{"id":4430,"date":"2015-12-11T20:38:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:23:39","slug":"the-holding-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/the-holding-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holding Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Holding Pens<\/p><\/div>\n

Geological overview
\n<\/b>The Holding Pens is a small quarry located adjacent to the Severn Valley Railway viaduct. Slightly set back from the road, it is approximately 10m in depth, 10m high and 6m wide.<\/p>\n

The geology of The Holding Pens dates to the Permian period, approximately 295 million years ago. The exposure and the building stone of the viaduct that forms the southern margin of the site, are comprised solely of the Bridgnorth Sandstone Formation, a series of sandstones deposited in a desert environment.<\/p>\n

The Holding Pens is a Community Conservation Champions<\/a> site.\u00a0 The \u2018Champions\u2019 are a loosely knit group of volunteers who are actively involved in the maintenance and public promotion of 19 geological sites spread across the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. They are engaged in a wide range of activities which vary according to the nature of the site.<\/p>\n

Location
\n<\/b>Bewdley, Worcestershire Grid Reference: SO 7905 7545<\/p>\n

Access
\n<\/b>Permission required to access the quarry. Please contact<\/a> the Community Conservation Champions. The quarry can however be viewed from the roadside.<\/p>\n

\"Champions-Logo-Final1-300x249\"<\/a>Geologi<\/b>cal Age
\n<\/b>Permian – Bridgnorth Sandstone<\/p>\n

Rock Types
\n<\/b>Sedimentary \u2013 Sandstone<\/p>\n

Features
\n<\/strong>Sedimentary structures<\/p>\n

Interpretation
\n<\/b>Interpretation board on site
\n\u2018Bewdley Champions\u2019 booklet <\/a>available from Bewdley Tourist Information Centre
\nInformal guided visits to the sites can be arranged. Please contact<\/a> the Community Conservation Champions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The Holding Pens<\/p>\n

Geological overview The Holding Pens is a small quarry located adjacent to the Severn Valley Railway viaduct. Slightly set back from the road, it is approximately 10m in depth, 10m high and 6m wide.<\/p>\n

The geology of The Holding Pens dates to the Permian period, […]<\/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\/4430"}],"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=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6519,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}