Designated Local Geological Sites (LGS) in Herefordshire
There are 140 designated Local Geological Sites in Herefordshire, covering a wide range of the rock types and landscape features to be found in the county.
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| Site Name | Geology/Geomorphology |
| Aymestrey Main Quarry | Silurian, Aymestry Limestone, Ludlow Series |
| Backney Bridge | Devonian, Brownstones Formation |
| Ballingham Railway Section | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Quaternary Flowstone |
| Bartestree Quarry (Lowes Hill) | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Permian-aged Intrusion |
| Barton Farm, Kington | Quaternary, Pleistocene, Late Devensian, Hereford Formation, Glacial Moraine |
| Bearswood Common, Kington | Quaternary, Pleistocene, Mathon Formation |
| Beech Cottage Quarry | Carboniferous Avon Group (Lower Limestone Shales) |
| Blackwardine | Pleistocene, Risbury Formation, Stoke Prior Member: Fluvioglacial terrace deposits |
| Bodenham Farm Site 1 | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Siltstones |
| Bodenham Farm Site 2 | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Bodenham Farm Site 3 | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Bodenham Tufa Falls | Quaternary |
| Bredwardine (Old Court) | Quaternary, Late Devensian, Staunton on Wye Member of Herefordshire Formation |
| Breinton Gorge | Silurian Moor Cliffs Formation (Raglan Mudstone Formation) Quaternary fluvioglacial deposits |
| Bridge Sollers | Quaternary, Late Devensian |
| Brobury Scar | Silurian, Raglan Mudstone Formation |
| Brockhill Farm Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series, Downton Castle Sandstone Formation |
| Brockhill Stream Section | Silurian, Ludlow Series, Wenlock Series |
| Bromyard Industrial Estate | Devonian, St Maughans Formation |
| Bronsil Road Cutting | Ordovician igneous intrusion |
| Byton Meanders | Channel Processes & Migration |
| Cholstrey | Quaternary, Pleistocene, Anglian, Risbury Formation, Devensian, Herefordshire Formation, Meltwater channel |
| Clutters Cave | Precambrian, Warren House Series |
| Coldstone Common | Quaternary Peat deposits |
| Coneygree Wood Quarry 1 | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
| Cowleigh Bridge A | Silurian, Llandovery Series, May Hill Sandstone Group, Cowleigh Park Formation |
| Cowleigh Bridge B | Precambrian, Malverns Complex, Silurian, Llandovery, May Hill Sandstone Group |
| Credenhill Park Wood Adit and Quarry | Silurian Bishop’s Frome Limestone Member, Devonian Freshwater West Formation (St Maughans Formation |
| Deans Place Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Deer Park Road Section | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Dormington Slip | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Dormington Wood Quarry | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation |
| Dudales Hope Valley | Devonian, St Maughans Formation |
| E.Green’s Quarry | Silurian, Priodoli Series |
| Eaton Camp River Terrace | Quaternary, Pleistocene, Palaeoenvironment, River Terrace No. 2 |
| Eaton Hill | Silurian, Raglan Mudstone Formation, Quaternary, herefordshire Formation, Risby Formation, Dry Valley |
| Fishpool Valley | Silurian, Aymestry Limestone Formation; Quaternary, Misfit Valley |
| Flintsham Kettle | Quarternary, Late Devensian, Herefordshire Formation, Kettle Hole, hummock terrain |
| Fowlet Farm Quarry | Cambrian/Ordovician intrusions |
| Franklands Gate Pit | Quaternary, Anglian Risbury Formation |
| Gardiners Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex |
| Garren Valley | Geomorpholgy, Devonian Brownstones |
| Garway Hill Common Thurfurs | Quaternary, Pleistocene, Periglacial Conditions. Devonian Brownstones Formation |
| Glewstone Boat | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Brownstones |
| Glewstone Cutting | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Brownstones |
| Goggin Road Section | Silurian Ludlow Series |
| Goodrich Castle | Devonian, Lower Old red Sandstone |
| Great Doward Iron Mine | Carboniferous Gully Oolite (Crease Limestone) |
| Gullet Main Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex |
| Gullet Pass Pit | Cambrian, Comley Series |
| Gullet Top Quarry | Silurian, Llandovery Series, Precambrian Malvern Complex |
| Halesend Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Haysebrook Cottages | Quaternary, Whitehouse member of Risbury Formation, Cradley and Colwall Members of Cradley Valley Formation |
| Hergest Court | Quaternary, Pleistocene, Late Devensian, Hereford Formation, Meltwater channels |
| Highfield Quarry | Devonian, St Maughans Formation |
| Hoarwithy Lane | Devonian, Brownstones Formation |
| Holme Lacy Railway Cutting | Quaternary, Wye Valley Formation, Holme Lacy Member |
| Hoopers Oak Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Howle Hill Quarries | Carboniferous, Carboniferous Lower Limestone Shales |
| Huntsham Bridge | Quaternary |
| Huntsham Hill Landslips | Lower Devonian Brownstones Formation Upper Devonian Quartz Conglomerate and Tintern Sandstone |
| Huntsham Hill Road Cutting | Devonian, Upper Old Red Sandstone, Quartz Conglomerate |
| Huntsham Hill South | Carboniferous Avon Group (Lower Limestone Shales) |
| Kenchester Kettle Moraine | Quaternary, Pleistocene, Glacial History, Palaeoenvironment |
| King Arthur’s Cave & Quarry | Quaternary; Carboniferous, Llanelli Formation & Gully Oolite Formation |
| Kingsfield | Quaternary, Lugg Valley Formation |
| Kinsham Gorge | Proglacial Overspill Channel |
| Knapp Lane Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series, Aymestry Limestone |
