: Farley Member: Coalbrookdale Formation |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 539 927 |
Site Details |
Race Course Quarry, Oswestry |
Carboniferous: Namurian: Cefn-y-fedw Sandstone (Millstone Grit) |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 256 298 |
Site Details |
Pen-y-foel Lane, Llanymynech |
Ordovician: Caradocian |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 265 213 |
Site Details |
Overly Hill |
Precambrian: Uriconian; rhyolites |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 610 102 |
Site Details |
Ackland's Coppice |
Silurian: Tickwood Beds and Wenlock Limestone. Dip 5° SSW. Apparently conformable transition between stages |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 638 027 |
Site Details |
Ercall Hill |
Precambrian: Uriconian Volcanics. Cambrian: Wrekin Quartzite: Comley Beds |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 643 096 |
Site Details |
Bicton (NNE) |
Silurian: Clun Forest Formation (ref.1) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 292 833 |
Site Details |
Holloway Rocks |
Silurian: Rhychonella and Chonetes Beds of Stamp (ref.1). Silurian: Whitcliffe Beds or Cefn Einon Formation of current nomenclature |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 310 740 |
Site Details |
Hoar Wood, Bury Ditches, Clun |
Silurian: Cefn Einon Formation and Clun Forest Formation (ref.1); Silurian: Upper Whitcliffe and Downtonian; Silurian: Upper Ludlovian and Pridoli |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 318 837 |
Site Details |
More Quarry (older) |
Ordovician: Hope/Stapeley Beds of Llanvirn Series, intruded by dolerite (?gabbro) |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 323 933 |
Site Details |
Upper Gravenor |
Dolerite intrusion within Precambrian: Wentnor Series |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 375 942 |
Site Details |
Ashes Hollow, Little Stretton |
Precambrian: Longmyndian Group: Stretton Series, Stretton Shales, Burway, Synalds and Portway Groups |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 421 946 |
Site Details |
A49 Craven Arms to Onibury |
Silurian: Lower Ludlow Shales to Upper Ludlow Shales |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 444 804 |
Site Details |
Chuney Pool |
Ordovician: Acton Scott Group below Limestone. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 446 899 |
Site Details |
Batch Valley, All Stretton |
Precambrian: Longmyndian: Synalds Group (Batch Volcanics). TYPE LOCALITY: For the Batch Volcanics with the Synalds Group |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 446 961 |
Site Details |
Ragleth Wood (SW) (Briarley) |
Precambrian: Longmyndian: Basal Helmeth Grit of Stretton Shale Series |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 448 918 |
Site Details |
Buxton Quarry, All Stretton |
Precambrian: Stretton Series: Stretton Shale Group; Buxton Rock; Burway Group. TYPE LOCALITY: Buxton Rock |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 459 955 |
Site Details |
Bache |
Silurian: Upper Ludlow Shales |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 468 821 |
Site Details |
Hope Bowdler |
Ordovician: Harnage Shales. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 474 924 |
Site Details |
Willstone Road Quarry |
Cambrian conformable junction between dipping Lower Comley Sandstone and Wrekin Quartzite |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 475 947 |
Site Details |
Caer Caradoc Ridge |
Precambrian: Uriconian: Ragleth Tuffs; intruded by a dolerite sill. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 475 951 |
Site Details |
Caer Caradic Summit |
Precambrian: Uriconian: Caer Caradoc Rhyolite and an Andesitic lava. TYPE LOCALITY: Caer Caradoc Rhyolite; Caer Caradoc Andesite. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 477 953 |
Site Details |
Robin's Tump |
Cambrian: Lower and Upper Comley Sandstones and Grits |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 483 955 |
Site Details |
Sun Inn (car park) |
Silurian: Upper Ludlow Shales |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 495 851 |
Site Details |
Bache Mill Lane |
Silurian: Upper Ludlow Shales and Downton Castle Sandstone |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 503 858 |
Site Details |
The Patch, Titterhill |
Devonian: Psammosteus Limestone with beds above and below |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 511 804 |
Site Details |
Hopecross (NNW) |
Silurian: Aymestry Group and Upper Ludlow Shales. |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 546 906 |
Site Details |
Cockshutford Stream |
Devonian: Clee Group of sandstones. TYPE LOCALITY: Upper Devonian Clee Group |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 586 851 |
Site Details |
Clee Burf |
As mapped, Dolerite is always above Coal Measures. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 593 843 |
