Natural England - England's geology by county
England's geology by county
This section describes England's geology county by county. The descriptions aim to give a sense of local geological history, some geological highlights and suggestions of places to visit.
To find out more, select the county you are interested in from the list below.
Definitions of geological terms can be found in the glossary.
- Bedfordshire (including Luton)
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire (including City of Peterborough)
- Cheshire
- Cornwall (inc Isles of Scilly)
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire (including City of Derby)
- Devon (including Plymouth and Torbay)
- Dorset (including Poole and Bournemouth)
- Durham (including Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesborough, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland)
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Essex (including Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea)
- Gloucestershire
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester (including: Wigan, Bolton, Salford, Trafford, Bury, Rochdale, Stockport, Manchester, Tameside and Oldham)
- Hampshire (including: Isle of Wight, Southampton, Portsmouth, Havant)
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Kent (including Medway)
- Lancashire (including Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool)
- Leicestershire (including City of Leicester and Rutland)
- Lincolnshire (including North and North East Lincolnshire)
- Merseyside (Halton, Sefton, Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and the Wirral Districts)
- Norfolk
- North Somerset (South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset and City of Bristol)
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire (including Milton Keynes)
- Nottinghamshire (including City of Nottingham)
- Northumberland
- Oxfordshire
- Shropshire (including Telford and Wrekin)
- Somerset
- South Yorkshire (Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster Districts)
- Staffordshire (including City of Stoke-on-Trent)
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex - East and West (including The City of Brighton and Hove)
- Tyne and Wear
- Warwickshire
- West Berkshire (including Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell Forest, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Slough)
- West Midlands (City of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry Districts)
- Wiltshire (including Swindon)
- West Yorkshire (Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds, Kirklees and Wakefield Districts)
- Worcestershire