LIMESTONES
INCLUDING SANDY LIMESTONES |
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Dorset |
Jurassic: Purbeck, Forest Marble |
South & East Somerset |
Jurassic: Forest Marble, Lias |
Sussex |
Cretaceous: Cyrena Limestone |
'The Cotswolds Region' North Wiltshire,
East Gloucestershire, North Oxford, South-east Worcestershire |
Jurassic: Purbeck, Corallian, Forest
Marble, Hampen Marly Beds, Trougham & Taynton Stone (Stonesfield Slate),
Fullers Earth, Chipping Norton Limestone |
East Midlands - Northamptonshire,
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire |
Jurassic: Blisworth Limestone, Upper
Estuarine Limestone, Chipping Norton Limestone, Lincolnshire Limestone
(Collyweston Slate), Northampton Sand, Lias |
North-east Yorkshire |
Jurassic: Scarborough Limestone |
Nottinghamshire to South Shields,
East Derbyshire |
Permian: Magnesian Limestone |
SANDSTONES
INCLUDING CALCAREOUS SANDSTONES |
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Surrey, Sussex, West Kent |
Cretaceous: Horsham Stone |
Gloucestershire, Bristol, South
Wales |
Carboniferous: Upper Westphalian
- Pennant Measures |
Welsh Marches - Gloucestershire,
Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire |
Devonian / Silurian - Pridoli: Tilestones
Old Red Sandstone - Dittonian, Downtonian,
Hereford Stone Tiles
Ordovician: Hoar Edge Grit, Cheney
Longville Flags |
South Pennines including East Cheshire,
North Staffordshire and North Derbyshire |
Carboniferous: Lower Westphalian
- Coal Measures, & Namurian - Millstone Grit |
Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland |
Carboniferous: Lower Westphalian
- Coal Measures, & Namurian - Millstone Grit |
Cumbria |
Carboniferous: Lower Westphalian
- Coal Measures & Namurian - Millstone Grit
Permian: New Red Sandstone - Penrith
Sandstone |
Dumfrieshire |
Permian: New Red Sandstone |
Caithness and Angus Devonian |
Old Red Sandstone |
Ross of Mull |
Precambrian: Mica-schist |
IGNEOUS |
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Shropshire |
Intrusive: Dolerite: Corndon Hill
Slates* |