To the geologist this parish does not afford many interesting objects.
It is, however, more favourable than the last to agriculture; although
it contains several tracts of barren ground of the same nature as
Prince’s Common, which will be described in another place. Its rocks
are not distinctly characterised, being situated on the transition
between the porphyritic and the calcareous groups of slate formation.
[8] William of Worcester describes the Bishop’s castle here
as dilapidated temp. Edw. IV.
[9] The church of St. Allen was given to the college of
Glaveney by Bishop Stapleton, and appropriated to the vicars
of that college in 1314. Rot. Pat. 8 Edw. II. p. 2. m. 15.