Geodiversity Landscapes: Aprons

Less well known to most people, and in some ways less distinctive, are the (mostly clay) Aprons that lie adjacent to the uplands. Skirting the areas of higher land are the Woolley Apron, the Woodwalton Apron, the Swavesey Apron, the Whaddon Apron and the Lode Apron. 

Younger than the Jurassic rocks, and therefore mostly lying to their south east, is the Cretaceous Gault clay and the lowest, very clayey, layer of the Chalk, the West Melbury Marly Chalk. These two rock formations underlie the Lode Apron and Whaddon Apron, and the southern part of the Swavesey Apron.