Field Trips

Field Trips
N.B. Field trips are currently suspended due to coronavirus restrictions
Check this page for updates.
Open to all members and visitors on request.
A small attendance fee (to cover administration costs/leaders’ expenses) is charged.
Sign-up’ sheets and further information are provided at meetings.
Please read notice below

Date	Destination
20 March - POSTPONED	Maidstone Museum
26-29 June - TO BE CONFIRMED	Black Country GeoPark
25-28 September - TO BE CONFIRMED	Dorset (around Kimmeridge and Purbeck)
Date to be confirmed	Conservation Day at Harefield Pit

Previous Field Trips

Triassic cliff, Watchett, North Somerset

2019	Destination
13-16/09/19	Jurassic Coast of South Wales, based at Bridgend
17-20/05/19	Somerset Coast based at Minehead (Devonian, Triassic and Jurassic rocks)
30/03/2019	Highcliffe and Barton-on-Sea (Eocene fossils, Pleistocene deposits)

2018	Column 2
23/11/18	Behind the scenes at the Oxford Museum of Natural History
12-15/10/18	Torbay Geopark
29/09/18	Lost Waterways and Springs of Islington
22/07/18	Hern Bay and Thanet Coast
30/06/18	Maidstone museum fossil exhibition
10/06/18	Sussex Coast
16-23/04/18	Belgium

2017	Field Trips
07-08/10/17	Portishead, North Somerset
15-17/09/17	Dorset including Steve Etches Kimmeridge Fossils
14-16/07/17	Charnwood Forest
01/07/17	British Geological Survey Open Day at Keyworth
17/06/17	Building Stones of Canary Wharf
13/05/17	Gilbert's Pit
08/04/17	Pulhamite exhibition at Lowewood Museum in Hoddesdon, Hertforshire
18/03/17	Volcano exhibition in the Bodleian’s Weston library in Oxford

Canary Wharf

Gilbert's Pit SSSI, near Charlton, East London

chalk and flint, Eastbourne, near Beachy Head

2016	Field Trips
21/08/16	Following the River Tyburn
July-Aug/16	GERMANY Idar Oberstein - Centre for Gem Stones
15-17/07/16	Charnwood Forest, Leicester Museum, Mountsorrel Heritage Centre
18/06/16	Brownsea Island (could stay in Poole area on Saturday Night)
22/05/16	London Building Stones - Victoria Embankment
17/04/16	Harwich and Wrabness, Essex
19/03/16	Eastbourne - Chalk of Beachy Head
27/02/16	Ice Age Ilford exhibition

2015	Field Trips
16-19/Oct/15	Sidmouth Science Week
15/08/2015	Riddlesdown Quarry
9-14/7/15	Cornwall
27-31/3/15	Scarborough
25/1/2015	Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton

Sign-up’ sheets and further information are provided at meetings.

Please Note: Members attending field trips are reminded that they accept full personal responsibility for their own safety, and that of their personal possessions, whilst on the field trip; also that they are fit to undertake the trip. (If you have a mobility problem, cardiovascular disease or other serious infirmity you must declare it before joining in the field trip; however it may not prevent you from participating.)