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Offa's Dyke, the partially metamorpliosed Woolhope limestone of 



'Nash Scar, resting against higUy fossUiferous Llandovery sandstone ; 

 and the outlying Old Eed rocks of Upper Eadnor wood, are all 

 worthy of the investigations of the geologist. 



J^ear Staimton-on-Arrow there is an alluvial flat, probably the site 

 of a former lake silted up by the Arrow and other mountain streams. 



NO. 12. THE PEMBEIDGE DISTEICT. 



This is a level and rather narrow strip stretching in a north- 

 westward direction from the loft bank of the Wye, where it first 

 enters Herefordshii-e, to the river Lug, which forms its boundary 

 between ^Eortimer's Cross and Leominster. The hiUs of the King- 

 ton district form a natural boundary on the north and north-west, 

 as do those of the Weobley district on the south-east. The road 

 from Leominster to the Hay is taken as an approach to this natural 

 boundary on the southeast. The river "Wye has already beon 

 mentioned as the southern boundary. The western limit is, of 

 course, the county of Eadnor. From the neighbourhood of Michael- 

 church, in Ptadnorshire, a line of roads through Lyonshall, Staunton- 

 on-Arrow, and Shobdon, defines the north-western boundary, which 

 rejoins the' Lug at Mortimer's Cross. 



GEOLOGY.— This district is altogether on the Lower Old Eed, 

 as Mr. Purchas draws his lines of demarcation. The only subject 

 of interest to the geologist, that I ever met with in this neighbour- 

 hood, is the collection of Old Eed fish remains and other fossils, in 

 the possession of the Eev. J. P. Crouch, the Eector of Pembridge. 

 I believe Mr. Crouch has a few Old Eed fossils from the strata of 

 the neighbourhood, from a locality near Shobdon, where the Silurian 

 rocks rise through the Old Eed to the high grounds of Shobdoa 

 Park 



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NO. 13. THE GOLDEN VALLEY DISTEICT. 



Tliis consists principally of the Golden and Grey Vallies, with 

 the ranges of hills on either side, thus extending from the Wye at 

 Whitney and WiUersley, southward to the Worm brook, and from 

 Thruxton and Tibberton, westward, to Cusop HUl and the hills east 

 of Michaelchurch Escley. Owing to its being thinly populated and 

 little traversed, it is difficult to fix on artificial boundaries, such as 



