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Saudgate Beds at the junctiou of the Bridge and Eidgeway 

 Eoads, opposite the Lodge at Eastcote — ^is observable at 

 Tilburstow Hill. A search for a good standpoint on the 

 height, where there would be no timber to obstruct the view, 

 resulted in the members collecting on a plateau above the 

 sand-pit ; a wide sweep of most beautiful landscape-scenery 

 was commanded on every side, embracing all the various 

 geological formations of the Cretaceous and Wealden systems. 

 The northern background consisted of the lofty heights of the 

 chalk escarpment, abutting against which was seen the gentle 

 terrace of the Upper Greensand; lower down the valley came 

 the oak-dotted plain of the Gault, and nearer still the broad 

 level of the Folkestone series of the Lower Greensand, on 

 which the picturesque village of Godstone is a conspicuous fea- 

 ture ; then in a slight depression at the foot of Tilburstow Hill 

 there might be seen the narrow outcrop of the Saudgate Beds, 

 the rising ground nearly to the point of observation being 

 occupied by the Hythe Beds, an outlier of the Sandgate Beds, 

 forming the crest on which the members stood. Then turn- 

 ing southwards at the foot of the escarpment of the Hythe 

 Beds could be seen the low, flat, profusely-wooded plain of 

 Weald Clay stretching away into the distance, beyond which 

 were noticed the rising grounds and heights of the forest 

 ridge, the nearer and lower of which are the Balcombe and 

 Moner's Hill elevation of the Tunbridge WeUs Sand ; the 

 loftier heights beyond being those of Ashdown Forest and 

 Crowborough Beacon of the Ashdown Sand formation, and 

 in the dim distance rose the chalk escarpment of the South 

 Downs. From the summit of Tilburstow Hill, therefore, the 

 members had in view the whole series of formations of the 

 Wealden valley of upheaval from its northern boundary, the 

 chalk escarpment, to its centre, the forest ridge anticlinal, 

 and also the complement to the view in the distant rise of 

 the southernmost boundary of those formations on the further 

 side of the forest ridge. With a lingering look at the 

 deUghtful prospect the members descended northwards, 

 observing on their way down an exposure of the Hythe Beds 

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