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Asymmetrical Sherbrook Valley Sherbrook Asymmetrical

facing slope. slope. facing Quarry.

Follow the north side of the to the view point. view the to Ring Castle the of side north the Follow

sepr west- steeper a

second car park parallel to the road, straight back to Satnall Hills Hills Satnall to back straight road, the to parallel park car second

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. Here, take the left fork and turn left to Castle Ring Ring Castle to left turn and fork left the take Here, . rise sharp a

and generating generating and 42

to Coldman’s Slade and take the footpath from the back of the the of back the from footpath the take and Slade Coldman’s to

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to the crest of of crest the to stream second the past Ring, Castle to on straight

the opposite bank bank opposite the 41 to the A513 and turn right. Follow the road road the Follow right. turn and A513 the to Estate Shugborough

to the road follow the Heart of Way to the left, continuing continuing left, the to Way England of Heart the follow road the to

valley, undercutting undercutting valley, 40

. Follow the road and Way through the the through Way Staffordshire and road the Follow . Bridge Essex

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and when it returns returns it when and path the along Continue right. the on footpath

opposite side of the the of side opposite Continue along the towpath to Trent Lane and turn left to cross cross to left turn and Lane Trent to towpath the along Continue

left through a small car park on to a footpath. After 100m, take the the take 100m, After footpath. a to on park car small a through left

stream to the the to stream

turn left across a field, then follow the path back to the canal. canal. the to back path the follow then field, a across left turn

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. Turn right along Colliery Road and then then and Road Colliery along right Turn . crossroads the to it

that pushed the the pushed that 39 . Continue through the wood exiting by another stile, and and stile, another by exiting wood the through Continue . Caves

Drive / at a T-junction and turn left, following following left, turn and T-junction a at Way England of Heart / Drive

small landslides landslides small valley on the right down to a stile into a wood. Follow the path to Cliff Cliff to path the Follow wood. a into stile a to down right the on valley

Continue straight ahead along the main path until it meets the Marquis Marquis the meets it until path main the along ahead straight Continue

in summer caused caused summer in

and take a right fork. Continue across a field taking the second main main second the taking field a across Continue fork. right a take and

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The Levels near Brereton Brereton near Levels The . .

accumulate on east-facing slopes. Melting of these snow banks banks snow these of Melting slopes. east-facing on accumulate Haywood, cross the canal by the iron bridge, pass under the railway railway the under pass bridge, iron the by canal the cross Haywood,

through Stile Cop car park and follows an escarpment emerging at at emerging escarpment an follows and park car Cop Stile through

these regimes. South-westerly winds would have caused snow to to snow caused have would winds South-westerly regimes. these 38 , and at the canal take the towpath left. Approaching Great Great Approaching left. towpath the take canal the at and , Bridge

mountain bike trail, through Regent’s Wood to Stile Cop. It continues continues It Cop. Stile to Wood Regent’s through trail, bike mountain

8 are also characteristic of of characteristic also are Sherbrook the like valleys of sections Follow the A51 towards Stone, cross the Trent by the Wolseley Wolseley the by Trent the cross Stone, towards A51 the Follow

An alternate route turns left near the the near left turns route alternate An valley. the up track the follow

h aymti cross- asymmetric The

Wolseley Centre – Satnall Hills 38-42 Hills Satnall – Centre Wolseley

main road and follow the side road down to the farm. Turn left and and left Turn farm. the to down road side the follow and road main Meltwater channel, Alaska channel, Meltwater nature of the plateau. plateau. the of nature

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. Cross the the Cross . valley the of side other the up then and bridge rail

valleys and the dissected dissected the and valleys

follow it to Wolseley Bridge. Bridge. Wolseley to it follow

straight on along the wide track to the road. Turn right, beneath the the beneath right, Turn road. the to track wide the along on straight

the occurrence of dry dry of occurrence the

37 36 and and track the down right Turn . track farm a to wood a through

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continue continue Brook Stony crossing After left. the to path main the take

the sandstones, explains explains sandstones, the

take the footpath opposite, following the field boundary and pass pass and boundary field the following opposite, footpath the take

Continue past the entrance to the Forest Centre and the houses, and and houses, the and Centre Forest the to entrance the past Continue

weathering breaking up up breaking weathering 35 . Return downhill and turn right along Mount Road. At the junction, junction, the At Road. Mount along right turn and downhill Return .

