Upper Millichope Fossils and Fossil Collecting
Your Shropshire Geological Guide and Geology Info

A stream section which has been cut back into highly fossiliferious Silurian Rocks. Plenty of excellent corals can be found, brachiopods, bivalves and Trilobites. Most of the fossils have been washed out from their rocks just lying in the stream.

Upper Millichope has lots of fossils to find, but you must not hammer the bank.

(Not Suitable for Children)

This location is not suitable for Children

Upper Millichope is easy to find, but it can be difficult to walk through the stream especially after heavy rain when the stream is full.

Stream

Fossils are found in the stream.

SSSI

No Hammering the bank

Other Locations similar to Upper Millichope

Upper Millichope is an excellent location for corals, other similar locations for Silurian Corals in the Shropshire District are; Shadwell Quarry , Wenlock Quarry, Mortimer Forest , Llanymynech Quarry, and Wenlock Edge. In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Corals from Marloes Sands. In Scotland, you can also find corals at St Monans

For trilobites, further locations in Shropshire are Vinnels,Hillend, Wenlock Quarry,Hope, Betton Dingle, Wenlock Edge, Mortimer Forest and The Onny Trail. In South West Wales, you can also find Silurian Trilobites from Marloes Sands and Abereiddy . In scotland you can find Carboniferous Trilobites and tracks at Aberlady.

You can also collect carboniferous Corals from;Parkhouse Hill, Portishead and Weston-Super-Mare in Avon, or along the South West Coast, you can also collect Devonian Corals from Torquay along Hopes Nose and Daddy Hole and Castleton in the Derbyshire district..

For Corals from Younger period, the Coralline Crag at Ramsholt makes ideal collecting.