📍 Visit our Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake of 1893 Geosite, and discover the amazing story of how this small tremor led to an amazing scientific investigation!
🌐 Plan your trip: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...
❓ Did you know - Charnwood Forest contains more than 40 different named rock units. Many of them are named after places in the Geopark, from Shepshed to Bradgate Park!
Looking for something to tomorrow?
If so,you are welcome to join the geowanderers on a walk taking in 3 special locations in the @charnwoodforest.bsky.social
Hill Hole Quarry, Billa Barra & Altar Stones.
Meet at Hill Hole Nature Reserve Car Park, Markfield at 10:00.
The walk is about 4 miles Boots✔️
Back today working with my geoconservationist friends at Loughborough University creating a new information hub gabion for @charnwoodforest.bsky.social
Had a great time and we are always looking for more volunteers to join us in the Geopark
Within the Charnwood Geopark there are many locations to go and visit were you can enjoy, admire the excellent views and respect the environment- such a place is the Charnwood Nature Reserve
Hanging Rock, Timberwood Rocks and the Bomb Stones worth a visit👍
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social
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Just booked to see @thegrahamparker.bsky.social at Settle Victoria Hall on my birthday in September.
It is coming up to 50 years ago since I first saw Graham with the Rumour at Middlesbrough Town Hall so really looking forward to this night!
#HowlinWind
#HeatTreatment
Another walk in @charnwoodforest.bsky.social this morning.A straightforward 3.65 miles from Grace Dieu Priory back home via Grace Dieu Woods,Cademan Woods & finally HollyHayes Wood,loving the sound of the different birds singing away, even heard a woodpecker.Also came across a young muntjac deer!
Making the most of this Spring sunshine by walking a 7.6 mile route around western part of the @charnwoodforest.bsky.social
I started by skirting Bardon New Quarry,down to Charley Mill,up to Timberwood Rocks, into Charnwood Nature Reserve which includes TheBombRocks and Hanging Rock.
#feelinggood
🌄 If you're out and about in Charnwood Forest, please take care not to damage the geological outcrops.
❤️ Our Geopark contains internationally important rocks and fossils - its up to all of us to look after them.
We are very fortunate to have some great @charnwoodforest.bsky.social walks around Coalville, and today was no exception when I caught the early morning bus to Markfield, walked to the Altar Stones, then over the road to Hill Hole Quarry,next stop Billa Barra and then over Bardon Hill and home
Out for an early morning 6.5 mile walk around the western part of @charnwoodforest.bsky.social taking in Warren Hills, then to the abbey and back home via Holly Hayes Wood.
Plenty of interesting rock outcrops to investigate.
#keepinguptheexerciseregime 👍
A very wet but pleasant walk around Holly Hayes Wood in the @charnwoodforest.bsky.social this morning.
After 8 hours of non stop heavy rain the going was a bit slippery but it was good to see the stream running so high
Well done everybody👍
👍 Thank you to our fantastic volunteers who joined us on a very rainy day this week to install the new Geopark Info Hub at Morley Quarry.
🌐 Get involved and sign up to be a volunteer here: www.charnwoodforest.org/volunteer/
🔎 Want to discover more about our fantastic fossil Charnia?
🚶 Visit our Outwoods - Discovering Charnia geosite, and travel back to what life looked like 562 million years ago.
🌐 Plan your visit here: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/out...
🌄 Charnwood Forest has long been celebrated for its fantastic views.
📘 In 1790, John Throsby wrote of the summit at Hill Hole in Markfield: "...England produceth not another where the mind of man, fixed on futurity, might exercise itself with more profit."
🌍 Did you know, when the sedimentary rocks of Beacon Hill were laid down - 565 million years ago - Charnwood Forest would have been at the bottom of the sea.
Back then our region was far from where it is now, with a latitude of around 60° south of the equator!
Beverley Regal, Saturday morning minors club then maybe a good war film in the afternoon 👍
👍 Thank you to our fabulous volunteers who helped install a Geopark Information Hub in Woodhouse Eaves yesterday.
👉 The Hub also hosts the Woodhouse Eaves Earthquake Geosite, with interpretation on the tremor of 1893. Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/woo...
📖 Applications are now open for an exciting geopark-related PhD in storytelling at Loughborough University
🤔 Know anyone who might be interested?
🌐 Read more here: www.charnwoodforest.org/storytelling...
⭐️ Recap of 2025 - Our Biggest Stories of the Year ⭐️
👉 In November we submitted our application to become a UNESCO Global Geopark... with the backing of Sir David Attenborough!
🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
⭐️ Recap of 2025 - Our Biggest Stories of the Year ⭐️
👉 In September we announced our 100 Treasures list, featuring famous sites and forgotten features of Charnwood Forest's rich heritage.
🌐 Discover the 100 Treasures: www.charnwoodforest.org/forgotten-ar...