influence of freeze-thaw freeze-thaw of influence Birches Valley – Castle Ring 11-17 Ring Castle – Valley Birches straight across and take the footpath to the summit of Etching Hill Hill Etching of summit the to footpath the take and across straight

combination with the the with combination after 450m turn right along West Butts Road to the end. Continue Continue end. the to Road Butts West along right turn 450m after

Road. Turn left and then right to the Birches Valley Visitors Centre. Visitors Valley Birches the to right then and left Turn Road.

brief summers. This, in in This, summers. brief for 100m, then left along a footpath to Chaseley Road. Turn left and and left Turn Road. Chaseley to footpath a along left then 100m, for

Stafford Brook Road until it meets a T-junction with Bank Bank Penkridge with T-junction a meets it until Road Brook

snow melted during the the during melted snow 34

. On reaching the main road turn right right turn road main the reaching On . Lane Jones along Continue

10 9 . Continue to the road and turn right along along right turn and road the to Continue . exposures rock and surface drainage when when drainage surface

Slitting Mill – Wolseley Centre 33-37 Centre Wolseley – Mill Slitting

trail descends to a view point across the old part of Quarry Quarry Rugeley of part old the across point view a to descends trail would have promoted promoted have would

sharp right and then turn immediately left at the notice board. The The board. notice the at left immediately turn then and right sharp

development of permafrost permafrost of development

33 . . station pumping Mill Slitting to left footpath the Take

As the path bends left, meeting several others, take the bridle path path bridle the take others, several meeting left, bends path the As subject to cold conditions similar to northern Canada today. The The today. Canada northern to similar conditions cold to subject

Back-track and follow the Heritage Path left down the valley. valley. the down left Path Heritage the follow and Back-track Centre.

Haywood. Little at canal the to on and Trent the crossing park, car At other times, the Chase was free of glacier ice but was still still was but ice glacier of free was Chase the times, other At

right, opposite the Victory Hall, back to the Birches Valley Forest Forest Valley Birches the to back Hall, Victory the opposite right,

alternate route runs down Abraham’s Valley, past the Seven Springs Springs Seven the past Valley, Abraham’s down runs route alternate suggests they were eroded subglacially. subglacially. eroded were they suggests

continues past the pub, turns left at the road and then takes the path path the takes then and road the at left turns pub, the past continues

An An Valley. Abraham’s crossing on straight and point trig a past on

beneath the ice, the undulating profile of the northern channels channels northern the of profile undulating the ice, the beneath

32 An alternate route route alternate An . pond mill Horns past path the Follow gate.

Follow the right fork up a dry valley. Continue straight straight Continue valley. dry a up fork right the Follow Hill. Harts to

can only flow uphill underneath a glacier, being under pressure pressure under being glacier, a underneath uphill flow only can

31 . At the Heritage Path, turn left and then right through a a through right then and left turn Path, Heritage the At . stream

The left fork follows the alternative route back back route alternative the follows fork left The fork. a to 150m left path 3 2 highlight the erosion of glacial meltwater. As water water As meltwater. glacial of erosion the highlight , chase

path beneath the railway and straight across the field crossing the the crossing field the across straight and railway the beneath path

8 . Follow the the Follow . Brook Sher cross to down signpost the at left fork 200m,

perimeter of the the of perimeter

30 30 and down the the down and farmyard the through passing track farm the along

signpost on the Heart of England Way and turn right to follow it. After After it. follow to right turn and Way England of Heart the on signpost

around the northern northern the around

straight ahead across the minor road and across the main A460 A460 main the across and road minor the across ahead straight

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Misfit river Misfit

7 , head away from the car park towards a a towards park car the from away head , Boulder Glacial the From incised channels channels incised

Coppice Lane for 400m and take the right fork uphill. Continue Continue uphill. fork right the take and 400m for Lane Coppice

sre o deeply- of series a

Glacial Boulder – Birches Valley 7-10 Valley Birches – Boulder Glacial 29 28 . Turn left along along left Turn . Rugeley of outskirts the to right fork and parks

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and and ,

27 . Continue to the end of the business business the of end the to Continue . Road Colliery crossing left,

Way, taking the right fork after 250m to the Glacial Boulder. Glacial the to 250m after fork right the taking Way, linking Rugeley and and Rugeley linking

Retrace your steps to the Brereton-Ravenhill Way and follow it to the the to it follow and Way Brereton-Ravenhill the to steps your Retrace

left then immediately right at the signpost along the Heart of England England of Heart the along signpost the at right immediately then left

prominent valley valley prominent

26 . . quarries Mound Victoria the into left your

right around the top of Milford Quarry to Freda’s Grave car park. Turn Turn park. car Grave Freda’s to Quarry Milford of top the around right

landforms. Both the the Both landforms.