| Ledbury Tunnel Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series, Downton Castle Formation |
| Limekiln Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Linton Quarry | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Siltstones & Downton Castle Formation |
| Linton Tile Works | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, St Maughans Formation |
| Linton Wood Quarry | Silurian, Wenlock Series, Ludlow Series, Pridoli Series |
| Little Doward Hillside 3 | Carboniferous, Lower Dolomite and Crease Limestone |
| Little Doward Limestone Pavement | Quaternary, Carboniferous, Crease Limestone Formation |
| Locksters Pool, River Wye | Channel Processes and Migration |
| Lords Wood Quarry | Carboniferous, Carboniferous Limestone Series |
| Lord’s Wood Trackside | Carboniferous Cromhall Sandstone Formation |
| Lower Dolomite Cliff, Little Doward | Carboniferous, Lower Limestone Shales: Black Rock Limestone and contact with Avon Group |
| Lyne Down Quarry | Silurian, Upper Ludlow Siltstones: Upper Bringewood Beds |
| Loxter Ashbed Quarry | Silurian, Aymestry Limestone Formation with bentonite layers |
| M50 Section 1 and D | Devonian, Lower old Red Sandstone, Brownstones |
| M50 Section 2 | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, St Maughans Formation, Brownstones |
| M50 Section A | Silurian/Devonian, Downton Castle Fm./Lower Old Red Sandstone |
| Madawg Rock Shelter | Carboniferous Gully Oolite (Crease Limestone) |
| Marlbrook Quarry and Limekiln | Silurian, Raglan Mudstone Formation, Bishops Frome Limestone Member |
| Merbach Stream | Silurian, Raglan Formation, Bishops Frome Member, Townsend Tuff Bed |
| Middle Hollybush Quarry | Precambrian, Cambrian, Malvern Quarzite |
| Mortimers Cross, River Lugg | Quaternary, Devensian Moraine |
| Mortimers Cross Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| News Wood | Silurian, Much Wenlock Formation |
| Old Sufton | Silurian, Downton Group |
| Overross Road Cutting | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Brownstones |
| Park Wood Tufa | Carboniferous Avon Group (Lower Limestone Shales) |
| Pitch Coppice Quarry | Silurian, Wenlock Limestone Formation and Lower Ludlow Siltstones Formation |
| Priors Frome Laneside | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Purlieu Brockhill Coppice | Silurian, Ludlow Series, Quaternary, Tufa |
| Quartz Conglomerate Cliff, Little Doward | Devonian, Quartz Conglomerate Formation |
| Redbank Cliff | Silurian, Raglan Mudstone Formation, Quaternary, Pleistocene, 4th River Terrace, Landslip |
| Risbury Bridge | Quaternary, Anglian Humber/Risbury Fm, Devonian St Maughans Fm. |
| Rudge End Quarry | Silurian, Woolhope Limestone Formation/td> |
| Ryelands Croft | Quaternary, Anglian, Risbury Formation |
| Scutterdine Quarry | Silurian, Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Woolhope Limestone |
| Shobdon Drumlins | Quaternary |
| Shucknall Hill Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Slashers Quarry | Quaternary, Precambrian |
| Sleaves Oak Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Sned Wood, River Lugg | Fault Controlled Valley, result of Glacial Diversion of Drainage |
| Stansbatch | Quaternary, Late Devensian |
| Starpit Farm | Quaternary, Anglian Starpit Formation |
| Stiffords Bridge – Longley Green | Quaternary, Mathon Valley Formation |
| Stoke Prior School | Quaternary, Anglian/Late Devensian |
| Stretford Gravel Pits | Quaternary, Late Devensian |
| Sunnyhill Section | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Sutton Walls Hill Fort | Quaternary, Lugg Valley Formation |
| Swardon Quarry | Silurian, Ludlow Series. |
| Swardon Quarry below house | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| The Biblins | Carboniferous and Quaternary |
| The Brays | Quaternary, Risbury Formation, Mathon Valley Formation |
| The Leasows | Quaternary, Late Devensian, Hereford Formation |
| The Rainbow/ Hell Wood Channel | Subglacial Channel |
| The Vauld | Quaternary, Anglian Risbury Formation |
| The Windles Quarry | Carboniferous, Avon Group (Lower Limestone Shale) |
| Tidbatch 2 | Devonian, St Maughans Formation |
| Trippleton Lane | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Turner’s Boat | Quaternary, Devensian Kettle Moraine |
| Upper Lyde Pit | Quaternary, Devensian |
| Ward Hill | Silurian, Raglan Mudstone Formation, Bishop’s Frome Limestone |
| Warners Farm Pit | Quaternary, Risbury Formation, Cradley Valley Formation |
| Weir Cliff | Quaternary Devensian till |
| White Fox, Coppet Hill | Devonian, Quartz Conglomerate Formation |
| Whitmans Hill Coppice | Silurian, Much Wenlock Formation |
| Whitmans Hill Quarry | Silurian, Wenlock Series, Ludlow Series |
| Wild Goose Farm | Silurian, Much Wenlock Formation |
| Wilton Bluff | Devonian, Lower Old Red Sandstone, Brownstones |
| Woolhope Cockshoot 2 | Silurian, Ludlow Series |
| Woolhope Quarry | Silurian, Wenlock Series |
| Wyche Cutting and South Wyche Quarry | Precambrian, Malvern Complex |
| Yarkhill 1 | Silurian Upper Ludlow Siltstones, Downton Castle Sandstone |
| Yatton Court, River Lugg | Quaternary, Devensian |
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- Building Stones
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- Geopark Way
- Herefordshire
- Ice Age Ponds
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- Lithology Profiles
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- Site Examples Herefordshire
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- The Champions Project
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