@beverleylad.bsky.social
Retired after18 years at De Montfort University,enjoy cycling,walking & growing veg.Support Hull City & now volunteer geoconservationist working in Charnwood Forest Geopark. Awarded the British Empire Medal in 2014 for Services to HE & Adult Learning
🌄 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...
⭐️ Recap of 2025 - Our Biggest Stories of the Year ⭐️
👉 Throughout the year we've been installing new interpretation and information points across Charnwood Forest - sharing the Geopark's amazing heritage.
🌐 Read more about our work in Thurcaston: www.charnwoodforest.org/thurcastons-...
🦺 Our fabulous volunteers recently helped us to install an Information Hub at Billa Barra.
ℹ️ Geopark Info Hubs welcome visitors to Charnwood Forest, and encourage people to explore local heritage.
🎥 Video by John H
💧 Thornton Reservoir, in the south west of the Geopark, was constructed in 1854 to supply drinking water to the growing communities of Leicestershire.
🚶 Today it is a peaceful place to explore the trails around the water's edge.
⛰️ Explore Britain's unexpected upland and discover a landscape with roots that go back nearly 600 million years...
#CharnwoodForest🌳
🌟 Our volunteers have now supported the Geopark on more than 1000 occasions, helping us to conserve and celebrate Charnwood Forest. Check out this video to hear why they love being Geopark volunteers 😀
🌐 Want to get involved? Sign up here: www.charnwoodforest.org/volunteer/
👉 Visit our Morley Quarry Geosite, and learn about the oldest rocks in Charnwood Forest, and how they have shaped our landscape and communities.
🌐 Discover more, and plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/mor...
🥳 We are delighted to announce that we have submitted Charnwood Forest's application to become a UNESCO Global Geopark, and we have done so with the backing of Sir David Attenborough!
🌐 Read more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
Saw the Who several times in the early 70’s - the greatest group live!
So much energy.
John Major labels Brexit an ‘act of collective folly’
'Britain's enemies celebrated and our friends despaired.'
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/joh...
The perfect morning for a walk over Warren Hills, one of the gems of the @charnwoodforest.bsky.social
Great views north over Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire and views south over Leicestershire and Warwickshire.
Also some wonderful ever changing landscape colours.
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