The Severn Valley Region - Southern England - page 184

FIG 175. The River Severn flows towards us past the cathedral in Worcester. The wide
floodplain contains the cricket ground (to the left of the river) and the racecourse (to the
right of the river), both flooded when the photograph was taken. (Copyright Dae Sasitorn
& Adrian Warren/www.lastrefuge.co.uk)
FIG 176. Looking westwards over Warwick Castle and the River Avon, which flows to the
left on its way to join the Severn near Tewkesbury. (Copyright Dae Sasitorn & Adrian
Warren/ www.lastrefuge.co.uk)
The important development of surface-blanket sediment in this Area provides an
excellent example of how difficult it can be to separate and distinguish events in the
history of the Ice Age. Wolston Quarry ( c4 ), between Coventry and Rugby, has given
its name to the Wolstonian , which was claimed to be a distinct episode of ice advance
and retreat later than the Anglian but before the Devensian (see Chapter 2, Fig. 13).