Landscape & Geology Trail
The Abberley Hills provide some wonderful scenery and viewpoints in north-west Worcestershire. This guide describes the landscape and explains its origins and takes you on a walking trail largely along the Worcestershire Way...   more »

Building Stones & Geology Trail
This walking trail shows how the location of Bewdley has been influenced by the underlying rocks and the River Severn. You will see that a major break in the Earth's crust runs right through the centre...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
Bredon Hill, imposing and slab-like, stands sentinel above the valley of the River Avon in south Worcestershire. Famous for its man-made earthworks, surrounded by a string of beautiful villages, popularised by ...   more »

Building Stones Trail
A gentle walk through this picturesque Cotswold village looking at the building stones and the origin of the warm creamy Jurassic limestones of the area. There is an optional walk to the ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
The geological history of Herefordshire is written in the landscape. It has not always been as you see today. Once this area was covered by a warm tropical sea. More recently the land was covered by ice. This trail tells how these conditions have formed the landscape ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
The Clent Hills stand proud and distinctive in the west Midlands landscape and provide excellent views over the surrounding area. The ancient rocks that underlie the Hills ...   more »

Building Stones Trail
This red sandstone castle is situated on a rock outcrop high above the River Wye. Rock has been quarried from the moat below to provide some of the building stone for the castle. At first glance it may seem as if the whole castle is built of ...   more »

Building Stones Trail
Great Malvern is characterised by the presence of the local Malvern rock. However it is also possible to see a number of other rock types used as building material. This guide aims to introduce the visitor to aspects of geology through the use of building ...   more »

Geology, River & Landscape trail
This fascinating trail follows the rivers Wye and Lugg along the line of the flood defence barrier, built after the disastrous floods in 1960, known locally as 'The Stank'. It looks at the river, how man has influenced it and how the ...   more »

Building Stones Trail
There has been worship on the site of Hereford Cathedral for well over 1200 years. The peaceful atmosphere has sunk into the very fabric of the building. The history of the use of stone in the building is an interesting one. At different times the priority ...   more »

Building Stones Trail
The city of Hereford nestles in the Wye Valley amid open countryside. Founded in Saxon times (as early as the 7th century), it is thought to broadly retain the original street plan. There is an interesting mix of buildings, from mediaeval lath and plaster ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
This circular walk guides you through four of the different rock types which makes up Lickey Hill. You will walk over heathland, through woodland and conifer plantations, and see panoramic views on a clear ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
The ancient rocks of the Malvern Hills form a boundary between the relatively flat Severn Plain of Worcestershire and the gently rolling hills of Herefordshire. This guide explains these different landscapes - how they were formed and ...   more »

Landscape & Geology trail
This trail looks at the history, on a time scale of thousands of years, of the deep valley of the River Lugg as it swings in a loop round Dinmore Hill in the Bodenham area, and also looks at the rocks through which the Lugg cuts, which were laid ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
This trail looks at the River Wye in the Ross-on-Wye area, a valley which is an abandoned former course of the river, the river terrace at Wilton, Old Red Sandstone rocks of the area and the use that has been ...   more »

Landscape and Geology Trail
This trail runs from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth. Steaming through geological time on the Severn Valley Railway, in the comfort of a railway carriage, you will encounter landscapes created in hot, dry deserts, steamy tropical ...   more »

Landscape & Geology trail
The view from Yat Rock is arguably one of the most beautiful in the country. The rock has attracted visitors for many years for aesthetic reasons. It is the geological and landscape history of the area that underlies this beauty. The ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
Imagine Herefordshire as a semi-desert devoid of life when life on land has hardly yet begun. Imagine Herefordshire as a warm tropical sea Ñ this piece of land was once at a latitude much nearer the equator than today. Imagine Herefordshire ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
The Woolhope Dome is an area of hills to the east and south-east of Hereford and can be approached on the B4224 road to Mordiford. On reaching Mordiford the hills rise abruptly from the flood plain of the rivers Lugg and Wye ...   more »

Building Stones Trail
The building stones used in Worcester Cathedral were formed in many different time periods and in many different geological environments. This trail is an introduction to time travel through the geological periods in the magnificent ...   more »

Building Stones Trail
The trail starts and finishes at the Guildhall, on the High Street. This elegant eighteenth century building is one of the finest Guildhalls of its type in the country and is a harmonious blend of brick and natural stone. The examples of building ...   more »

Geology & Landscape Trail
This walking trail covers a diverse range of landscape and geology features. The visitor will take in views across the relatively flat Severn Plain and compare them with views across the rolling limestone hills of eastern Herefordshire. The visitor ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail
This walk will guide you through sandstone and limestone landscape features and the rocks of two geological periods, the Devonian which started 395 million years ago and the Carboniferous which started 345 million years ago. You will see ...   more »

Landscape & Geology Trail The rocks of the Malvern Hills form a natural boundary between Worcestershire and Herefordshire. This guide illustrates and explains the landscape that you can see whilst walking around Midsummer Hill, situated ...   more »

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