Site Details |
Stone Clee (Dhu Stone) - Radar Quarry (formerly East Quarry) |
There is no BGS 1:50,000 Memoir covering this area. Assumed Dolerite of uncertain age intruded into Carboniferous Coal Measures |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 596 778 |
Site Details |
Quatford Church |
Triassic: Lower Mottled Sandstone (ref.2); or Permian: Bridgnorth Sandstone (ref.1) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 738 907 |
Site Details |
Claverley Road Cutting |
Lower Triassic: Wildmoor Sandstone Formation (`Upper Mottled Sandstone'). |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 794 940 |
Site Details |
Wilcott Lane |
Triassic: Mercia Mudstone Group: Tarporley Siltstone. Sheet 137. (old classification). |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 3890 1864 |
Site Details |
Ruyton Cliffe (reservoir) |
Triassic: mostly Keuper Series: Ruyton and Grinshill Sandstones; possibly Upper Mottled Sandstone below. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 3921 2065 |
Site Details |
Ruyton Cliffe (S) |
Triassic: Keuper Series: Ruyton Sandstone. Sheet 138, Wem |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 3932 2051 |
Site Details |
Ruyton, Blackberry Hill |
Triassic: Keuper Series: Ruyton Sandstone. Sheet 138. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 3940 2415 |
Site Details |
Webscott T-junction |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Wildmoor Sandstone overlain by Grinshill Sandstone. Wem Sheet 138. New nomenclature from Toghill: 'Geology in Shropshire.' |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 4755 2290 |
Site Details |
Webscott, Woodlands |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Wildmoor Sandstone (Upper Mottled) overlain by Helsby Sandstone (Grinshill Sandstone). |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 4765 2339 |
Site Details |
Clive (church) |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Grinshill Sandstone. Sheet 138 Wem. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 5148 2415 |
Site Details |
Grinshill Quarries |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Group (Grinshill Sandstone Member) and Mercia Mudstone (Tarporley Siltstone Formation and Bollin Mudstone Formation). New nomenclature from Thompson: 'Guide to History and Geology of Quarrying......in Corbet Wood, Grinshill' |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 5238 2385 and SJ 5235 2385 |
Site Details |
Grinshill Working Quarry |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation (Grinshill Sandstone Member) and Mercia Mudstone Formation (Tarporley Siltstone Formation and Bollin Mudstone Formation). New nomenclature from David Thompson: 'Guide to History and Geology of Quarrying' 1995. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 5262 2380 |
Site Details |
Nesscliffe Hill |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Wilmslow Sandstone, and Helsby Sandstone (Ruyton Sandstone). Sheet 138 (with old classification) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 3850 1922 |
Site Details |
Pim Hill |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation (Bunter): Wildmoor Sandstone (Upper Mottled) and Helsby Sandstone (Keuper) Grinshill Sandstone. Sheet 138 Wem, and Toghill 'Geology in Shropshire' |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 4875 2140 |
Site Details |
Telford Town Park, Randlay Pool (SW) |
Upper Carboniferous: Upper Coal Measures: Coalport Formation. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 6995 0770 |
Site Details |
Telford Town Park, Blue Pool (SE) |
Upper Carboniferous: Upper Coal Measures: Coalport Formation. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 7035 0765 and 7025 0760 |
Site Details |
Caer Caradoc |
Precambrian: Uriconian Volcanics, rock unit names specific to Caer Caradoc |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 484 966 to SO 470 943 |
Site Details |
Woodgate Batch |
Precambrian: Uriconian: Woodgate Batch Andesites and Dacites |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 4875 9382 to SO 4905 9320 |
Site Details |
Plowden Woods (scarp) |
Silurian: Wenlock Shales; eqivalent to the Silurian: Aston Mudstone |
Fossils and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 3863 8658 |
Site Details |
Hagley Upper Ridge |
Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Hagley Volcanic Formation |
Geomorphology/Landscape |
SO 2782 9763 to SO 2794 9814 |
Site Details |
Hope Bowdler Hill |
Precambrian: Uriconian Volcanics |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 471 932 to SO 490 945 |
Site Details |
Rudges, Little Stretton |
Precambrian: Longmyndian: Stretton Shales. Silurian: Llandovery: basal Pentamerus Beds |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 4418 9238 to SO 4425 9170 (?) |
