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🌳🦌🦊 Explore Britain’s Unexpected Upland: an Aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark set in the beautiful countryside of Leicestershire Funded through National Lottery Heritage Fund
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🎥 Have you seen our new animation, telling the story of Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood through the eyes of the 562 million year old fossil, Bradgatia!?
👀 Take a look - you might learn something new about this much loved spot in the Geopark: youtu.be/qwr7dIzKVW8
🙏 Funded by Natural England
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🪨 Join Charnwood Forest Geopark this October half term and uncover the fascinating story of our local geology. Featuring free hands-on activities for all the family!
📍 Haymarket Shopping Centre
🗓️ Wed 21 & Thur 22 October, 10am – 4pm
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social👉 Our friends at the Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust are giving you another chance to see the fantastic exhibition on the history of Nanpantan, this time at Loughborough Library. 👍 The Geopark are proud to have funded the research project that supports this exhibition.
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🌳 Leave a living legacy at Chitterman Wood with the National Forest.
🌐 Learn more about how your support could help shape this area of the Charnwood Forest landscape: www.charnwoodforest.org/leave-a-livi...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🥳 In celebration of International Geodiversity Day we're releasing a new animation that brings to life the amazing 562 million year old story of Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood!
🌐Read more, and watch the video, here: www.charnwoodforest.org/new-animatio...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social👋 Ay up! I'm Bradgatia!
🌳 Join me to learn more about the amazing stories of Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood, in this new animation funded by Natural England.
🎥 Watch the full video here: youtu.be/qwr7dIzKVW8
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🎉 We are delighted to announce a new member of our Geopartner Network - Shuttlewood Clarke Foundation!
🫖 If you haven't already been, their Ulverscroft Grange tea room is well worth a visit.
🌐 Learn more about the Geopartner Network: www.charnwoodforest.org/geopartner-n...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🍰 This week's thank you event for our volunteers was made all the better by an amazing cake, recreating the seafloor of Charnwood Forest from 560 million years ago. Check out those fossils! ❤️ Thank you to our amazing volunteer and star baker Cathy!
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social❤️ Yesterday we hosted a very special event to say thank you to all our volunteers for the amazing work they have done over the past few years.
🌐 Get involved with volunteering today: www.charnwoodforest.org/volunteer/
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🇬🇧 Outside of the Athenaeum Club in London is a stone step - built at the request of the Duke of Wellington in 1830 - to make it easier to mount a horse. 🐴 The lower step is made of Mountsorrel granodiorite - quarried from Charnwood Forest🌳
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🌳 Local Learners Explore Ecology and Conservation
🌐 Read more about our recent support for a school field trip to Charnwood Forest: www.charnwoodforest.org/local-learne...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🎉 We are very excited to announce the opening of a new geosite: Mountsorrel Quarry View!
👉 Developed in partnership with Tarmac, the site features two interpretation points covering geology, quarry operations, restoration work, and biodiversity.
🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/new-geosite-...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social📜 Our friends at the Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust are starting the next stage of their Geopark-support local history project, and are looking for volunteers to help research Bardon, Stanton, and Markfield.
🌐 Find out more and get involved: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/resear...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🏗️ Stone quarried from Charnwood Forest is typically used with a rough finish: whether as kerbstones, setts, or stone for construction. 🏛️ This column from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a rare example of polished decorative Markfieldite, from Hill Hole.
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social⭐ Last year we announced our official 100 Treasures of Charnwood Forest, featuring famous sites and forgotten artefacts from across the Geopark.
🏺 See what's included and explore 600 million years of history!
🌐 Explore the Treasures: www.charnwoodforest.org/100treasures/
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🕰️ Journey back 560 million years... 🖼️ This reconstruction of what life looked like on the sea floor of Charnwood Forest during the Ediacaran period was produced for us by Martin Lisec at MightyFossils.
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🇫🇮 This week we’ve been in the Saimaa UNESCO Global Geopark in Finland, attending the European Geoparks Conference. 🌳 As we work towards UNESCO status, we updated European colleagues with two presentations on the work taking place in Charnwood Forest.
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🐮 Welcome Home Farm Heritage, Nanpantan, to our Geopartner Network! Their Farm Shop just opened and is well worth a visit!
🌐 Learn more about the Geopartner Network: www.charnwoodforest.org/geopartner-n...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🌳 Stay connected with everything that's happening in Charnwood Forest Geopark.
📰 Sign up to our monthly newsletter now: www.charnwoodforest.org/newsletter-s...
@charnwoodforest.bsky.social🍄 Fungi, including mushrooms, are an important part of the ecosystems in Charnwood Forest. 🚫 It is an offence to pick mushrooms within many of the Geopark's protected natural sites - including Beacon Hill, Bradgate Park, and The Outwoods.
