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the workings now remain. Following the ' Permian ' boundary, 

 we find many lumps of the limestone in Bateman's Dingle, north- 

 west of Popehouse ; and again in the brook at Nash End. 



Bainham's. — Here, in a field south of the cottage, the limestone 

 was formerly extracted, for a depression of the surface is strewn with 

 fragments, and the roads adjoining exhibit many pieces in use as 

 road-stone. The limestone here occurs at the top of a low escarp- 

 ment, in which is an extensive quarry of thick-bedded red sand- 

 stone, underlying the limestone. There is a thickness of between 

 200 and 300 feet of red rocks between the limestone and the yellow 

 Coal Measure sandstones exposed in a pond north-east of Pickards. 



May House-. — The escarpment, above which the limestone occurs at 

 Bainham's, is easily traced past May House to Little London. At the 

 former the tenant showed me a number of large blocks of the lime- 

 stone, one measuring 24 x 21 x 11 inches, which had been recently 

 dragged off the field, where it evidently crops out, in a position 

 marked by the low escarpment. 



Little London. — The limestone may be traced by fragments along 

 the escarpment as far as Little London. In a field behind the 

 farmhouse it was formerly wrought in openworks and burnt on the 

 spot. Several kilns and shallow workings, all turfed over, still 

 remain, and there are numerous lumps of the limestone strewed 

 about the surface. Beyond this point the limestone seems to be cut 

 off by faults. 



So far we have traced the band continuously from beyond WitnelFs 

 End near Shatterford, towards Alveley, for about 4 miles. This 

 line of outcrop is repeated by a strike-fault, no doubt the one 

 marked on the Geological Survey map as passing near Pickards. 

 Beginning again at the southern end of the repeated outcrop, we 

 find the limestone at 



Arley Parle Ponds. — About ^ mile north-west of Arley Castle are 

 two small ponds, and in the western bank of the more southerly of 

 the two the limestone is seen in place, overlain by bright red marl. 

 The limestone seems about 13 inches thick, and consists of detached 

 cuboidal blocks having a corroded aspect and separated from each 

 other by wide open joints, as at Ardwick. 1 Three blocks measured 

 had the following dimensions : — 22 x 14 x 13 inches, 20 x 14 X 9 

 inches, and 14 x 11 X 8 inches. It occurs abundantly in the brook 

 near Bromley Farm, and between Extons and the Severn, as detached 

 lumps. In several little brooks south-west of Nether Hollies it 

 occurs very plentifully, and the outcrop must be within a very short 

 distance. Thence it may be traced at intervals along the east side 

 of the valley of the Severn, through Little London Coppice, to 



Little London Brook. — Here the limestone occurs as loose blocks 

 in the stream at the top of the wood, while below it is a series, 

 about 120 feet thick, of red marls, purple shales and flags, a foot 

 or so of yellow and blue clay with a thin coal-seam, and hard 



1 Binney, Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc. vol. vi. (1866) pp. 39, 40. 



