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SECTIONS TO CONNECT THE LANCASHIRE 
respecting it is very scanty ; and the outcrops of the coals, if any 
occur, are distant from the present line of section. Near the 
division of the townships of Bretton and Woolley is a bed of 
coal worked by Mr. Twedale. The coal is near the surface, and 
I think it is probably a part of the Barnsley Thick Bed. The 
latter, however, has not yet been found in its full thickness farther 
north than Darton. Passing along the extensive and bold escarpment 
of Woolley Edge, the line of section goes near the outcrops of Beam- 
shaw. Winter, and Woodmoor coals, which have been worked in 
this locality by Messrs . Charlesworth, for a distance of three-quarters 
of a mile on the line of section. From the elevated summit of 
Woolley Edge, the line proceeds through the village of Woolley, 
along a gentle slope of unexplored ground ; but there is little doubt 
that the strata here dip conformably with the fall of the ground. 
The Sheffield and Wakefield turnpike road is crossed near Riding's 
Quarry, (which, I think is a western outlier of the Chevet Rock 
formation). Notton Park is next passed through, and at the inter- 
section of the line with the Staincross and Royston Road, the two 
beds of coal, supposed to be the Thick Coal of the Chevet Rock, 
and the AYoodmoor bed, have been bored to. Parts of the town- 
ships of Royston and Carlton are then traversed, where there is no 
positive information concerning the coals ; though I have little doubt 
that the Thick Coal just mentioned and the Woodmoor Coal are 
here, and at no great depth. After crossing the Barnsley canal, the 
line of section is carried through the township of Sliafton, and here 
I am unable to lay before the society further plans, except those 
derived from published maps, on a small scale ; for I am informed 
that there is no township plan of Shafton. I recommended that the 
line should proceed in the same direction, through the townships of 
Cudworth, Darfield, Billingley, and Bolton-upon-Dearne, to the Mag- 
nesian Limestone ridge ; but Mr. Thorp is of opinion that a better 
development of the strata may be had by curving the line in Woolley 
to the north-east, and passing through Notton, Royston, Shafton, 
Brierley, Great Houghton, and Clayton-in-the-Clay, to the Magnesian 
Limestone. There is however little geological interest between 
Notton and the limestone ridge, so far as regards coal beds, there 
being only two workable seams." 
