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 APPENDIX (2). 



SUGGESTIONS FOR ROUTES. 



For the benefit of those members of the Club who may wi?h to explore 

 the district, I purpose to give here some suggestions about the best routes. 

 I may premise that the roads are rough and often very muddy, and that no 

 provisions are procurable : pedestrians therefore should start well prepared. I 

 would also recnmmend that the Ordnance map geologically coloured be a constant 

 companion ; it mxist be remembered, too, that much time is taken up in sur- 

 veying the country and hammering the rocks, and that a twelve miles' walk as 

 estimated by the map is a good day's work for the hardiest geologist. I have 

 found it a good plan when visiting many quarries in a day to carry out a box 

 of small adhesive numbers and afiBx them to the fossils when found, with 

 references in a note book ; this greatly facilitates an accurate understanding of 

 the characteristic fossils of the several beds. 



Route 1. — Train to Stoke Edith station. A walk of li miles on the 

 Ledbury rnad brings you to the corner of East Wood. Turn up a lane to the 

 right to Durley Common and Hazle. There are many good exposures of the 

 Ujiper Ludlow rocks as you ascend Seager Hill. Stay some Ume on the hill 

 to survey the whole district. The ridge on which you stand (Aymestry Rock) 

 may be seen continued roiind in both directions : the Wenlock ridge is beneath 

 you. Over the wooded dome the two small round hills to theW. S.W. are the 

 ends of the two ridges by ISIordiford. The irregular S.W. limits of the district 

 may be understood by tracing an imaginary line from these two hills to the 

 prominent bill to the S. at the end of the Aymestry ridge ; outside this line are 

 Dinedor, Acornbury, C.nplar, &c. After this survey, continue the walk to a break 

 in the hill called the Putley Cockshoot ; there is an old quarry near, which 

 may be examined. The results of the landslip, already mentioned, may be seen 

 here by a house called The Wonder. To the S. to Hooper's Oak. Descending 

 the hill homewards, you may see in the road some exposures of the Lower 

 Ludlow Shales. Pass through the AVenlock ridge by the gorge at Winslow-mill, 

 where are some old quarries, and make for Woolhope. The limestone may 

 be seen at several places in the village. Turn up to the right soon after passing 

 the church ; the roail will take you over the common and through Haugh Wood, 

 where the Upper Llandovery rocks may be seen in many places. Make for the 

 Littlehope quarries of Woolhope limestone ; some few fossils may be found here. 

 Thence to Mordiford, noticing on the right the effects of the fault in cutting 

 out altogether the Wenlock shale. Examine the breccia near the inn ; I have 

 foiind many of the rarer Brach'iopods here. From Mordiford, a walk of 4^ miles 

 will take you back to Hereford. 



Route 2. — At the second milestone on the Gloucester road cross the fields 

 to the left, and walk between Longworth and Hampton Bishop. Over the Lugg 



