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By the roadside at SD210867, Bush Green Quarry has a cliff-face 70m across and 10m high that shows 'sole structures' in the almost vertically bedded turbidite sandstones and mudstones (Coniston Grits) of Silurian age, about 400 million years old. These are knobbly lumps on the surface of the rock, formed by the deposition of hard material on the sea-bed by deep-water currents, and there are more than 1800 of them, mainly types known as flute and load casts, covering six bedding planes (see www.ougsnw.org.uk/photo_gallery/Geoscenes/ Foxfield.html). Further information see Moseley 1978 Geology of the Lake District, p 143, Yorkshire Geological Society.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The junction of Back Lane with the minor road into Broughton-in-Furness
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Near Windmill Hill looking over the Duddon Valley
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Near Windmill Hill
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.6km south<br/>Between Foxfield and Broughton-in-Furness.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.7km east<br/>On the road out of Broughton above Wreaks Moss
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.8km east<br/>The road from Broughton in Furness to Grizebeck curves round to cross Wreaks Moss
©Ben Stafford
Dist:0.9km east<br/>
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.9km east<br/>
©Andrew Hill
Dist:1.0km north<br/>A view of the little town on a frosty morning.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:1.0km north<br/>The old railway station (now a private house). Railway line was on the far side of the wall and ran from Foxfield to Coniston. It was a great asset to the area when it was open with steam passenger, and goods trains, running throughout the day.
©David Jackson
Dist:1.0km north<br/>This is taken from the old railway track, off Foxfield Road. See SD2087 for details of the church.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:1.0km north<br/>This was called Old Street in 1888. Further up on the left a school was built c.1866 to accommodate 113 children; it was funded by public subscription, replacing a previous smaller school. The police station was just past the end of the lane to the church.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:1.0km north<br/>The prosperity of the town in the 18C is illustrated by Broughton House, a wide three-storey building with a central portico. The owner was not a slave to symmetry as there are two ground floor windows on one side and only one on the other.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:1.0km north<br/>This connects Church Street with The Square. The gates of Broughton Tower can be seen in the distance.
©Humphrey Bolton

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