Table of the Localities op the Drifts op the Avon Valley and adjoining Districts, with their Heights above the Sea*.
Upper Series, ranging from 430 feet to 300 feet above the level of the sea.
Localities. Letters of reference.
Environs of Rugby (maximum height) ... A, B, D.
Stretton, near Dunsmore (vicinity of) B, D.
Kenilworth Common A ?.
Snitterfield, near Warwick B, C, D, E.
Welcombe Hill, near Stratford- on- Avon B, C, D, E.
Brick-yard near the New Inn, "the Ridgway" B, C, D, E.
Weethley and Cook's Hill B, D.
Oversley Upper Lodge farm, near Alcester F.
Church Lench D (G,F?).
Cracombe Hill, near Evesham F.
Sheriffs Lench F.
Approximate Height above sea- level.
ft. 380 350 325 300 351 430 350 310 355 370 350
Approximate Height above the River.
ft. 89 75 60 112 211 390 250 190 305 320 310
Lower Series, ranging from 300 feet to 60 feet above the level of
the sea.
Welford and Weston Holes, near Stratford F.
Berry's Coppice, Donnington G.
Green Hill, Evesham G.
Knowle Hill, Evesham (brick- yard) G.
Charlton Hill ? G or F.
Cropthorne Heath G.
Cropthorne Hill (summit of) G.
Brick Hill, near Pershore G.
Mount Pleasant, Pershore
- Beckford I.
Bredon's Norton I.
Bredon G.
Shuthanger and Shoebarrow Commons, G. Tewkesbury
224 280 200 160 160 120 120 150 140 120 104 114
124 180 120 80 103 70 80 110 110 70 67 88
Freshwater Series, ranging from 274 feet to about 30 feet above sea- level.
Beds of gravel and sand from between Rugby and Stoneleigh to near Tewkesbury, ranging from about 10 feet in the upper valley, to 40 feet in the lower valley, above the existing river.
Modern alluvium from Rugby to Tewkesbury.
Brickearth at Bengeworth and Bricklehampton Bank near Cropthorne.
Peat- bed at Chadbury.
- The heights above the river are measured from the point nearest to the
locality. The sign ** indicates the presence of marine shells and mammalian remains ; ___ indicates mammalian remains without marine shells.
