Interpretation Panels

WGCG has designed and erected interpretation panels which describe the local geology in an accessible way to the public at these locations:

Ryton Pools, Dunsmore, Geology Interpretation Board


Ryton Pools Interpretation Panel

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The WGCG Ryton Pools leaflet ‘Exploring the Landscape Trail’ is available at the Ryton Pools Country Park Visitor Centre.
WGCG’s older Ice Age leaflets are no longer in print but can be seen as PDFs in the Leaflets section on this website, as can the ‘Exploring The Landscape Trail’ leaflet.

Location: Ryton Pools Country Park Ryton Road, Coventry, Warwickshire CV8 3BH


WGCG Geology Wall Interpretation Panel at Brandon Marsh


Geology Wall, Brandon Marsh Interpretation Panel

Geo Wall at Brandon Marsh Interpretation Panel info.

Lots more info and photos at: The Rocks of Warwickshire as represented in the Geology Wall at Brandon Marsh
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See: Leaflet: on the Brandon Geo Wall: ‘Every Stone Tells a Story
Location: Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Brandon Ln, Coventry CV3 3GW


WGCG Geology Wall Timeline Panel at Brandon Marsh


Geology Wall, Brandon Marsh TimeLine

Geo Wall at Brandon Marsh Time Line info.

Lots more info and photos at: The Rocks of Warwickshire as represented in the Geology Wall at Brandon Marsh
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See: Leaflet: on the Brandon Geo Wall: ‘Every Stone Tells a Story
Location: Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Brandon Ln, Coventry CV3 3GW



Ufton Fields SSSI

Ufton Fields is a SSSI and managed by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust (WWT). Their panel with SSSI information and interpretation is installed at Ufton Fields and shown here, courtesy of WWT. For Ufton Fields, the WWT website has Visitor Information and Wild Walks

WGCG has extensive and very interesting geological information on Ufton Fields. Please see at: WGCG Conservation at Ufton Fields  The focus of the geological interest is an outcrop of unquarried White Lias Limestone (Langport Member) which warrants conservation and designation as a Local Geological Site (LGS) because there are now very few such exposures, accessible or otherwise, in Warwickshire.

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Location: Ufton Fields, Leamington Spa CV33 9NY – OS Map Reference SP 378 615


WGCG Kenilworth Cutting Interpretation Panel


Kenilworth Cutting

Kenilworth Cutting Interpretation Panel info. More to follow.

See more information on: Kenilworth Cutting

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Burton Dassett Hills Country Park

Conservation Committee has started on a project to design three interpretation boards for the Burton Dassett Hills Country Park.  The first is now designed and was erected with the co-operation of the WCC Ranger for the hills.  The themes  for the other two boards are “The Park and the wider geology and landscape” (essentially what you can see from the Hills) and “The iron mining industry”.  The Burton Dassett Hills are Local Geological Site 33 and information can be found in the LGS section of our website.

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“Parkridge”


Brueton Park, Solihull

The Group was funded by the Local Heritage Initiative Fund to produce geological interpretation boards and displays of the geology of Warwickshire at the Parkridge Centre in conjunction with the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

Location: Parkridge Centre, Brueton Park Solihull, Warwickshire B91 3HW.



“Wolston”

Wolston Village Green

As part of an Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund supported project, an interpretation board has been installed on Wolston Village Green. This illustrates the environment that existed in the area about 500,000 years ago. See an article from our 2007 spring newsletter for more about this panel.

Location: Main Street, Wolston CV8 3HJ.

See also: Wikipedia page: Frederick William Shotton

See Photos of 25 April 2020 taken and supplied by Larry Wooding



“Brandon

Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve

As part of an Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund supported project, an interpretation board has been installed at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve on a wall in the courtyard.

Location: Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve Coventry, Warwickshire CV8 3ET.



“Mancetter

Purley/Mancetter Quarry

Interpretation Panels had been installed at four locations on the site. See an article from our 2007 spring newsletter for more about this location. Sadly these are no longer accessible to the public.

Location: Purley/Mancetter Quarry Quarry Lane Mancetter, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 2RF.


Bubbenhall Woodland and Meadow

These boards are erected at the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust’s reserves at Bubbenhall Woodland and Meadow.  The geological content was produced by WGCG.  The Meadow is restored land on the site of a sand and gravel quarry, which is a Local Geological Site – Wood Farm Quarry LGS 90.

Geology

When quarrying commenced at wood Farm in 2001 clues about Warwickshire Ice Age past were revealed.

The sands and gravels were deposited by a powerful river during a relatively warm period in the Ice Age.

Its wide valley extends from Bubbenhall to Baginton. Underneath the gravels, channels of an ancient river bed contain fossil evidence of temperature interglacial fauna. Fossil remains include the neck bone, teeth and tusk fragments of a straight-tusked elephant.

In 2004, a Lower Palaeolithic hand axe was discovered at Wood Farm that confirmed our distance ancestors lived in this area more than 350,000 years ago – possibly Heidelberg Man (homo heidelbergensis)

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Last Updated on 14 May 2021