Comments on: Grinshill http://hypocentral.com/blog/2009/07/18/grinshill/ Greek: proposals, suppositions Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hollington « Hypo-theses http://hypocentral.com/blog/2009/07/18/grinshill/#comment-199 Hollington « Hypo-theses Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:50:33 +0000 http://hypocentral.com/blog/?p=615#comment-199 [...] My squelchy summer fieldwork continues with a visit to the Red Hole Quarry at Hollington, Staffordshire. Hollington Stone is Staffordshire’s most important building stone and has been used for many important buildings around the county including Lichfield Cathedral. It is Lower Triassic in age and at the same stratigraphic level as the Grinshill Stone I looked at in a previous post. [...] [...] My squelchy summer fieldwork continues with a visit to the Red Hole Quarry at Hollington, Staffordshire. Hollington Stone is Staffordshire’s most important building stone and has been used for many important buildings around the county including Lichfield Cathedral. It is Lower Triassic in age and at the same stratigraphic level as the Grinshill Stone I looked at in a previous post. [...]

]]> By: Julia http://hypocentral.com/blog/2009/07/18/grinshill/#comment-197 Julia Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:46:49 +0000 http://hypocentral.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197 My grandparents lived in Wem, just north of Grinshill, and it was a very popular place for us all to walk their dogs. The "Front Of Grinshill", which we accessed by parking next to the church in Clive, was the more usual walk, straight up to the top of the hill. Sometimes we would do the "Back of Grinshill", which meant we parked in Corbett Wood (correct me if I'm getting the names a little wrong - the dogs died over a decade ago!) just along the road from the quarry. We'd walk through the woods to what I remember as a very tall (by young child standards) pale yellow stone cliff. Interestingly enough, my grandparents told me that both Grinshill and the Wrekin were "extinct volcanoes". I now realise that much of the "lava" I found on the path up from Clive was tarmac... Thanks for allowing me my trip down memory lane! My grandparents lived in Wem, just north of Grinshill, and it was a very popular place for us all to walk their dogs. The “Front Of Grinshill”, which we accessed by parking next to the church in Clive, was the more usual walk, straight up to the top of the hill.

Sometimes we would do the “Back of Grinshill”, which meant we parked in Corbett Wood (correct me if I’m getting the names a little wrong – the dogs died over a decade ago!) just along the road from the quarry. We’d walk through the woods to what I remember as a very tall (by young child standards) pale yellow stone cliff.

Interestingly enough, my grandparents told me that both Grinshill and the Wrekin were “extinct volcanoes”. I now realise that much of the “lava” I found on the path up from Clive was tarmac…

Thanks for allowing me my trip down memory lane!

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