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Dist:0.2km<br/>Built in 1882 by a firm of local builders (Jones & Sons of Sedgley) to a design by the architect C Round.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is looking from the old limestone quarries across parts of north Dudley towards Sedgley.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.3km<br/>Closed down at present, this sits on Parkes Hall Road
©Richard Law
Dist:0.3km<br/>Public House on the top of Mons Hill adjacent to the Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve. The pub name reflects the limestone mining history and presence nearby of caverns within the Reserve.
©John M
Dist:0.3km<br/>The limestone ridge of the Wren's Nest is an important geological reserve. For photos see [[SO9391]].
©John M
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Pub stands alongside the Dudley National Nature Reserve of Wrens Nest.
©Gordon Griffiths
Dist:0.4km<br/>The reservoir was constructed in the early part of the 19th Century by the Dudley Waterworks Company, to bring clean and potable water to the inhabitants of Dudley. A comprehensive account of the toings and froings of this undertaking is available at http://www.sedgleymanor.com/historical/parkes_hall_pool.html It's a coarse fishery these days.
©Richard Law
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©Row17
Dist:0.4km<br/>A pub on Sedgley Road.
©Gordon Griffiths
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Dudley limestone at Wren's Nest (now a nature reserve with an excellent geological trail) was quarried for several centuries for the lime and also as flux for ironstone.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.4km<br/>The view in the Dudley National Nature Reserve of Wrens Nest.
©Gordon Griffiths
Dist:0.4km<br/>My second real ale brewery of the day. The family run Holden's Brewery has been brewing at the Park Inn site since 1915. The company is now run by the third and fourth generations of the family. Holdens are well known for their Holden's Golden ale.
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>Another campus of Dudley College located near the summit of Mons Hill.
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>A path through the eastern limb of the anticline, formed from many beds of Silurian period Wenlock limestone. Rich in paleozoic fauna including the rare 'Dudley bug' a trilobite. Famous geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison studied the fossils here. The limestones were uplifted in the Caledonian and the Variscan orogenies (400 and 330ma).
©Ashley Dace
Dist:0.5km<br/>A path through the eastern limb of the anticline, formed from many beds of Silurian period Wenlock limestone. Rich in paleozoic fauna including the rare 'Dudley bug' a trilobite. Famous geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison studied the fossils here. The limestones were uplifted in the Caledonian and the Variscan orogenies (400 and 330ma).
©Ashley Dace

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