Field Trips for 2024
Please let us know if you have particular requests or would be interested to lead a fieldtrip or happy to lend a hand with the organisation of fieldtrips. We had excellent attendance at all the trips last year and we are more limited by the ability to organise than by potential participants!
Email: royalgeolsoccornwall@gmail.com
For all field trips please register by email to Beatrice Kerno (beatricekerno@yahoo.co.uk) with names of attendees, contact telephone numbers and an emergency contact number for each participant.
Saturday 18th May to Sunday 19th May (or join for just one day) - Fieldtrip – in the footsteps of William Smith, in the countryside south-east of Bath
Leader: Professor Alan Butcher, Alan Butcher - Chief Scientist & Technical Director - Hafren Scientific Limited | LinkedIn who lives in the same area near Bath where William Smith lived and worked and has researched the local geology and history associated with one of geology’s most famous characters.
Directions to meeting points: tbc for registered participants*
Times: Start at 11.00 am Saturday 18 May and finish approximately at 4.30 pm on Sunday 19 May. Join for just one day if that suits.
Aim: to explore some of the geology that inspired and helped William Smith to make his famous geological map of the Britain, the first detailed geology map of any country, and visit some of the historical locations in the area where he lived near Bath.
Food: bring packed lunch
What to wear: be ready with warm weatherproof clothing, walking boots or shoes and sunhat/sun cream. Hard hats tbc.
Participants with all levels of geological knowledge are welcome. Under 16's need to be accompanied by an adult on the day trips and there are no arrangements to supervise young people for the overnight stay so over 18's only for that please.
RGSC members – free, non-members - £5 per day, please bring in a sealed labelled envelope. (Why not join, membership is just £15 BECOME A MEMBER OF THE RGSC),
*Please register by email to Beatrice Kerno (beatricekerno@yahoo.co.uk) with names of attendees, contact telephone numbers and an emergency contact number for each participant.
Accommodation: please make your own arrangements in the Bath, Bradford on Avon, Tucking Mill (nr Bath), Laverton, Norton St Philip, Iford Manor (Iford) area. Accommodation seems to be booked up and expensive already so make arrangements as soon as you can! If people are interested we will see if we can make a group booking for dinner on Saturday, possibly at the Moonraker Hotel, Bradford on Avon. Here are some suggestions of local hotels that had rooms at the beginning of May:
The Barge Inn £104 (1 room left booking.com)
The Westwoods £117 (2 rooms left)
The Moonraker Hotel £125 (5 rooms left)
Premier Inn Trowbridge £118