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2 unusual facts about Caradoc


Mel Veale

Mel Veale was the mayor of the Township of Strathroy-Caradoc, Ontario, the first mayor of the newly amalgamated township in 1998.

Red Screes

All the rocks of Red Screes are part of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, formed on the margin of an ancient continent during a period of cataclysmic volcanic activity during the Caradoc Epoch of the Ordovician Era, roughly 450 million years ago.


Caradoc Series

These zones are identical with those found in the rocks of the same age in North Wales, the Bala series, and the terms Bala or Caradoc series are used indifferently by geologists when referring to the uppermost substage of the Ordovician System.

John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron Howden

John Hobart Caradoc was therefore, the grandson of John Cradock (1708? – 1778), alias Craddock, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin from 1772, the Irish branch of the Protestant Church of England, nowadays.

Logan Scott-Bowden

In 1950 he married Helen Jocelyn, daughter of late Major Sir Francis Caradoc Rose Price, 5th Bt, and late Marjorie Lady Price.

Robeston Wathen Quarries

This site is designated due to its geological quality: Robeston Wathen Quarries SSSI has one special feature: Caradoc - Ashgill (late Ordovician) sedimentary rocks in disused quarries

Saint Caradoc

Caradoc, from this disgrace learned the inconstancy of worldly honours, and repaired to Landaff, where he received from the bishop the clerical tonsure, and for some time served God in the church of St. Theliau.


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