EMGS and WGCG Joint Residential Field Trip – Nick Chidlaw

EMGS: Residential Field Trip: Friday 11th – Sunday13th September 2026 Conducted Jointly with WGCG: Led by Nick Chidlaw
‘South Malverns to Cleeve Hill’

Itinerary (provisional):

Friday p.m c.2 – 5 p.m.
Circular walk viewing Gullet Quarry, along crest of Swinyard Hill, to Hangman’s Hill
to see aspects of the late Pre-Cambrian Malverns Complex & Warren House Volcanics
and contrasting views of the Welsh Borderland and Severn Valley / Cotswold landscapes
(subject to weather conditions). (approx. 3-4km.)

Saturday a.m. p.m. (timings t.b.c)
Visit two contrasting Severn River cliff exposures in the Severn Vale
late Triassic at Garden Cliff, Westbury (approx. 1km.)
early Jurassic at Hock Cliff (approx. 2km.)
picnic lunch taken en route (details t.b.c.)

Sunday 9:30 a.m. finish about 3:30 p.m.
Traverse of Cleeve Hill to examine mid-Jurassic limestones (approx. 3km.)
This will involve transferring all participants using some vehicles from our assembly point
finish about at the golf clubhouse (north side of hill) to a car park by the radio masts on Cleeve Common
(south side of hill)
picnic lunch en route with further use of the clubhouse facilities nearby

Participants will be expected to be suitably prepared for whatever weather conditions arise, and sufficiently mobile / fit for the walking involved……mostly on rough tracks and footpaths. In wet conditions Hock Cliff can get very muddy; Garden Cliff and the Malverns less so. Malvern terrain includes some steep sections.

Participants will also be required to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.