the geology of the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England which includes the modern administrative county together with the unitary district of Stoke-on-Trent...
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The geology of the Peak District National Park in England is dominated by a thick succession of faulted and folded sedimentary rocks of Carboniferous...
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The South Staffordshire coalfield is one of several coalfields in the English Midlands. It stretches for 25 miles / 40 km from the Lickey Hills in the...
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village in Staffordshire, England. It is noted for the theme park Alton Towers, built around the site of Alton Mansion, which was owned by the Earls of Shrewsbury...
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Needwood Basin (category Geology of Staffordshire)
A feature of the geology of England, the Needwood Basin extends beneath the eastern part of the Midlands county of Staffordshire. It is a depositional...
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The North Staffordshire Coalfield was a coalfield in Staffordshire, England, with an area of nearly 100 square miles (260 km2), virtually all of it within...
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Butterton-Swynnerton dykes (category Geology of Staffordshire)
are an assemblage of igneous intrusions which extend in a roughly north-northwest to south-southeast alignment through Staffordshire in the English Midlands...
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Stafford Basin (category Geology of Staffordshire)
A feature of the geology of England, the Stafford Basin extends beneath much of the Midlands county of Staffordshire. It is a depositional basin which...
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in the South Staffordshire district, straddling the borders of Staffordshire and the West Midlands County in England. It forms part of the wider Wolverhampton...
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Staffordshire Field Club was an organisation founded in 1865 to study the natural history, geology, industrial history, folklore and local history of...
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The geology of Hertfordshire describes the rocks of the English county of Hertfordshire which are a northern part of the great shallow syncline known as...
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Kettle (landform) (redirect from Kettle (geology))
Pradesh New Zealand Lake Matheson United Kingdom England Aqualate Mere, Staffordshire Barelees Pond, Northumberland Breckland, Norfolk/Suffolk called pingo...
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larger mass of the same younger rocks nearby. One example from Great Britain is the mass of Triassic sandstone around the Staffordshire town of Leek. This...
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The visible geology of Hampshire in southern England broadly comprises a folded succession of sedimentary rocks dating from the Cretaceous and Palaeogene...
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Keele University (redirect from University College of North Staffordshire)
kilometres) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, it was granted university status...
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Cheshire Plain (redirect from Shropshire, Cheshire & Staffordshire Plain)
further inland than elsewhere along the coast of the Irish Sea. Cheshire portal Geology of Cheshire Geology of Alderley Edge "Natural England - Cheshire"...
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Brown End Quarry (category Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire)
nature reserve of the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, near the village of Waterhouses in Staffordshire, England. It is designated a Site of Special Scientific...
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Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire Geology of England v t...
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the Staffordshire Peak District (grid reference SK096584). It is on the Manifold Way, an 8-mile (13 km) walk and cycle path that follows the line of the...
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Black Country (category Areas of the West Midlands (county))
November 1841, published in the Staffordshire Advertiser. He describes going into the "black country" of Staffordshire – Wolverhampton, Bilston and Tipton...
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The geology of the Isle of Wight is dominated by sedimentary rocks of Cretaceous and Paleogene age. This sequence was affected by the late stages of the...
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Devon (redirect from Geology of Devon)
Cretaceous geology of the region. The county gives its name to the Devonian geologic period, which includes the slates and sandstones of the north coast...
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formed a part of the counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester nor the northernmost part which now forms a part of Cumbria. The geology of Lancashire...
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Thomas Wardle (industrialist) (category Fellows of the Geological Society of London)
the North Staffordshire Field Club and in 1896 was awarded their Garner Medal "for his contributions to the Geology of North Staffordshire and to the...
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Staffordshire, England, just south of Lichfield. It lies on the site of the Roman settlement of Letocetum. The parish includes the small villages of Pipehill...
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CGS), County Geological Site (e.g. in Devon), County Geodiversity Site (e.g. in Norfolk), Local Geological Sites (e.g. in Staffordshire, Essex and Berkshire)...
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The geology of Surrey is dominated by sedimentary strata from the Cretaceous, overlaid by clay and superficial deposits from the Cenozoic. During the Early...
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Lichfield (redirect from Lichfield, Staffordshire)
parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated 18 miles (29 km) south-east of the county town of Stafford, 9 miles (14 km) north-east of Walsall...
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RAF Fauld explosion (category Military history of Staffordshire)
at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in Staffordshire, England. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the largest...
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Chell is a suburb of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, England, that can be subdivided into Little Chell, Great Chell...
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