{"id":4416,"date":"2015-12-11T20:52:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:22:16","slug":"may-hill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/may-hill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"May Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4708\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4708\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4708\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/may-hill-view-to-the-horseshoe-bend-of-the-river-severn-which-marks-teh-southern-most-extent-of-the-AMHG-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"View from May Hill to the horseshoe bend of the River Severn - the southern most extent of the Geopark\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/may-hill-view-to-the-horseshoe-bend-of-the-river-severn-which-marks-teh-southern-most-extent-of-the-AMHG-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/may-hill-view-to-the-horseshoe-bend-of-the-river-severn-which-marks-teh-southern-most-extent-of-the-AMHG-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/may-hill-view-to-the-horseshoe-bend-of-the-river-severn-which-marks-teh-southern-most-extent-of-the-AMHG-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/may-hill-view-to-the-horseshoe-bend-of-the-river-severn-which-marks-teh-southern-most-extent-of-the-AMHG-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from May Hill to the horseshoe bend of the River Severn &#8211; the southern most extent of the Geopark<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Geological overview<br \/>\n<\/b>May Hill is the most conspicuous landscape feature in the southern part of the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark and the views from the top are spectacular in all directions. The striking differences in landscape produced by the diverse underlying geology can be clearly seen in the contrast between the hilly uplands, produced by the older Palaeozoic rocks to the west, and the flat plain of the Severn Vale to the east, formed by softer Mesozoic sediments. Even on the hill itself there are minor variations in relief caused by the diversity of Silurian rocks outcropping. These range from hard limestones to soft sandstones and siltstones and contain a varied assemblage of characteristic Silurian fossils.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The underlying structure of the area is that of a NE trending pericline, truncated by faulting in the north and south, and bounded by more faults to the west and east; the eastern fault being an extension of the major East Malvern Fault that separates the Palaeozoic rocks from the Mesozoic sediments of the Vale. Within these faults, the rocks are folded into a dome, which has been eroded, leaving the oldest rocks exposed in the centre of the dome \u2013 the May Hill inlier.<\/p>\n<p><b>Location<br \/>\n<\/b>May Hill, Gloucestershire; Grid Reference: SO 6955 2133<\/p>\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open along public rights of way<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Silurian\u00a0 &#8211; May Hill Sandstone Group<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom the top of the inlier of May Hill views stretch in all directions towards landscapes underlain by rocks of various ages<\/p>\n<p><b>Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/b>Section 15 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<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/3s-uncovered-may-hill-geology-and-landscape-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May Hill &#8216;uncovered&#8217; &#8211; geology and landscape trail <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from May Hill to the horseshoe bend of the River Severn &#8211; the southern most extent of the Geopark<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geological overview May Hill is the most conspicuous landscape feature in the southern part of the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark and the views from the top are spectacular in [&#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\/4416"}],"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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}