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Wren's Nest was declared a national nature reserve in 1956, the UK's first national nature reserve for geology. [6] [13] In 2004, Wren's Nest and the nearby Castle Hill were declared Scheduled Ancient Monuments, as they represented the best surviving remains of the limestone industry in Dudley. The most impressive part of this is the last ...
The Much Wenlock Limestone Formation is a series of Silurian limestone beds that date back to the Homerian age, the later part of the Wenlock epoch. [1] [2] The formation comprises nodular to thinly bedded limestones, with variable development of reef bodies that can be found exposed at Wenlock Edge and in a small area near Dudley, England known as Wren's Nest.
In 1956 Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve (NNR) became the first area in England to be designated as a national nature reserve for the geological interest of its bedrock, and remains a key ‘geosite’ within the modern Geopark.
Lithographic Sketch, Dudley from Wren's Nest by Charlotte Murchison in The Silurian System, 1839, p.480. Murchison's View is named after him. The viewpoint within the Wren's Nest area of Dudley gives a panoramic view over much of Birmingham and the Black Country. Murchinson's visits to the limestone hills of Dudley helped him to develop his ...
Wren's Nest: 34.1 84.3 1990 Map: See also. List of SSSIs by Area of Search; List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Warwickshire; List of Sites of Special ...
Silurian sea bed fossils collected from Wren's Nest Nature Reserve, Dudley UK Eurypterus , a common Upper Silurian eurypterid Pterygotus was a giant eurypterid that had a nearly cosmopolitan distribution (reconstruction shown here is Devonian species P. anglicus )
Pages in category "Geology of the West Midlands (county)" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Wren's Nest This page was last ...
The geology exhibits were the 'most important collection' at the museum and were drawn from a collection of approximately 15,000 fossils from the local area including nearby Wren's Nest hill and Wren's Nest. The two geology exhibits are 'Dudley Unearthed' and 'Fantastic Fossils'. [10]