GeologyRocks

I think you'll find they are aeolian Triassic sandstones which developed after the formation of Pangaea in enclosed environments.

Including the Collyhurst Sandstone?

 I am also wondering about the so called Peel Sandstone, just down the riad from me.

 Expertise seems undecided on the age of this red sandstone ie Triassic or Devonian. 

In NW England and under the Irish Sea the sandstone (Collyhurst is  Lower Permian.  But there was confusion because the term . ‘Collyhurst Stone’ was first applied to a Carboniferous formation and was used for much of the building stone for Manchester  This was renamed as Binney Sandstone for the Carboniferous sandstone of Collyhurst, by the ESD of Manchester University and appeared in vol. 111 Issue 1 of the Proceedings of the Geologist Association.

From  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj.1129/abstract

An Early Devonian age for the continental, red-bed succession of the Peel Sandstone Group can be defined on the basis of: (1) a derived marine fauna of late Wenlock (Homerian) age, (2) a Scoyenia ichnofacies assemblage (including Beaconites and Diplichnites) characteristic of latest Silurian to Early Devonian (Lower Old Red Sandstone magnafacies) sediments in the British Isles, (3) a microflora of late Lochkovian to Pragian age, (4) a detrital palaeomagnetic remanence that pre-dates local, Acadian palaeomagnetic directions and coincides with a prominent, southerly, Late Silurian to Early Devonian excursion in the local apparent polar wander path, and (5) a mid-Devonian palaeomagnetic remanence that overprints (?)Acadian, thrust-related folding. Data presented in this study confirm previous suggestions (Allen and Crowley 1983) that the Peel Sandstone Group represents a rare example of Early Devonian sedimentation preserved on the northern margin of the former Eastern Avalonia microcontinent. Potential correlations and linkages with other Lower Old Red Sandstone successions exposed in the Anglo-Welsh Basin are developed and discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

John

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I live just a 5 minute drive from the Peel Sandstone outcrop. Looking to find out more about it. I thought that it and the Collyhurst Sandstone in the Irish Sea and in Lancashire might be the same stuff. 

So if it is named Collyhurst Sandstone in various literatures then it might be Binney instead?