• Bagshot Beds are a series of sands and clays of shallow-water origin, some being fresh-water, some marine. They belong to the upper Eocene formation of...
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  • Edinburgh Bagshot Rural District, now Surrey Heath, a local government district in Surrey Bagshot F.C., Surrey, England Bagshot Formation, an Eocene...
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    or Claygate Member forms a transition between the clay and the sandier Bagshot Beds above. This is shown separately on many geological maps, and often...
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    century. Geologically, Wokingham sits at the northern end of the Bagshot Formation, overlying London clay, suggesting a prehistorical origin as a marine...
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    statesman Charles James Fox. In geology it gives rise to the name, Bagshot Formation. The western section of the district is largely urbanised, with heaths...
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    acidic soil, much of it boggy or covered in gorse and bracken (see Bagshot Formation). It held little use for agriculture compared to the long-grazed chalk...
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    Island is composed of layers of London Clay and sand (part of the Bagshot Formation), formed principally during the Eocene. Northern areas of the city...
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    western end of a plateau of sand and gravel which forms part of the Bagshot Formation. The plateau runs on an east–west axis, and its top originally consisted...
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    woodland in the acidic heath of Surrey Heath on the elevated Bagshot Formation (Bagshot sands). To the north and west is (in Berkshire) part of Swinley...
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    borders of Pyrford and Chertsey parishes, was an extensive mere on the high Bagshot Sand, drained and planted at the time of its enclosure, 29 September 1815...
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