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Annual Residential Field Trip for 2026 into 2027

This is our distance residential field trip -- generally 3 / 4 days over a long weekend, though not exclusively.
We intend to visit localities where there are places of significant geological interest.
Recent previous visits have been to South Dorset, the Isle of Wight, the Brecon Beacons, the Peak District and East Kent.

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Saturday 18^th May 2019
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip
15 Go Adventuring in Dorset (Enid B)
Leader Dr. Robert Chandler (FGS)
National Grid Reference is : SY 46438 90390
what3words Location is : bikers.chess.crawled

A 2 day visit to south Dorset, taking in Burton Bradstock, "West Bay" at Bridport, Uploaders, Horn Park Quarry and Mapperton. Overnight was in a hotel in Yeovil, then visiting Frogden, then finally to Louse Hill. Mainly in the the Inferior Oorlite of the Middle Jurassic.

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Sunday 21^st June 2020
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip

Field Trip 2020
Leader http://www.streetmap.co.uk/

There is no planned field trip for this year due to Covid-19 restrictions

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Monday 21^st June 2021
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip

Field Trip 2021

There is no planned field trip for this year due to Covid-19 restrictions

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Saturday 22^nd October 2022
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip
3 Days on Dinosaur Isle
Leader David Bone
National Grid Reference is : SZ 62115 85375
what3words Location is : desk.driveways.affair

Saturday : 22nd
Yaverland to Culver Cliff
Foreshore and cliff geology from Wealden to Chalk. Wealden is best exposed on foreshore at low tide and the rest of the succession best seen in cliff face.

Sunday : 23rd
St Catherine’s Point, viewpoint only of the geology of a major landslip.
Blackgang Viewpoint of the landscape and geology of the west coast.
Alum Bay visit to the famous coloured sands, with a good Palaeogene to Chalk succession.

Monday : 24th
Culver Down viewpoint landscape and geology of the east coast.
Whitecliff Bay visit classic site for the succession through the Palaeogene (Tertiary) to the Chalk and a cliff section for the Bembridge Limestone.

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Saturday 13^th May 2023
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip
The Scenery & Geology of the Brecon Beacons
Leader James Cresswell
National Grid Reference is : SO 21407 18089
what3words Location is : reference.kings.abode

Further details not yet available

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Friday 10^th May 2024
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip
A Field Outing to the 'Peak District' Derbyshire
Leader Martin Whitely

The Peak District is centrally located in the heart of England, easily accessible and endowed with fabulous scenery. Compact enough to walk across in a day, you can find soaring limestone ridges, bold gritstone edges, high peat-covered moorland and sylvan valleys within a stone's throw of each other. The key to this wonderful range of scenery lies in having just the right combination of old rocks beneath the surface, some hard and resistant, others weak and easily worn away. Natural agents of erosion, such as the wind, rain, ice and long-lost seas have sculpted the landscape over millions of years, aided by the hand of man in the most recent past.

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Tuesday 30^th September 2025
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip
2 days in East Kent -- Reculver & Canterbuy.
Leader Geoff Downer

Details are : Tuesday -- the coastline and cliffs of Reculver towards Herne Bay and Wednesday : the Building Stones of Canterbury City

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Friday 3^rd July 2026
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip
The Geology of West Wales
Leader Ray Cooper
National Grid Reference is : SM 75341 25330
what3words Location is : tangible.towels.dent

A long weekend visit to Pembrokeshire West Wales, based in St. David's (the smallest city).
With visits to coastal exposures of the lower Palaeozoic
Cambrian -- Porth-y-Raw to Solva
Ordovician -- Abereiddy to Porthgain
Silurian -- Marloes Sands
With a little Pre-Cambrian and Carboniferous thrown in for good measure.
Additionally visits to Newgate Beach, Whitesands Bay and others.

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Please note that on all field trips monies will be applied as follows -- WSGS Single and Joint Members are Free, Visitors are £5. (This covers Day Membership, for visitors, for our insurance).
For 'Special Event Field Trips' (led by an external non-WSGS member) the following monies will apply £3 from Single Members and £5 from Joint Members -- and be collected.

Note - additional 2026 into 2027 events will be added as they are confirmed

John Lonergan
Field Trip Secretary
West Sussex Geological Society

Mobile: 07967 165 260

We are a Local Group of the Geologists' Association (GA); therefore we can attend any of their lectures or field trips at a minimal cost.

Details of their field trips are available online at the Geologists' Association and their Magazines are sometimes available at our meetings located on the entrance table.

If you cannot find any, then please ask a committee member.

The Geologists' Association holds a combined Ancillary Policy with the Zurich Insurance Company through which the West Sussex Geological Society members are insured.

On any field trip in quarries or cliff exposures you are required to wear helmets and high visibility jackets.
Hi-Vis is always advised whatever the location.
Goggles must be worn when hammering and suitable footwear be worn at all times.

A Risk Assessment is completed before any Local or Residential Field Trip.