Upcoming ex-Aber Geology Field Trip 2024

EX-ABER GEOLOGY REUNION 2024
Friday 20th September to Sunday/Monday 22nd / 23rd September

ACCOMMODATION
PEN-Y-DYFFREN HOTEL – Good hotel, good food.
Tel 01691 653 700
E-mail: stay@peny.co.uk
Pen-y-Dyffryn Country Hotel,
Rhydycroesau,
Oswestry
Shropshire,
England,
SY10 7JD

BOOK DIRECTLY WTH HOTEL; MENTION THAT YOU ARE PART OF DENIS BATES’ PARTY.

PROVISIONAL LOCATIONS
visiting abandoned quarries / nature reserves.

1. LLANYMYNECH
Llanymynech Rocks Nature reserve – great outcrop of Carboniferous limestone.
Underhill Lane off the A483
Llanymynech
Shropshire
SY10 9RB

Carboniferous Limestone

Hoffman Kiln (industrial archaeology heritage museum).
Llanymynech SY22 6JY

Ordovician (if I can find it again !!) visited by Charles Darwin when he explored the geology of the area.

2. THE ERCALL, Wrekin SSSI.
Cambrian Wrekin Quartzite rests unconformably on Pre-Cambrian Rhyolite intruded by a Granophyre.
Just before and opposite the Buckatree Hotel in Little Wenlock
Wellington
Shropshire
TF6 5AL

3. NESCLIFFE – Cliff Countryside heritage site
Triassic Sherwood sandstone.
Nescliffe,
Shrewsbury
SY4 1BY

Triassic desert sandstones

4. DOLGOCH QUARRY.
Carboniferous limestone
West of Llynclys crossroads
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY10 8LN
OS Map Reference SJ277247

Carboniferous Limestone