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 will also walk over some of the oldest rocks in the British Isles, before descending through terrain that once graced the bottom of a warm shallow sea. The route follows part of an old salt way, a pack horse track used for transporting salt from Droitwich. The track ran from the Rhydd Ferry on the River Severn, across the Malvern Hills at the Old Wyche Road, down The Purlieu and on to Bosbury.

This trail takes approximately two hours to complete.

ISBN: 0-9543572-0-5

References
For more information about the general area:
Barclay, W.J., Ambrose, K., Chadwick, R.A. & Pharoh, T.C.(BGS), (1997) Geology of the Country around Worcester. Stationery Office, London.
Bennett, A., (1942) The Geology of Malvernia. Malvern Naturalists' Field Club.
Bullard, D.W., & Morris, L., (1989) Malvern Hills: A student's guide to the geology of the Malverns. Nature Conservancy Council. Peterborough.
Cutler, A., Oliver, P. G. & Reid, C.G., (1990) Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve - Geological Handbook and Field Guide. Dudley Leisure Services Department.
Dreghorn, W., (Date not known) The Malverns and May Hill. Enterprise Local Books. Cheltenham.
Hurle, P., (1992) The Malverns. Phillimore & Co Ltd
Osborne, B., and Weaver, C., (2001) 3rd edition. Springs, Spouts, Fountains and Holy Wells of the Malvern Hills. Cora Weaver. Malvern
Penn, J.S.W. and French, J. (1971) Geologists' Association Guides, No. 4 The Malvern Hills. Benham and Co. Ltd. Colchester.
Smith, B.S., (1978) A History of Malvern. Alan Sutton & The Malvern Bookshop.
Stringer, S.W.C., (1954) History of Colwall. Colwall & Malvern Libraries.