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. Follow the bridle path on the opposite side of the road on on road the of side opposite the on path bridle the Follow . bend

6 5 . Go back past 5 and take the first path on the the on path first the take and 5 past back Go . & Quarry Milford to most impressive impressive most

Ravenhill Way for 50m and take the path to the left up to the road road the to up left the to path the take and 50m for Way Ravenhill

the Chase. After 300m, take the track right and continue straight on on straight continue and right track the take 300m, After Chase. the

has generated the the generated has

24 . Go straight on to the Brereton- the to on straight Go . heap spoil a on emerging right,

Follow Brook Lane to the left. At the T-junction, turn left back onto onto back left turn T-junction, the At left. the to Lane Brook Follow

glacial meltwater meltwater glacial

23 22 , over a stream and follow the valley to the the to valley the follow and stream a over , & downhill heading

down to the bottom of the Mere Valley and go right to Brook Lane. Lane. Brook to right go and Valley Mere the of bottom the to down

long distances, distances, long

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. Carry straight on, keeping the ridge to your right eventually eventually right your to ridge the keeping on, straight Carry . road

4 . Continue straight on on straight Continue . Hill Broc to ascent initial the after left forking transport material material transport

on and straight across the the across straight and on

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7 . Here, take the narrow track straight on upwards upwards on straight track narrow the take Here, . Pool Mere to demonstrates the ability of glaciers to to glaciers of ability the demonstrates Boulder Glacial the Whilst

22 Eastern Boundary Fault Boundary Eastern

the marker post, continuing continuing post, marker the

2 . Follow the footpath straight ahead ahead straight footpath the Follow . Hill Harts passes valley The last 2 million years has had a dramatic impact on the landscape. landscape. the on impact dramatic a had has years million 2 last

Take the track to the left at at left the to track the Take

care , and take the footpath at the far end of the Punch Bowl car park. park. car Bowl Punch the of end far the at footpath the take and ,

The episodic growth and retreat of the British Ice Sheet over the the over Sheet Ice British the of retreat and growth episodic The

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. . Brook Red the cross and

taking extreme extreme taking 1 car park, cross the A513, A513, the cross park, car Quarry Hills Satnall From have further accentuated the relief. the accentuated further have

the main path. Continue down, down, Continue path. main the

subsequent differences in the rates of weathering and erosion erosion and weathering of rates the in differences subsequent

19 then forking left on on left forking then fence Satnall Hills – Glacial Boulder 1-6 Boulder Glacial – Hills Satnall

more resistant than the mudstones of the surrounding area and and area surrounding the of mudstones the than resistant more

along the path parallel to the the to parallel path the along

sandstones (see cross-sections). These rocks are harder and and harder are rocks These cross-sections). (see sandstones Take care crossing all roads. all crossing care Take

difficult. difficult. and then immediately right right immediately then and

ice). Tectonic processes resulted in the local uplift of Triassic Triassic of uplift local the in resulted processes Tectonic ice).

the proliferation of tracks on can make navigation navigation make can Chase Cannock on tracks of proliferation the Castle Ring. Turn left downhill downhill left Turn Ring. Castle

(earth movements) and surface denudation (by wind, water and and water wind, (by denudation surface and movements) (earth

guide in conjunction with the Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 244 as as 244 Map Explorer Survey Ordnance the with conjunction in guide continue on to the far corner of of corner far the to on continue

prominence reflects the combined influence of tectonic processes processes tectonic of influence combined the reflects prominence

We advise visitors to use this trail trail this use to visitors advise We italics in shown are circuits shorter . 18 point view the From

in elevation that stands proud of the surrounding valleys. Its Its valleys. surrounding the of proud stands that elevation in Alternative routes making making routes Alternative sections. in it attempting recommend

Castle Ring – Slitting Mill 18-32 Mill Slitting – Ring Castle Cannock Chase comprises an undulating plateau 150-250m 150-250m plateau undulating an comprises Chase Cannock The trail is probably too long to be completed in one go so we we so go one in completed be to long too probably is trail The

