[4] The Sherwood Sandstone Group is present in a number of sedimentary basins throughout the United Kingdom, where regional subsidence during the Triassic allowed sediments to accumulate and be preserved.

The Sherwood Sandstone Group is found as bedrock in the Vale of Eden, on the coast of Cumbria, in Lancashire and in Cheshire.

[6] Cities which are built on the Sherwood Sandstone include Preston, Lancashire, Carlisle, Manchester, Liverpool, and Chester.

[8]In Northern Ireland, the Sherwood Sandstone is relatively widespread, though much of the unit is buried beneath younger rocks.

[7] In northeastern England, the Sherwood Sandstone Group extends in a roughly north-south band running parallel to the Pennines, from Stockton-on-Tees south through York, into Nottinghamshire and then the English Midlands, though is largely concealed by superficial sediments.

[10] The Sherwood Sandstone occurs widely in the Midlands, particularly to the western side of the region in Shropshire and Staffordshire.

[7] Southwards, the Sherwood Sandstone is continuously present beneath Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Hampshire, and beyond there through Somerset, Dorset and Devon, however outcrops are very limited and it is largely buried under younger sedimentary rocks.

[8] The only substantial outcrop in this area is the cliff section from Budleigh Salterton[11] to Ladram Bay and Sidmouth[12] on the coast of East Devon.

[14] Faulted blocks of these rocks are largely responsible for the prominent west facing escarpment of the Mid Cheshire Ridge and the Helsby Sandstone is exposed in numerous localities here, southwards from Runcorn through Helsby and Frodsham to Utkinton, spectacularly at the outlier of Beeston Castle hill and lastly within the Peckforton Hills.

[17] The Kinnerton Sandstone Formation (named from the twin villages of Higher and Lower Kinnerton on the England/Wales border west of Chester) is a sequence which ranges from 0m to over 150m thickness of largely aeolian sandstones of early Triassic age.

[28] The group is represented in Somerset and east Devon by the Otterton Sandstone and the underlying Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds formations,.