Explore the Landscape Around Westbury White Horse

The chalk escarpment above Westbury's White Horse forms the northern edge of Salisbury Plain. In the spectacular panorama, you can see the effect of the different rock types on the landscape and the trail also explains how people have taken advantage of the geology. The Beggar's Knoll chalk pit (ST 890 507) has an information board beside the public footpath, overlooking it.

Explore the Landscape Around The Upper By Brook Valley

This trail shows how geology is intimately linked to the activities of the people living here. The By Brook valley cuts deeply down into the water-bearing Cotswold limestones, the source of the river. The fast-flowing waters have been utilised for centuries. The same clear water needed for industrial processes, was a source of power for fulling mills, often converted for paper-making or for grinding corn into flour when the woollen industry fell into decline. The rocks represent a variety of shallow marine sub-tropical sea floor environments of the mid-Jurassic sea and fossils can be found in the road-cutting at Giddeahall (ST 854 746).

Explore the Landscape Around the Vale of Pewsey

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Explains the landscape of this beautiful area, as well as the history dating back to prehistoric times and the stone used in the buildings. It shows how the underlying rocks have affected both the landscape and people. Printed on weather-resistant card and folded to make a 12 page pocket-sized pamphlet, this landscape guide encompasses the Vale of Pewsey which runs for some 15 miles (24km) east of Devizes between Salisbury Plain and the Marlborough Downs. It can be purchased for £1.95 from local tourist 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.

Explore the Landscape Around Bradford-on-Avon and Avoncliff

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This trail guides you around this picturesque stone-built town and along the Kennet & Avon canal, exploring the way local geology has influenced the town's growth and buildings. There is an interesting canal-side excavation, with information board beside it, showing the Jurassic Forest Marble sea floor, complete with fossil fauna living there, which can be picked up from the sides of the site (ST 825 603). 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.