GEOMORPHOLOGY DIRECTIONS GEOTRAIL

GEOLOGY LOCATION MAP

Newcastle The rocks of Cannock Chase belong predominantly to the -under-Lyme The Stone Triassic Period (here 250-245 million years old). These overlie the GEOTRAIL A Weston Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures (314-312 million years old) 5 0 1 separated by a 60 million year unconformity during which the older 3 A A 14 5 3 1 N rocks were deformed, uplifted and eroded. 4 Cannock Chase 8 51 A The Carboniferous muds, coals M Great 6 and ironstones were deposited Haywood near to the equator in a low- Stafford Geotrail Satnall Hills lying muddy delta. Periodic Quarry 8 A513 Colwich 51 A A emergence of the delta top 4 P Wolseley

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9 Centre allowed plants to colonise the Newport P A 3 Brocton Cannock A5 surface, the remains of which 4 1 A Landscape Evolved from were compressed to form coal. Chase 13 P 11 Spoil heaps These coals, and associated Glacial Rugeley Desert, Swamp and Ice A Boulder P 5 Birches 1 ironstone bands have been Valley 3 A M 5 extensively mined on the southern margin of the Chase. 1 6 Tamworth By the Triassic, Britain had moved to the northern desert latitudes. The A460 pebbly Formation was Penkridge deposited in a large braided river Castle B A flowing northwards from mountains 5 0 3 P Ring 1 4 located in Northern France. The 1 Pitted pebble 2 liver coloured quartzite pebbles are believed to have originated there and very rare limestone pebbles A5 0 5 km 12 have been found to contain fossils from the Ordovician period of Cannock Brittany. Other pebbles include white vein quartz used in glass Birmingham making, pink rhyolites and black basalts. The Kidderminster Formation is both an important source of aggregates and water. A project managed by Ian Stimpson and Richard Waller on behalf of the Stafford- shire RIGS Group with financial support from the Staffordshire Aggregates Levy The overlying Bromsgrove Sandstone is finer grained and lacks Grant Scheme 2008. Text and photographs by members of the Staffordshire RIGS pebbles, indicating a decline in energy in the Triassic rivers, Group. Design by Rosie Duncan. becoming meandering in nature as the mountains subsided. This unit has been used as a building stone and equivalent rocks The Staffordshire RIGS Group gratefully acknowledges the support of: beneath Morecombe Bay form a reservoir for natural gas. • British Geological Survey • Cannock Chase ANOB Unit • National Trust • Council Schematic geological sections across Cannock Chase • Forestry Commission • Staffordshire County Council • Cannock Chase Mining Historical Society NORTH SOUTH Castle Ring A member of UKRIGS, the Staffordshire RIGS Group is a voluntary organisation responsible for the conservation of regionally important geological and geomor- Cannock Chase Beaudesert Old Park phological sites in Staffordshire. For more information contact: Trent Staffordshire RIGS – www.staffs-rigs.org.uk Valley Unconformity North Staffordshire Group Geologists’ Association – www.esci.keele.ac.uk/nsgga Staffordshire Wildlife Trust – www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk Remember to follow the country code and please do not hammer rock surfaces. Be Not to scale safe, plan ahead and follow any signs; leave gates and property as you find them; protect plants and animals and take your litter home. Keep dogs under control and consider other people. Please adhere to all Forestry Commission instructions and WEST EAST warnings Stafford Eastern Needwood Printed by MC Print Services Tel: 01782 370080 Cover Photograph: Source of the Sher Brook Basin Cannock Chase Boundary Basin Fault Hopwood Fault Fault Unconformity

Not to scale

CCGCOVER10.3.09.indd 1 10/3/09 17:53:43 The Cannock Chase Geotrail

To Introduction Tixall To Slitting Mill - Wolseley Centre 33-37 Stone KEY Welcome to the Cannock Chase Geotrail. This geotrail is de- Stafford shire & The Slitting Mill 33 forged Worcesters To GEOTRAIL Major road signed to give a glimpse of the rocks, landscape and the geo- hire Canal Coley nails from iron extracted logical industrial heritage of the area. The trail is 36 km, too GEOTRAIL/ Minor road GREAT from local ironstones. This long to be tackled all in one. We recommend completing it in w o Road shared Footpath S HAYWOOD is now a pumping station Essex 40 sections from the car parks at Satnall Hills, Glacial Boulder, r Bridge e PH iv S extracting water from the Alternative route 1 Interest point Birches Valley Forest Centre, Castle Ring and Wolseley R

