AbstractThe Baginton Sand and Gravel is traced along the lower Wreake Valley as a continuous water‐laid stratum at the base of the drift succession. Its properties closely resemble those previously described from the proto‐Soar valley, namely an upward fining sequence and a composition dominated by pebbles of Triassic and Carboniferous origin. Such a provenance is consistent with the idea that the proto‐Soar once followed a route eastwards past Melton Mowbray, and that the drainage along the lower Wreake Valley has been reversed in the course of Pleistocene times. However, the slope of the sand and gravel train appears to be to the west rather than the east, and the rockhead relief is also inconsistent with an eastward‐flowing proto‐Soar. Until this enigma is resolved, it would be imprudent to use the Baginton Sand and Gravel as the basis for inter‐regional correlations. The issue is further complicated by the preservation at Brooksby of earlier interglacial or interstadial deposits whose temporal affinities rem