Publications
The geology of the country around Heathfield, Sussex: With report of excursion to Heathfield, Brightling, Netherfield and Robertsbridge. Saturday, June 4th, 1921, by Henry B. Milner, M.A., F.G.S., published 1922 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 33 issue 2, article, pp.142-151) View Online
Abstract:The country visited embraces an area extending from Heathfield eastwards to the main Tunbridge Wells-Hastings Road, a distance of ten miles, being naturally defined to the north by the high ground of Burwash, and to the south by the ridge on which Dallington and Netherfield are situated. In this comparatively small portion of the central Weald the geology is of exceptional interest, presenting as it does features of stratigraphical, tect onic and economic importance.
Notes on the geology and structure of the country around Tunbridge Wells: With report of excursion to Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, High Rocks and Eridge. Saturday, May 20th, 1922, by Henry B. Milner, M.A., D.I.C., F.G.S., published 1923 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 34 issue 1, article, pp.47-55) View Online
Abstract:The following notes describe the geology of some forty square miles of country in the vicinity of Tunbridge Wells, stretching northward almost to Tonbridge and southward to Eridge and Boarshead in Sussex, and as far as Groombridge and Ashurst to the west, of which some of the main features were investigated by members of the Association during the excursion. The six-inch mapping of this area is a continuation of the author's work in the Weald, of which some results have already been published in these proceedings.
The Tunbridge Wells country presents many geological features meriting the attention of those interested in the Weald. Much to be learned from a detailed study of the Lower Cretaceous rocks as developed here, and from their modes of occurrence, has a wider significance than would at first be apparent from casual inspection; thus certain phases in the course of the evolution of the Weald as a whole are realised, the nature of the evidence permitting of a ready appreciation of the factors involved.
The normal Wealden sequence comprises (in descending order) Weald Clay (1200ft.), Tunbridge Wells Sand (180ft.), Wadhurst Clay (150ft.), and Ashdown Sand (400ft.); all four divisionsoccur in this region. In the paper above referred to, the author drew attention to the great practical value accruing from a petrographic study of the individual Wealden beds as an aid to geological mapping. The rocks of the district, by their general barrenness of fossils and by the marked similarities shown frequently by the clays and sands, serve to emphasize this point, especially in cases of repetition or elimination of beds by faulting, a prominent feature of the area. Consequently in the following paragraphs stress is laid on the petrographic criteria which have contributed so largely to the identification and differentiation of horizons in the field.
The Tunbridge Wells country presents many geological features meriting the attention of those interested in the Weald. Much to be learned from a detailed study of the Lower Cretaceous rocks as developed here, and from their modes of occurrence, has a wider significance than would at first be apparent from casual inspection; thus certain phases in the course of the evolution of the Weald as a whole are realised, the nature of the evidence permitting of a ready appreciation of the factors involved.
The normal Wealden sequence comprises (in descending order) Weald Clay (1200ft.), Tunbridge Wells Sand (180ft.), Wadhurst Clay (150ft.), and Ashdown Sand (400ft.); all four divisionsoccur in this region. In the paper above referred to, the author drew attention to the great practical value accruing from a petrographic study of the individual Wealden beds as an aid to geological mapping. The rocks of the district, by their general barrenness of fossils and by the marked similarities shown frequently by the clays and sands, serve to emphasize this point, especially in cases of repetition or elimination of beds by faulting, a prominent feature of the area. Consequently in the following paragraphs stress is laid on the petrographic criteria which have contributed so largely to the identification and differentiation of horizons in the field.
The Geology of the country around East Grinstead, Sussex: With Report of Excursion to Hartfield, Holtye Common, Forest Row, Ashurstwood and East Grinstead, Saturday, June 16th, 1923, by Henry B. Milner, M.A., D.I.C., F.G.S., published 1923 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 34 issue 4, article, pp.283-300) View Online
Abstract:The country to be described covers an area of some thirty-six square miles and is embraced by parts of Sheets IV. and VI. and the whole of Sheet V. of the six-inch Ordnance Survey maps (Sussex). It is a continuation westward of the author's work in the Tunbridge Wells district, some results of which were published in a recent number of these proceedings. The area includes the town of East Grinstead with Felbridge, and extends as far east as Ashurst (Kent); to the north it takes in Cowden (Kent) and a small strip of the Surrey-Sussex border-land; southward it extends to the northern fringe of Ashdown Forest and includes the picturesque country from Kingscote by Forest Row to Hartfield and beyond.