Kidderminster Forma- Centre. Trail directions can be found on the reverse Shugborough Bromsgrove Sandstone, River Hall MM tion, a major aquifer Cliff Caves 39 P Car Park of this leaflet together with background information. 41 for the region. Canal Some sections of the trail can be muddy and un- The Bromsgrove Sandstone, deposited in WC Toilets even so the use of suitable footwear is advised. LITTLE Colliery HAYWOOD low energy meandering rivers, is ex- Parts of the trail are in areas managed by the Shugborough To Information Park Farm 39 PH posed at the top of Etching Fault with direction i Stone Forestry Commission and areas of active for-

Hill . A 15th Centu- of downthrow 35 estry working should not be entered. Tempo- Public House PH ry glass furnace 42 Coal seam rary closures of parts of the trail may be nec- T R which used E Café essary and alternative routes should be N Colwich T Tr Railway P A ent sought. All features should be viewed 513 and River Me Railway tunnel SATNALL V A rsey L L C Shop To E a S from the geotrail unless a permitted Y n A51 WOLSELEY BRIDGE HILLS Trent a Stafford Weetman’s l access route is indicated. WC P 1 Bridge P i S View Point Bus stop

t Satnall Hills - SEVEN SPRINGS PH 0 1 km To P A513 Glacial Boulder Milford xall Faul

Ti Harts 1-6 2 S 38 Hill he r B the white quartz pebbles from the conglomerates as raw ro Satnall Hills Quarry 1 o Wolseley Broc k KF A51

3 Bridge k material has been discovered at 36. The trail crosses shows the pebbly Kid- Hill o To o r two faults marked by valleys near 37 which downthrow

B Rugeley

derminster Formation 4 alley d

V r the Bromsgrove Sandstone in between Kidderminster o f

that underlies most of ere f a

M t Formation rocks. The material in the track and fields

Brocton Coppice y S Cannock Chase. This e ll changes from pebbles to sand and back again. a BS was deposited in a V ’s m large braided river. BROCTON a Wolseley Centre - Satnall Hills 38-42 h rook a r Small pit marks on b 37 Milford Freda’s Grave A ld B To Contrast the broad Trent Valley 38 which carried huge O

the pebbles formed Quarry P Car Park Rugeley

5 S quantities of meltwater during the last Ice Age with

due to quartz dissolv- h

6 e 36 r the valleys seen elsewhere on the trail. At Cliff ing where the pebbles b

r Etching

o k o Caves the Bromsgrove Sandstone is spec- P o 39 o Hill pressed against each oth- k r

B M tacularly exposed in a building stone quarry with

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d d s pickaxe marks visible on the faces. Excavation V r

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Harts Hill and the Mere a f 2 B

l f Ch l as u e a followed the main sandstone horizon into the t e l t

y ey t Valley 3 are unusual as they GLACIAL S R s

o a R d hillside forming caves. d Do not enter the go both up and down hill. This is BOULDER 9 10 7 caves. Essex Bridge 40 took pack horses characteristic of erosion by water P Rugeley Quarry To carrying coal from the mines on to the flowing under pressure beneath a Rd k Rugeley o south to the salt brine works in the glacier. From Broc Hill 4, the low o Chase 8 k o Trent Valley. A river terrace can be P BS o To Road r ground of the softer Mercia Mud- ord Br f B Corner f a J seen on the wide flood plain near Cannock t o g n n d S e stones of the Stafford Basin can be d R s i Woo is sley 34 41. Com- King SLITTING MILL L R To seen beyond the Tixall Fault, the an PH e 33 Rugeley pare the flatter profile of western boundary of Cannock Chase. The Berkswich Sundial is made from blocks of fossiliferous Car- BIRCHES VALLEY Eastern Boundar the Sherbrook Valley 42 Bank 32 boniferous Limestone from Caldon Low in the . At Milford Quarry 5 and 6, the pebbly Kid- e FOREST CENTRE ridg enk as it enters the Trent derminster Formation includes thin sandstone layers. The quarry is a major national resource of sand and P 31 alley P WC S Valley with that gravel. Please do not enter the quarry as it is a conservation area. i Birches V seen further y Faul MM Glacial Boulder - Birches Valley 7-10 Brook upstream t y To n o 30 Rugeley at 8. The Glacial Boulder 7 is granite. Its faceted sides were St Ravenhill 0 k 6 29 caused by abrasion as it was transported under a glacier, o 4 11 A o

