Editing Merrybent (section)

==Geography==
This is a [[linear village]] arranged in a north-west to south-east alignment on the [[A67 road]] where it crosses the Motorway [[A1 road (Great Britain)|A1]], {{convert|1|mi|km}} west of the edge of [[Darlington]]. Although the A1 is part of the landscape, there is no access to it from the A67. The underlying geology is [[Glacial period|glacial]] [[clay]] with areas of [[gravel]], [[sand]], [[peat]] and [[alluvium]], and outcrops of [[Dolomite (rock)|dolomite]] and [[carboniferous limestone]].<ref name="MotorwayArchiveA1"/> Gravel extraction south of the village in the fields bordering the river Tees occurred in the early 20th century. This has left regular shaped treeless field boundaries and a stepped relief pattern.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}