8 LEDBURY DISTRICT. 



rocks wliich constitute a passage between the Old Red and tlic upper 

 Silurians, in fact is near the line where the Silurian beds are upheaved 

 through the rocks which once overlaid them. Dormington quarries 

 can only be reached by surmounting the hill and passing over the 

 uplifted ridge of Aymestry rock, by Backbury, or the landslip. 

 They are of Wcnlock limestone, the valley intervening between 

 them, and Haughwood, being a valley of denuded Wenlock shale. 

 The mansion of Stoke Edith Park, the residence of Lady Emily 

 Foley, stands very close on the line of upcast of the Silurian rocks, 

 as also does Tarrington village, and the Eoley Arms Inn. The upper 

 Silurians rising through Old Red rocks, may be seen at many localities 

 on the south of the village of Fownhope. Capler Wood and Nash 

 Tump on the west, Putley, and Little Marcle on the east of Woolhope 

 dome, are on the Old Red. 



At ]\Iucli Marcle the junction of the Old Red and upper Ludlow 

 deposits may again be observed. I accompanied the late Mr. Strick- 

 land, some years ago, to look for the Ludlow bone bed, which we 

 found at a locality north of the Ross and Ledbury high road, between 

 Lyne Down and Gamage Ford, where our friend and companion, the 

 Rev. Henry Stone, discovered for the first time the seed vessels of the 

 earliest known land plant — the seed vessels of a small Lycopodium. 

 At Gorstley there is a section, near the large pool, shewing the 

 junction of the upper Ludlow beds with the Downton sandstone. 

 The fossils here are interesting. The interior of some of the fossil 

 shells contains spicules of sulphuret of nickel, which the quarrymen 

 of course call '"gold." The Lea, at tlie southern extremity of this 

 district, is situated on the Lower Old Red, and near the junction of 

 the upper Silurian upcast of May Hill. It is chiefly remarkable for 

 its well-restored village church, and a parsonage house of better taste 

 than common. 



NO. 4. THE LEDBURY DISTRICT. 



This consists of the basin of the little river Leadou, a tract 

 extending from the hills of the "Woolhope District to the hills which 

 rise immediately to the east of Ledbury. To this is added the tract 

 intervening between these hills and the Malvern range, which 

 constitute the natural boundary of Herefordshire on the east. Of 



