{"id":4459,"date":"2015-12-11T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T09:22:41","slug":"southstone-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/southstone-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Southstone Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4719\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4719\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4719\" src=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12188991_1650051708601502_4554455385388244737_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Southstone Rock \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12188991_1650051708601502_4554455385388244737_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12188991_1650051708601502_4554455385388244737_n-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12188991_1650051708601502_4554455385388244737_n-400x533.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12188991_1650051708601502_4554455385388244737_n.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southstone Rock<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Geological overview<br \/>\n<\/b>The Teme valley is notable, especially in the Shelsleys area, for the locally abundant deposits of tufa. These calcium rich deposits formed, and in some cases are still forming, as spring waters are discharged through the underlying Bishops Frome Limestone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Southstone Rock is one of the largest mounds of tufa in the locality and pr<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">obably formed in part some six to seven thousand years ago. It is of interest both geologically and archaeologically. A small cottage was once situated on top of Southstone Rock. It was also thought to be the site of a chapel and a hermitage, although any traces of these are long gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tufa from the area has been quarried as a building stone. A prime example is the church of St Andrew in Shelsley Walsh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Location<br \/>\n<\/b>Stanford with Orleton, Worcestershire; Grid Reference: SO 7085 6395<\/p>\n<p><b>Access<br \/>\n<\/b>Open along a public right of way<\/p>\n<p><b>Geologi<\/b><b>cal Age<br \/>\n<\/b>Quaternary<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rock Types <\/strong><br \/>\nTufa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><br \/>\nTufa cliff<br \/>\nActive tufa formation<br \/>\nSpring line<br \/>\nSocial history<\/p>\n<p><b>Interpretation<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/2015\/12\/6c-southstone-rock-trail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southstone Rock geology trail<\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southstone Rock<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geological overview The Teme valley is notable, especially in the Shelsleys area, for the locally abundant deposits of tufa. These calcium rich deposits formed, and in some cases are still forming, as spring waters are discharged through the underlying Bishops Frome Limestone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Southstone Rock is one [&#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\/4459"}],"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=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6514,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/6514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geopark.org.uk\/pub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}