Canyards

Today's U3A walk took us from Bradfield, along the top of Agden Rocher and on to the Canyards. The weather was wonderful even if the Lumix wasn't.

Agden Rocher is an extended rock face over looking Agden Reservoir.

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Wikipedia tells us that the "Canyards Hills possess the most impressive examples in England and Wales of 'ridge-and-trough' or 'tumbled ground.' Beneath a 10 m high cliff, the north-facing valley side above Broomhead Reservoir is a chaotic mass of sub-parallel ridges, separated by intervening narrow areas of marshy ground. The site is formed in Upper Carboniferous Millstone Grit and shows the most extreme form and best example of 'tumbled ground', with innumerable small Millstone Grit blocks (controlled by jointing) taking up a large landslip".

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Yesterday's walk was from Hassop.

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