Br 28 BRERETON probably from the Lake District. The Sherbrook Valley 8 is Coppice g ad n o Fair Oak 1 i R s PH asymmetric, steeper on the eastern side and more strongly gul- i rd o R f es 27 lied. This is characteristic of valleys n Belfast ed H developed under permafrost conditions 13 KF Flaxley The Levels (see overleaf). The Sher Brook is a misfit 12 KF 25 M 26 river. Its large valley formed during the last if lin Old s P V Ice Age as meltwater from surface snow and a Engine 24 l Hill le BS y 4 View across Stafford Basin ice was unable to soak into the frozen ground. d Hayes To oa The Kidderminster Formation can be viewed from Stile R

Hednesford y Cop er lli Brick Kiln 23 the trail in the old Rugeley Quarry 9 and at the trail o S P C t i l e

side 10. It is sandier than at Satnall Hills Quarry, sug- C 22 o CM p 7 gesting a lower energy part of the braided river system. R d KF Ma rqu is Birches Valley - Castle Ring 11-17 Drive 14 Startley Sta rtle 21 y BS Fair Oak Colliery had shafts through the Triassic rocks to the Coal Measures 90m below. Lane 15 To Spoil heaps of dark grey shale 11 contrast the surface pebble beds. The trail continues

along the line of the colliery railway. Rising Brook 12 is another misfit river, dwarfed by its ad M o utc R h 20 y ill’s deeply-incised valley 13, possibly cut by the draining of a glacially-dammed lake. Triassic le Gutter ge u rocks were deposited unconformably on top of deformed Carboniferous mudstones and coals R To (see cross-sections). Colliery Road 14 runs Red Brook above the unconformity which can be recogn- Hazelslade

ised on the trail 15 by the change from drier, peb- 16 BS bly conditions to wetter and muddier ones. The Old Park Coal outcrops just beyond Red Brook 16 19

and numerous small bell pits were dug here. Circu- CM MM lar depressions near the trail mark some of these. 17 18 CASTLE RING Ironstone was also extracted and smelted locally us- KF ing charcoal. Orange sandstone breccia, the Hopwas P PH Formation, occurs in a metre high section to the left of the HB d ill R Cannock H trail at the base of the Triassic 17. Below this, the Castle lly 13 Meltwater channel o Wood Ring Coal was extracted to the north of Castle Ring. H Castle Ring - Slitting Mill 18-32 The view from Castle Ring 18 shows the low ground beyond Rugeley formed by the soft Mercia Mudstone rocks of the Needwood Basin with the Peak District beyond. The trail between 19 and 29 follows the Eastern Boundary Fault, responsible for bringing the coal close enough to the surface to be mined. At 19 the higher ground marks the Bromsgrove Sandstone across the fault. The Kidder- minster Formation forms the ridge between 20 and 21. At 22 coal fragments are visible in the muddy track and bell-pit depressions occur near by. Pebbles return as the fault is crossed and the track be- comes sandier as it passes into the Bromsgrove Sandstone 23. The stream here is red-orange from the leaching of ironstones within the coal spoil tip which can be examined at 24, the site of the Old Engine Pit. The Eastern Boundary Fault can be seen at 25 with downthrown Bromsgrove Sandstone nearest the road and Kidderminster Formation behind. The latter unit can be seen in the quarry 26. The track from 24 to 27, 28 & 29 is the old colliery railway. The Levels and Belfast Pits were near 27 Iron stained stream 23 and the Coppice Pit at 28. From 29, the view is from the high ground of the Kidderminster Forma- tion across to the lower ground of the Mercia Mudstone beyond the boundary fault. The trail from 30 to 32 re-crosses the misfit Rising Brook31 valley. Compare the valley profile to that at 13. The far valley edge is a fault with Bromsgrove Sandstone 32. The escarpment at 34 also marks the fault.

Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Mapping with the permission of the controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Crown Copyright 2009, Staffordshire Wildlife Trust License No. AL100032203. Geological information based upon BGS 1:50,000 Geological Map Sheets 140 (Burton-on-Trent) and 154 () with permission of the British Geological Survey. Additional geological mapping by Ian Stimpson.

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