Geology of the Beckbury and Worfield area, 1:10000 sheets SJ70SE & SO79NE : part of 1:50000 sheet 153 (Wolverhampton) and 167 (Dudley)

This report describes the geology of 1:lO 000 sheets SJ 70 SE (Beckbury) and SO 79 NE (Worfield) (Figure 1). This area was first surveyed geologically at the 1:lO 560 scale by R W Pocock and T Robertson in 1922 and 1923, and published on County Sheets Staffordshire 44SW, 44SE and 61SW, and Shropshire 52NW, 52NE, 52SW, 52SE, 59NW and 59NE. The one-inch Geological Sheet 153 (Wolverhampton) was published in 1929, and the accompanying sheet memoir (Whitehead et al.) dates fiom 1928. A 6 km strip at the western margin of the area ("99 - 305) was surveyed by R J 0 Hamblin in 1970-72 as overlap fiom Telford Special Sheet, published in 1978. The remainder was surveyed between 1997-98 by E Hough (north of northing 297) and by A J Barnett (south of northing 297).