Site Details |
Stapeley Hill (SE) |
Ordovician: Llanvirn Series: Hope Group; Stapeley Volcanic Formation (BGS, 1991); Shelve Formation; Stapeley Volcanic Member (Whittard & Dean 1979) |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 3102 9816 to SO 3135 9917 |
Site Details |
Ragleth Hill |
Precambrian: Uriconian: Ragleth Tuffs |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 446 916 to SO 458 927 |
Site Details |
Ragleth Wood |
Precambrian: Longmydian: Stretton Shale Series: Helmeth Grit Member |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SO 446 916 to SO 458 927 |
Site Details |
Cwm Dingle (ridge), Priestweston |
Ordovician: Llanvirn Series: Weston Flags Formation: Upper Sandstone Member. Upper Grit horizon within Weston Member of Middleton Formation (Whittard & Dean, 1979) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 2950 9785 to SO 2966 9805 |
Site Details |
Grindle Forge |
Permo-Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Kidderminster Conglomerate and Bridgnorth Sandstone (Toghill). Sheet 153 has old nomenclature. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 754 034 |
Site Details |
Old Rectory |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Helsby Sandstone (new nomenclature, Toghill). Old nomenclature on Sheet 153. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 765 015 |
Site Details |
Brimstree Hill |
Permo-Trias: Bridgnorth Sandstone and Kidderminster Conglomerate (Toghill); from Sheet 153 which uses old nomenclature. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 7515 0575 |
Site Details |
Lee Brockhurst, Rock Cutting |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Wildmoor Sandstone (Toghill). Sheet 138 has old nomenclature. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 549 268 |
Site Details |
Lee Brockhurst, River Bridge |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Chester Pebble Beds (Toghill). Sheet 138 with old nomenclature. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 548 267 |
Site Details |
Wixhill, Wixhill Lane |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Wildmoor Sandstone (f3). Sheet 138 uses old nomenclature. |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 560 286 |
Site Details |
Marchamley |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Helsby Sandstone, and Mercia Mudstone Formation: Tarporley Siltstones. Sheet 138. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 594 289 |
Site Details |
Bilmarsh Lane |
Triassic: Mercia Mudstone Formation: Mercia Mudstone (Keuper Marl). Sheet 138. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 496 242 to SJ 496 247 |
Site Details |
Old quarries, Loton Park |
Lower Permian: Alberbury Breccia ( see P. Toghill). Formerly classified as Upper Carboniferous. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 360 139 |
Site Details |
Wixhill Farm |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone Formation: Wildmoor Sandstone (f3) (Toghill). Sheet 138 uses old nomenclature |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 561 287 |
Site Details |
The Pike, Cardingmill |
Precambrian: Longmyndian: Stretton Series: Synalds Group |
Structure and Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 4415 9492 to SO 4434 9518 |
Site Details |
Cheswardine Road Bridge (Cheswardine canal cutting) |
Triassic: Bunter Pebble Beds (Chester Pebble Beds) and Upper Carboniferous: Keele Beds |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 699 303 to 697 307 |
Site Details |
Tyrley Locks |
Permo-Trias: Lower Mottled (Bridgnorth) Sandstone and Bunter (Chester) Pebble Beds. Sheet 139. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 689 327 |
Site Details |
Edgmond |
Permo-Trias: Chester Pebble Beds. Sheet 139. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 714 194 |
Site Details |
Badger Dingle |
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone: Helsby Sandstone (Toghill) |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SO 767 994 |
Site Details |
Lyth Hill |
Precambrian: Longmyndian: Wentnor Group: Bayston-Oakswood Formation. Sheet 152. |
Sedimentology/Stratigraphy |
SJ 472 068 and SJ 473 067 |
Site Details |
Bulthy car-park |
Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Breidden Volcanic Group: Bulthy Formation: Bomb Rock. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 315 139 |
Site Details |
Bulthy mine |
Ordovician: Caradoc Series: Breidden Volcanics: Bulthy Formation. No geological map; refer to Toghill |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 309 133 |
Site Details |
Earl's Hill |
Precambrian: Uriconian Volcanics. Sheet 152. |
Mineralogy/Petrology |
SJ 409 048 |
Site Details |
Lyth Hill |
Precambrian: Longmyndian: Wentnor Series. |
Structure |
Extends from SJ 467 066 to 469 066 |
Site Details |
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