16 WEOBLEY DISTRICT. 



The whole of tliis district consists oi' Old Red sandstone, but the 

 character of the soil varies. The vallies of the Liigg and Wye arc 

 rich, especially that of the AVye, but sonic of the stilf clays, as about 

 AUensmore, require draining and much culture. 



The fo.ssils arc rare. A few broken ILsh spines from the quariics 

 near Hereford, and a tail of Cephalaspis Lyellii, in tlie posses- 

 sion of the Eev. J. H. Barker, are the only fossils I have ever 

 seen, from the Old Eed of this district. Such as they are they 

 indicate the position of the beds as appertaining to the lower series 

 of the Old Eed strata. 



NO. 8. THE WEOBLEY DISTEICT. 



A hilly tract to the !N".W. of the Hereford district. It is drained 

 in its S.W. parts by the Wye ; in its N.E. parts by Stretford Brook 

 and other lesser tributaries of the Lugg, as well as by the main 

 branch of the Lugg. 



Starting from Bridge SoUars, six miles west of Hereford, the 

 boundary ascends the left bank of the Wye, to Willersley ; thence 

 it turns KE. along the road by Kinnersley and Sarnesfield, to 

 Leominster; ^continuing from Leominster eastward to Stcen's Bridge, 

 three miles on the Bromyard road. From this point it turns south- 

 ward to Bodenham, thence it takes the course of the Lirgg, till it 

 approaches the -village of Wellington, and returns by some small 

 roads to Credenhill and Bridge Sollars. 



GEOLOGY. — This district is remarkable for the number of 

 picturesque and wooded hills which have withstood the denuding 

 powers that hollowed out the vales, and which owe their preservation 

 to the concretionary masses of Cornstone which are imbedded be- 

 tween beds of sandstone and clay, and are used for road purposes. 

 The Pyons, Dinmore, Lady-lift near Foxley, and the hills south and 

 south-east of Weobley, are among the best examples of the corn- 

 stone hills of Herefordshire, I have seen fragments of fossil fish, 

 probably Pteraspis, from Dinmore tunnel, on the Hereford and 

 Shrewsbury railway, and also from Wormsley and Brinsop, and have 

 no doubt the quarries of the neighbourhood would furnish a collec- 

 tion to a diligent geologist. I would also call attention to any gravel 



