{"id":4393,"date":"2015-12-11T21:16:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:17:32","slug":"dog-hill-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/dog-hill-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Hill Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4642\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4642\" class=\"wp-image-4642 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dog-Hill-Wood-Ledbury-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dog Hill wood, Ledbury\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dog-Hill-Wood-Ledbury-4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dog-Hill-Wood-Ledbury-4-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dog-Hill-Wood-Ledbury-4-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dog-Hill-Wood-Ledbury-4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dog Hill Wood, Ledbury<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Geological Overview<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong>TDog Hill Wood and the immediate surrounding area tell a fascinating geological story. Byinterpreting the different rocks seen, including their relationships to each other, the incredible story of how these rocks came into being, along with the events that took place to shape the landscape, all begin to emerge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rocks that underlie Dog Hill Wood all formed during the Silurian Period. It was a pioneering British geologist, Sir Roderick Murchison, who first identified this series of\u00a0 rock in the 1830s during his extensive field investigations in South Wales and in Herefordshire.<\/p>\n<p><b>Location<br \/>\n<\/b>Ledbury, Herefordshire; Grid Reference: SO 7127 3837<\/p>\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open along public right of way<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Silurian\u00a0 \u2013 Wenlock<br \/>\nSilurian &#8211; Ludlow<\/p>\n<p><b>Rock Types<br \/>\n<\/b>Sedimentary &#8211; Limestone; shale<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><strong>Features<br \/>\n<\/strong>Variable lithologies<br \/>\nFossils<br \/>\nLocal geological history and structural setting<\/p>\n<p><b>Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/b>Interpretation board on site<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/1s-ledbury-over-coral-seas-and-sandy-deserts-a-walks-for-health-leaflet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ledbury \u2013 Over coral seas and sandy deserts<\/a> (a \u2018Walks for Health\u2019 leaflet)<br \/>\nSection 11 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/category\/explore-geology-landscape\/walking-trails\/the-geopark-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geopark Way<\/a> trail<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dog Hill Wood, Ledbury<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geological Overview TDog Hill Wood and the immediate surrounding area tell a fascinating geological story. Byinterpreting the different rocks seen, including their relationships to each other, the incredible story of how these rocks came into being, along with the events that took place to shape the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}