Geological Sites | Leeds
| Bradford | Calderdale
| Kirklees | Wakefield
 STATUS: RIGS
OTHER DESIGNATIONS:
COUNTY: West Yorkshire
DISTRICT: Calderdale
OS GRID REF. SE 127 217
OS 1:50,000 Landranger 104 Leeds and Bradford
OS 1:25,000 Explorer 288 Bradford and Huddersfield
BGS 1:50,000 Sheet 77 Huddersfield (Solid and Drift)
FIRST DESIGNATED by West Yorkshire RIGS Group in 1996
MOST RECENT SURVEY
SITE DESCRIPTION:
Extensive beds of Upper Carboniferous Langsettian (Coal Measures) clays,
shales and sandstones are exposed in a 75m high quarry face at Calder
Brick works, south of the river Calder. The exposure lies between the
overlying Elland Flags and the Stanningley Rock. A thin coal and a
marine band lie within the exposure.
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Numerous brickworks and pipeworks in the Brighouse and Elland area have
exploited these deposits for several centuries.
 EDUCATIONAL VALUE:
Not suitable for educational use at the moment due to ongoing quarrying.
A proposed
development at this site may enable an exposure to be retained for geological
study.
AESTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS:
There are extensive views over the Calder Valley. The parts of Strangstry
Wood that have yet to be quarried are much used for recreational purposes.
ACCESS AND SAFETY:
No access to Calder Brick Works quarry. This is a working quarry and
should not be entered. Footpath access to Strangstry Wood is from Elland
Lower Edge (128 216).
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