Geology of the Country Around Sudbury (Suffolk) : Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 206 (England and Wales)

The district described in this memoir is typical of prosperous, rural East Anglia.

The local economy and landscape are dominated by agriculture.

Geology, at first glance, appears to be of minor importance as an influence on the scenery and on industry other than agriculture.

However, it is the primary control on the nature and distribution of two major resources, aggregate and groundwater.

The district is blanketed by a thick cover of glacial clay till.

Underlying the whole district is a great thickness of chalk, an important source of groundwater, but previously little studied.

A broad picture of the local Chalk stratigraphy and structure has now been deduced using palaeontology and borehole geophysical logs.