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Bradford-on-Avon and Avoncliff Information Board and Trail Guide
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A project funded by Awards for All and Natural England in 2007 resulted in both a trail-guide around this picturesque stone-built town and the excavation of an interesting Jurassic sea-floor, with information board beside it.
The excavation site is at Baileys Barn Road, Moulton Drive on the margin of a huge pit created in the 18th century to obtain clay for the lining of the Kennet and Avon Canal. The pit is famous for fossils and has been described by several geological authors. Fossil sea-creatures can still be picked up from the sides of the site.
The information board itself (see pictures) is situated on the edge of the specially excavated demonstration pit.
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The Bradford-on-Avon Claypit information board (Click on picture to open full resolution image) 
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The Landscape and Geology Trail guides you around this picturesque stone-built town of Bradford-on-Avon and along the Kennet and Avon canal, exploring the way local geology has influenced the town's growth and buildings.
The guide is printed on weather-resistant card and folded to make a 12 page pocket-sized pamphlet. It makes an ideal landscape companion for a 4.5 miles (7km) walk examining the relationship between the local landscape and the underlying rock, including the way that the town grew up as a result of the woollen mills along the River Avon, with people taking advantage of the local geology for building stone, water power and canal-building.
It can be purchased for £1.95 from local tourist information outlets, online or by mail-order (adding a £1.50 handling charge) from www.thematic-trails.org or Thematic Trails, 7 Norwood Avenue, Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire, OX13 5AD Tel: 01865-820522.
The guide is one of a series of Landscape and Geology Trails produced by the Wiltshire geology Group. Click here to see complete list.