Samples Of Rock Strata In Warwickshire

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SLHS: Geography: Warwickshire

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Warwickshire lies in the very centre of England and is within easy reach of at least four Areas Of Outstanding Natural beauty.

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Topography

  1. The source of the topography maps is interactive and may be accessed here: topographic-map.com


Geology

  1. Warwickshire’s geology:

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Archaeology

  1. The 1841 Wilmcote Quarry Plesiosaur is at Warwick Museum. See here: Natural-History-Conservation.com

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  3. Archaeology

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  22. Streets

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  24. Tollhouses

  25. Tourism

  26. Tunnels

  27. War & Combat

  28. Welcombe

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Last update: 31/10/2024

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Stratford’s Geography >>

- The Bigger Picture

Natural Features

The River Avon flows through Warwickshire from top right to bottom left. Whilst there are no known mineral deposits, save low grade iron ore much further to the south, the nutrient rich alluvial soils have yielded storehouses of grain and farm produce further downstream, in the Evesham area, for millennia.

(Again on a desktop computer you may hover over to zoom in).

(On a desktop computer you may hover over to zoom in).

England and Wales have the most diverse geology of anywhere in the world and Warwickshire certainly has been influenced significantly by it.

If you cannot see the zoomed in version of just Warwickshire it is taken from Jonathan Radley’s research paper which you may download (see Further Information below)

On a desktop computer you may hover over to zoom in to see the strata underneath Warwickshire.

English & Welsh Geology

The map below shows the many types of rock that lie underneath the ground.

On a desktop computer you may hover over to zoom in to see the names of towns.

English & Welsh Coal

The map below shows the locations of coal that lies underneath the beautiful landscapes. The Birmingham Coalfield (outlined in red when hovered over) was particularly important in successfully making Stratford an industrially wealthy town -see William James.

  1. GeologicalEvolutionOfWarwickshire_©JonathanRadley_BirminghamUni2009.pdf

  2. Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group Links Page

Quarries

OrdovicianIgneous Rocks, Griff Quarry No4, Bedworth

Blue Lias Shales of the Early Jurassic Period, Long Itchington Cement Workings (before it was flooded) 2008

An ancient route of the River Avon has exposed sandstone layers

Guys Cliff half way between Warwick and Leamington

Water Worn Exposed Strata

Sandstone layers,  Baxterley Quarry, between Atherstone and Baddesley Ensor

Stratford’s Geography >>

as there are no mountains and few steep sided hills in a county of ‘rolling’ countryside not much of Warwickshire’s bedrock is visible except where man has quarries down and as you have just read there were not many reasons to do that.

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