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This line of fault takes a line through Paulton, Oakland’s 
Park, Hayden Green, Culvert House, Elton, and passes a little 
to the right of the turnpike gate at the juncture of the Newn- 
ham and Flaxley turnpike roads. ~ 
Little to the West of this place it branches off to the 
North-West, still bounding the Old Red, and passes about a 
quarter of a mile Kast of Flaxley Abbey. It may then be 
traced through Woodgreen, Velthouse, to a point a quarter of 
a mile East of Longhope, and in the direction of Blaisdon and 
Huntley Hill. 
This fault, with others, which branch from it, enclose a 
patch of Upper Silurian, consisting, in an ascending order, of 
May Hill Sandstone or Upper Llandovery rock, Woolhope 
Limestone, Shale, Wenlock Limestone, and Upper Ludlow 
beds. It is believed that the Old Red Sandstone is over 2,000 
feet thick in the Forest of Dean, although near Tortworth it is 
only about 300 feet thick. This facts speaks eloquently as 
to the effects of denudation, and the general direction which 
it had. 
A fine section of some of the upper beds of this series 
may be seen in the railway cutting at Soudley. Some of the 
middle beds are well exhibited in the open quarries at Bradley 
Hill, and they were further laid open in the railway tunnel 
driven under May Hill Estate. This tunnel commences on the 
Forest side, near the blast furnaces formerly belonging to the 
Great Western Iron Company, in the Soudley Valley, and 
terminates on the Eastern part of the May Hill Estate. 
At a point a little to the North of the Hawthorns the 
turnpike road leading from Drybrook to Ross has been formed 
through the Old Red Sandstone for a considerable distance, 
and nearly at a right angle with the dip of the beds, which 
incline in an Eastern direction. Here the different beds of 
Rock, Shale, Clay, and Micaceous Sand may be traced to a 
point of contact with the lower limestone beds belonging to 
the Carboniferous series. This section offers a fine treat to the 
Geologist, as the conditions are somewhat unusual. Certain it 
is that there are but few places to be found where such a long 
