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A Geology Walk around the Severn Valley Country Park, Shropshire

BCGS Posted on 9 June 2024 by Dakota Johnson17 July 2024
A Geology Walk around the Severn Valley Country Park, Shropshire

12.00 – 3.00
17 August

Led by Andy Harrison. Joint event with the Geological Society WMRG. Meet at the
Severn Valley Country Park main visitor centre: WV15 6NG (GR: SO7536 8398) ready to start at 12.00. This meeting coincides with the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark's 'Geofest' – specimens and geocraft event hosted at the Severn Valley Railway Engine House (17 - 18 August) Learn about how this Carboniferous landscape has been shaped by Ice Age processes, human mining heritage and conservation. Aim to finish around 3.00. This is a chance to visit the Geofest event and see a fine collection of steam locomotives.

More Information on the Geofest can be seen within our latest newsletter.

Click here for a Google map of the location.

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Heritage quarries 18 November
Members’ Evening and Christmas Social 16 December

Programme of Events

  • 8.00, 22 September – Geological perspectives on the 'world’s largest' conventional explosion at Fauld Mine Staffordshire
  • 10.00, 19 October – 50th Anniversary Part 2: Permo-Triassic and the Ice Age in the Black Country
  • 8.00, 20 October – What Lies Beneath? Discoveries from Deep-Sea Drilling at Santorini Volcano (IODP Expedition 398)
  • 8.00, 17 November – Medicine and Geology - an exploration
  • 7.30, 15 December – Members' Evening and Christmas Social
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