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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:0.1km<br/>Above a small unnamed valley, on the footpath between Eccle Riggs and Coal Gate. Black Combe is on the horizon beyond.

©Rob Noble

Dist:0.2km<br/>Over a stream in a small unnamed valley below Eccle Riggs.

©Rob Noble

Dist:0.3km<br/>A members only leisure club for people living in the local community. Viewed from the public footpath - a part of the Cumbria Coastal Way - that runs across the 9 hole golf course.

©Rob Noble

Dist:0.4km<br/>The junction of Back Lane with the minor road into Broughton-in-Furness

©Alexander P Kapp

Dist:0.5km<br/>Near Windmill Hill looking over the Duddon Valley

©Michael Graham

Dist:0.5km<br/>Near Windmill Hill

©Michael Graham

Dist:0.6km<br/>Taken on a dreadfull day with heavy rainfall.

©Nigel Chadwick

Dist:0.6km<br/>Between Foxfield and Broughton-in-Furness.

©Andrew Hill

Dist:0.7km<br/>On the road out of Broughton above Wreaks Moss

©Michael Graham

Dist:0.8km<br/>The road from Broughton in Furness to Grizebeck curves round to cross Wreaks Moss

©Ben Stafford

Dist:0.8km<br/>At Foxfield Bank, between Skellow Crag End and Coal Gate.

©Rob Noble

Dist:0.8km<br/>Access to the start of this path from the A595 is tricky as it involves a walk along a busy main road.

©Rob Noble

Dist:0.9km<br/>

©Andrew Hill

Dist:0.9km<br/>An outdoor education centre. See http://www.kepplewray.org.uk/

©Mick Garratt

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