Excerpt from The Geology of the Country Around Salisbury: Explanation of Sheet 298
The country described in this Memoir includes a large part of Salisbury Plain and part of the Vale of Wardour. The original Geological Survey was made by H.W. Bristow, and published on the old series sheets 14 and 15, in 1856 and 1857, without any accompanying Memoir.
The re-survey on the six-inch scale was commenced by Mr. A. J.Jukes-Browne in 1890, and resumed by Mr. F.J. Bennett in 1894, under the superintendence of Mr. Wbitaker. Mr. Bennett, who surveyed most of the ground, retired in 1899, and the field work in the Vale of Wardour was completed in 1900 by Mr. Clement Beid, to whom the preparation of the Memoir has been entrusted.
Few notes were left by Mr. Bennett, and Mr. Keid has availed himself of materials gathered by Mr. H.B. Woodward, and published in the General Memoir on the Jurassic Rocks, and of those by Mr. A. J.Jukes-Browne, some of whose observations have been published in the Memoir on Cretaceous Rocks, vol. i., or preparecffor the later volumes.
As the Portland and Purbeck strata of the Vale of Wardour extend a little way beyond the limits of the map, it has been deemed desirable to include descriptions of all the sections in the present Memoir.
While recognising our indebtedness to previous workers notably to Fitton, whose early observations made the Vale of Wardour classic ground for geologists, as well as to Brodie, Prestwich, Mr. W.H. Hudjeston, Prof. J.F. Blake, Dr. C.Barrois, and others, it is a satisfaction also to acknowledge the personal assistance rendered by the Rev. W.R. Andrews (formerly of Teffont Evias), and by Dr. H.P. Blackmore, of Salisbury, whose intimate knowledge of the Chalk, the Pleistocene, and later accumulations is so well known.
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