Wiltshire Geology Group

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Wiltshire's landscape is inextricably bound up with the rocks beneath the surface. It is our aim to raise public awareness of Earth Sciences and draw peoples attention to the way the landscape, and the towns and villages within it, are influenced by the underlying geology.

Books & Articles

THE BUILDINGS OF WILTSHIRE an exploration through the Earth materials used by Stephen Hannath

WILTSHIRE and the EARLY DEVELOPMENT the SCIENCE of GEOLOGY by Stephen Hannath

GEOLOGY, LANDSCAPE and BUILDING STONE around BRADFORD-ON-AVON by Isobel Geddes - a publication for Bradford Museum obtainable from the library & TIC

HIDDEN DEPTHS Wiltshire's Geology & Landscapes by Isobel Geddes - this is out of print but second-hand copies are available online

ETHELDRED BENETT 1775 - 1845 by Stephen Hannath - VIEW BELOW

CHALK & CHEESE Wiltshire’s rocks and their impact on the natural and cultural landscapes by Steve Hannath

THE BUILDINGS OF WILTSHIRE is £5 plus £1.50 p&p: email stevehannath@talktalk.net

OUT OF PRINT - can be bought second-hand online

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CHALK & CHEESE Wiltshire’s rocks and their impact on the natural and cultural landscapes by Steve Hannath

Chalk & Cheese is nearly 100 pages of full colour maps and illustrations. It explores the relationships between the rocks underground and aspects of Wiltshire life such as the Natural Landscapes, Prehistory, Vegetation & Farming, Vernacular Architecture, Settlement Patterns & Routes, Extractive Industries and Water Resources. It is not a book on the geology of Wiltshire per se but rather one for the general reader interested in what underpins the environment of this beautiful county.
CHALK & CHEESE may be purchased for £7.50 from the author and THE BUILDINGS OF WILTSHIRE is £5 plus £1.50 p&p: email stevehannath@talktalk.net

ETHELDRED BENETT 1775 - 1845 by Stephen Hannath

A local Wiltshire woman sometimes dubbed the ‘Mother of English Geology’

2015 saw the bi-centenary of the publication of the world’s first geology map by the man deemed the ‘Father of English Geology’, William Smith, but remarkably it was also the bi-centenary for a geological milestone for Etheldred Benett, a local Wiltshire woman sometimes dubbed the ‘Mother of English Geology’. Her achievement in 1815 was to produce the first annotated bed-by-bed section of the Chicksgrove Quarry near Tisbury where stone from the Purbeck and Portland beds in the Vale of Wardour is still extracted today and from where a unique range of fossils, particularly plant and reptile remains, have been found.

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