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Featured article Bristol and Gloucester regional guide The area dealt with comprises the Cotswolds and the Severn Estuary region, and includes the greater part of the counties of Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset (excluding west Somerset); also, for geological continuity, small parts of the counties of Gwent, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Wiltshire and Dorset. Geologically speaking, it is one of the most varied districts of Britain, for, with the exception of the Ordovician and possibly the Permian, there is exposed at the surface every geological system from the Cambrian to the Cretaceous . . . (Read the full article...)

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Featured image Blea Tarn and Langdale. Glaciated upland scenery. Blea Tarn occupies a combe, the backwall of which has been removed by the valley glacier that flowed down Great Langdale (seen in the distance). (See article...)

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