apping the "spinatus" beds are a few feet of
Upper Lias Clay belonging to the zone of _Ammonites serpentinus_, and
fragments of the Ammonites common to the horizon are scattered about; but
these beds are not found along the escarpment east of Shenloe Hill.

By the roadside leading from Burton Dassett to Fenny Compton, a small
quarry on the south side shows a patch of Inferior Oolite. A fault has
preserved this the only remnant to prove the former extension of the
Bajocian beds over the area of the Burton and Edge Hills. Tysoe Hill, four
miles S.W. of the Round House, and the hills which fringe the borderland
of Warwickshire and Oxon, are nearly all capped with sands or limestones
of the Inferior Oolite, and occasionally with the marly limestones of the
Great Oolite also.

[Illustration: BANBURY CROSS.]

III.

NOTES ON BANBURY AND THEREABOUT.

STATISTICAL TABLE.

Banbury, in N.E. Oxfordshire, on river Cherwell, drainage N. to S.

Altitudes: river level, 300 o.d.; the Cross, 331; high town, 424.

Average rainfall, 27.59 inches. Mean temperature, 41.5.

Population, Municipal Borough, 12,967.

Parliamentary division of Banbury, in W. Oxon., bounded E. by river
Cherwell, S. by line from E. to W. through Finstock. Member of Parliament,
1890, A. Brassey, Esq., Heythrop Park, Chipping Norton.

Railway Systems: G. W. R.; L. & N. W. R.; B. & C. R.; N. & B. J. R.; G. C.
R.

Canal: Oxford and Birmingham.

Table of Distances in miles from Banbury:--

Aylesbury 32
Bicester 15-1/4
Birmingham 42
Brailes 10
Buckingham 17
Byfield 9-1/4
Brackley 9
Charlbury 15-3/4
Chipping Norton 13
Cheltenham 39-1/2
Enstone 12
Edge Hill 8-1/2
Deddington 6
Daventry 17
Hook Norton 9
Harbury 14
Kineton 11-1/2
Leamington 21
London 70
Moreton-in-Marsh 21
Northampton 24
Oxford 22-1/2
Stratford-on-Avon 20
Shipston-on-Stour 13-1/2
Southam 14
Stow-on-the-Wold 20-1/4
Towcester 17-1/2
Warwick 20
Witney 23
Woodstock 16-1/2

_Municipal Properties and Buildings:_

The Cross
The Town Hall
The Old Bridge and Bridge-ways
The Municipal School
The Recreation Ground and Baths
The Spittal (Sewage) Farm