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House and Westend Cottage is evidence of the sandstone, 
and according to the geologic structure of the district 
it must rise at a comparatively high angle. The line 
of section (fig. 2) then traverses the southern extremity of 
a contorted anticline. The strike thence is a compressed 
semicircle, the main axis of the plication being, relative to 
the outcrops on the east and west, slightly excentral in a 
westerly direction. To the north of Drinkers’-end" the 
domical area expands, and the two outcrops are farthest 
apart to the east and west of Hardwick Court. The 
respective outcrops would seem to indicate that after one 
force had imparted a domical form to the sandstone, 
another acting from the north-east compressed it. At 
Langdon Meadows the anticlinal axis just described is 
joined by another coming from the west. Owing to the 
combination of these two axes of elevation, the respective 
outcrops of the sandstone are brought near together at 
Langdon Hill End: the anticlinal distribution of the 
deposit then apparently ceases, and the sandstone pursues 
a normal course from Severn-Stoke northwards with 
regard to its relationship to the Lias. The district 
between the two areas of elevation at Eldersfield and 
Langdon Meadows respectively, is naturally depressed, 
and the earth-movements have so acted as to produce 
an almost complete basin, in the centre of which is 
situated Berrow Hill. The arrows on the Geological 
Survey-Map indicating the dip of the sandstone around 
the Berrow outlier show clearly the inclination of the bed 
at the various localities, and it will be observed that 
the phenomenon is just the reverse of that which occurs 
to the south: at Eldersfield is a roughly ellipsoidal dome ; 
1 There are several sections of the Keuper deposits between Drinkers’-end and 
Longdon. In a road-cutting east of Nashend grey arenaceous marls are exposed resting 
upon red marls. Newbarn is an interesting locality under half-a-mile to the north of the 
last section, where the Keuper Sandstone is well exposed. The sandstone may also be 
studied near Hill Court Farm (where there is also a fair section of the subjacent Keuper 
Marls) ; and at the cross-roads about three-quarters of a mile to the north again. 
