Fossil Valley, Twiston Near Downham, Lancashire

The Journal of Antiquities

Rock with Crinoid Fossils From Twiston, Lancashire.

OS grid reference: SD 8090 4444. Something of a curiosity this one, maybe.In the wall along a stretchof the lane that runs throughthe long, narrowvalley between Twiston and Downham, at the north-western side of Pendle Hill,in Lancashire,are lumps of locally quarried ‘Fossiliferous Limestone’made upof crinoid and coralfossils, which datebacksome 500-300 million yearsto the Carboniferous period in Geological hist...