PREFACE • LIST OF FIGURES • INTRODUCTION: Geology of the Strata in England Before 1719, John Strachey (167 1-1743), ‘Stonehenge Stukeley’ and the Easterly Dip, William Smith (1769-1839), William Smith’s Geology After 1801 • ITINERARY OF SITES IN BATH: No.29 Great Pulteney Street, Trim Street, Bloomfield Crescent, Batheaston Coal Trial, 1804 -1813 • ITINERARY OF SITES SOUTH OF BATH: Sutton Court, Strachey’s Section of the Strata, 1719, Stowey, and the Jones Inheritance, Rugbourne Farm, High Littleton, Mearns Colliery, The Somersetshire Coal Canal, Dunkerton Wharf and the Fosse Way, Dunkerton, the Old Swan Inn, Combe Hay, Rowley Farm and Caisson House, Tucking Mill, Midford, Hill Farm, near Pipehouse, Midford, Broadfield Farm, Hinton Charterhouse, Farleigh Hungerford, the Church and Rectory • CONCLUDING REMARKS • General Information on Sources and Text References