dg proceedings of the cotteswold club 



The Basin of the Evenlode 

 with the sub-basins of the glyme and darne 



The Evenlode is confluent to the Thames i]/^ niiles 

 north-east of Swinford Bridge and half-a-mile south-west 

 of Cassington. One of the sources of this important 

 affluent rises in the Lower Lias, close to the northern 

 side of the watershed, at Upper Lennington, the second or 

 western and probably the most important rises at 

 Moreton-in-the-Marsh ; these two branches unite to form 

 the main stream at Coldicote and Heathen Farm ; above 

 this, two or three tributaries enter the Moreton or Western 

 branch. From its source to Shipton, three miles north of 

 Burford, the Evenlode flows entirely over the broad plain 

 of the Lower Lias, it then turns to the north, and enters 

 the narrow and deep Liassic Valley of Ascot for six miles, 

 to Charlbury, excavating its course through the three 

 divisions of the Lias and the Inferior and Great Oolite, 

 beyond which it partly drains the Great Oolite of Wych- 

 wood Forest to the south, and Stonesfield and Ditchley 

 Woods to the north-east. Near Bladon the Evenlode 

 is joined by its chief tributary the Glyme from Woodstock 

 and Kiddington, and three other tributaries from Enstone. 



The Darne rises at Dunstew, and unites with the 

 Glyme near Wootton, after draining the Great Oolite and 

 Forest Marble by a western tributary from Little Tew, by 

 Sandford to Westcot Barton, where it unites with the 

 main stream, finally crossing the Cornbrash between 

 Woodstock and Bladon, and the Oxford Clay between 

 Burley Wood and Cassington ; then entering the Thames 

 half-a-mile south of Cassington, opposite Wytham Wood 

 and Hill, on the south side of the river. 



The three following groups of the Jurassic Rocks are 

 drained by the Evenlode : 



