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BGS Technical Report WA/97/03 15 December 1991
1. INTRODUCTION
This account describes the geology of the north flank of the Dove valley from the eastern
neighbourhood of Hilton to the A38 and Willington Hill. The area also encompasses the
generally sparsely populated ground to the north which rises locally to hills up to c. 90 m above
OD and is dissected by the valleys of Etwall Brook and its tributaries. The geology is depicted
on 1 : 10 000 sheet SK 23 SE (Etwall; Figure 1). Most of the area covered by the sheet forms part
of 1 :50 000 Geological Sheet 141 (Loughborough) although a narrow strip along its western
margin falls onto 1:50 000 Sheet 140 (Burton upon Trent).
Figure 1. Location of the area with respect to adjacent 1 : 10 000 mapped sheets
The first geological survey of that part of the present area to the east of Etwall was undertaken
on the one-inch to one-mile scale by E Hull during the 1850s; it was published as part of the
south-western quarter of Old Series One-Inch Geological Sheet 71 (Nottingham) in 1855. That
part of the area to the west of Etwall was similarly published between 1852 and 1855 as part of
the south-eastern quarter of Old Series One-Inch Geological Sheet 72 (Burton etc.). No
geological descriptions were published to accompany these early maps. Most of the present area
was resurveyed on the six-inch scale by C Fox-Strangways between 1901 and 1902 and T I
Pocock in 1903 and published as part of the New Series One-Inch Geological Sheet 141
(Loughborough) in 1904. Based on this survey, a geological account of the Loughborough
district by Fox-Strmgways was published in 1905. The extreme western margin of the study area
was resurveyed by G H Mitchell in 1947 as part of the New Series One-Inch Geological Sheet
140 (Burton upon Trent), published in 1953. A geological memoir on that district was published
shortly after (Stevenson & Mitchell, 1955). As part of the 1 : 10 000 scale revision of Sheet 141,
A Brandon and A H Cooper surveyfd the southern and northern halves of the area respectively
in 1996.
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