West Sussex Geological Society

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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.
Previous visits have been to the Isle of Wight, the Brecon Beacons, the Peak District.

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Friday 10^th May 2024
This is the Annual Residential Field Trip
WSGS Annual Long Weekend Field Outing
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
Annual Field Trip to Eastern Kent.
Leader Geoff Downer

Details are : Tuesday -- the coastline and cliffs of Reculver towards Herne Bay and Wednesday : Building Stones in 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
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A long weekend visit to Pembrokeshire West Wales, based in St Davids (the smallest city).
With visits to coastal exposures of the lower Palaeozoic Cambrian, Ordovician & Silurian, with a little Carboniferous thrown in for good measure.
Visits to Marloes Sands, Solva, Whitesands Bay, Abereiddy, Porth Gain 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.