CiRC. No. 85. 



Routes. 



The general rendezvous will be at Horbuiy Bridge Station, 

 L. & Y. R,, about 3^ miles S.E. of Dewsbury. 



For the accommodation of everyone as far as possible, an early 

 excursion will start from there at 11 a.m., and a later one at i p.m., 

 both under efficient guides ; one route being by Calder Bank, Hartley 

 Bank Colliery, and Bullcliffe Wood to Bretton Park Village, returning 

 by Stocks Moor and Midgley ; the other by Coxley Valley, Stone 

 Cliffe Wood, to Elmley Woodhouse and Bentley Springs, returning to 

 Midgley. 



Carriages will be provided for those otily who send for a ticket to 

 Mr. P. F. Lee, West Park Villas, Dewsbury, i/i each post free, at 

 Midgley to drive through Thornhill, giving an opportunity of visiting 

 the fine old church of the Thornhills and Saviles — leaving Midgley 

 4-0 p.m. 



The Hon. Sees, are indebted to Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and 

 Mr. P. p. Lee for making the arrangements and drawing up the 

 ciradar for the present meeting. 



Books and Maps. 



The district for investigation is somewhat unfortunately situated as 

 regards maps, inasmuch as it comprises a circle including the four 

 central corners of Sheets 87 N.W. and S.W., and 88 N.E. and S.E. of 

 the One-inch Ordnance Survey, but the two former contain the chief 

 area and may be obtained geologically coloured. There appear to 

 be but few published records for the Fauna and Flora of the 

 district, which is therefore a promising field for investigation. 



Physical Geography and Geology. 



Mr. J. W. Davis, F.G.S., contributes the following notes : — The 

 district around Bretton Park is on the Middle Coal Measures which 

 embrace all the coal seams and measures above the Silkstone Coal in 

 the West Riding of Yorkshire. More rapid alternations of sandstone 

 and shale replace the thick beds of sandstone which characterize the 

 Lower Coal Measures and the Millstone Grit, and give a much 

 greater variety and picturesqueness to the scenery and a richness to 

 the soil which compensate for the wild magnificence and solitude of 

 the grit-scarped moorlands. The Woolley Edge Rock ranges in a fine 

 escarpment from New Miller Dam in a southerly direction along 

 Woolley Edge, about two miles east of Bretton Park, and is continued 

 southwards in the direction of Barnsley. The sandstone is a coarse 

 thickly-bedded grit about 100 to 120 feet in thickness. Beneath the 

 Woolley Edge Rock are a number of coal seams, the AVinter, Beam- 

 shaw, Mapplewell, and Barnsley Coals are most important. At West 

 Bretton the Horbury Rock comes to the surface with the Netherton 

 Thick Coal beneath it ; whilst further west, a bed of sandstone, which 

 may be seen north and south of the lake, and in a quarry on the road 

 side in the direction of High Hoyland, is superimposed on the Flock- 

 ton Coals. At Elmley Moor and Clayton the Blocking Coal crops 