It has been the author's hope that by a combination of six-inchmapping and detailed petrographic investigation of the rocks occurring in the more disturbed area of the Weald, new light would be thrown on some of the still debatable points concerning its tectonics and on the origin of the sediments composing it, anticipations yet further strengthened by the results of the work in this district.
It has been the author's hope that by a combination of six-inchmapping and detailed petrographic investigation of the rocks occurring in the more disturbed area of the Weald, new light would be thrown on some of the still debatable points concerning its tectonics and on the origin of the sediments composing it, anticipations yet further strengthened by the results of the work in this district.
The Geology of the country between Goudhurst (Kent) and Ticehurst (Sussex): With special reference to the Excursion to Goudhurst, Lamberhurst Cousleywood and Wadhurst, Saturday, June 21st, 1924. Weald Research Committee Report No. 1, by H. B. Milner, M.A., D.I.C., F.G.S., published 1924 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 35 issue 4, article, pp.383-394) View Online
Abstract:The country included in this area lies to the east of Tunbridge Wells, and embraces the picturesque East Sussex-Kent borderland with the villages of Goudhurst, Lamberhurst, Wadhurst and Ticehurst, comprising a district of thirty-five square miles. It lies principally in the southern part of the Medway basin, though it also takes in a portion of the watershed between that and the Rother basin, the divide being formed by the high ground of Ashdown Forest (Crowborough) and Rotherfield to the west, continuing eastward to Wadhurst, Ticehurst, Cranbrook and beyond. Geologically and tectonically the main features of interest centre round the compound Crowborough-Ticehurst fold, extremely fractured in its eastern development, and in the relationship of that fold to the more northerly Chiddingstone-Pembury anticline, already alluded to in a previous paper.
The Geology of the Eastbourne - Hastings Coastline: With Special Reference to the Localities visited by the Association in June, 1925. Weald Research Committee Report No. 3, by H. B. Milner, M.A., D.I.C., F.G.S. and A. J. Bull, M.Sc., F.G.S., published 1925 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 36 issue 3, article, pp.291-316) View Online
Abstract:The following pages present in outline the geology of the coast-section exposed from Beachy Head to Cliff End, beyond Fairlight, a distance of 26 miles. One of us (A.J.B.) is responsible for the survey from Beachy Head to Rockhouse Bank, the other (H.B. M.) from Rockhouse Bank eastward to Cliff End. The work forms part of the six-inch geological survey of the Weald being under taken by members of the Weald Research Committee of the Geologists' Association.
The authors wish to point out that they do not here include the inland geology of the districts traversed, except in so far as exigencies of building or similar circumstances necessitate a detour for a few hundred yards inland to preserve continuity of geological description. For this reason much that is generally known to be of unusual interest in the region, especially in the vicinity of Hastings and S1. Leonards, finds no mention here, the object being rather to draw attention to this exceptionally fine coast-section, wherein is displayed such varied stratigraphy and tectonics, and also to render it possible for casual visitor or more serious student to explore it with some guide to the trend and sequence of geological events.
The description of the coast is arranged from west (Beachy Head) to east (Cliff End); but so as to enable those who desire to pick up the thread at any particular place, insets in the text indicating localities have been employed, from which a start can be made at will.
This section of coast has on it the towns of Eastbourne, Bexhill, St. Leonards and Hastings, while smaller residential and holiday resorts are springing up at Fairlight and Cooden, and even in unpromising places on the edge of the marsh-land.
The authors wish to point out that they do not here include the inland geology of the districts traversed, except in so far as exigencies of building or similar circumstances necessitate a detour for a few hundred yards inland to preserve continuity of geological description. For this reason much that is generally known to be of unusual interest in the region, especially in the vicinity of Hastings and S1. Leonards, finds no mention here, the object being rather to draw attention to this exceptionally fine coast-section, wherein is displayed such varied stratigraphy and tectonics, and also to render it possible for casual visitor or more serious student to explore it with some guide to the trend and sequence of geological events.
The description of the coast is arranged from west (Beachy Head) to east (Cliff End); but so as to enable those who desire to pick up the thread at any particular place, insets in the text indicating localities have been employed, from which a start can be made at will.
This section of coast has on it the towns of Eastbourne, Bexhill, St. Leonards and Hastings, while smaller residential and holiday resorts are springing up at Fairlight and Cooden, and even in unpromising places on the edge of the marsh-land.