Charnwood Forest Geopark
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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
Funded through National Lottery Heritage Fund
👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
⚠️ The Met Office have issued an Amber warning for rain, covering most of Charnwood Forest.
⏰ The Amber warning runs from 12:00-23:59 Friday. This is in addition to the Yellow Warning from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
⏰ The Amber warning runs from 12:00-23:59 Friday. This is in addition to the Yellow Warning from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
⚠️ The Met Office have issued an Amber warning for rain, covering most of Charnwood Forest.
⏰ The Amber warning runs from 12:00-23:59 Friday. This is in addition to the Yellow Warning from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
⏰ The Amber warning runs from 12:00-23:59 Friday. This is in addition to the Yellow Warning from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
🖼️ Prominent Scottish art collector and landscape watercolourist, James Orrock, painted this scene of Bradgate Park's rocky crags, in 1882.
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🖼️ Prominent Scottish art collector and landscape watercolourist, James Orrock, painted this scene of Bradgate Park's rocky crags, in 1882.
⚠️ The Met Office have issued a Yellow Warning for rain.
⏰ The warning includes all of Charnwood Forest Geopark, and runs from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
⏰ The warning includes all of Charnwood Forest Geopark, and runs from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
⚠️ The Met Office have issued a Yellow Warning for rain.
⏰ The warning includes all of Charnwood Forest Geopark, and runs from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
⏰ The warning includes all of Charnwood Forest Geopark, and runs from 06:00 Friday - 06:00 Saturday.
🌐 Read more on the Met Office website: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/warnings-and...
Beacon Hill: beautiful at all times of year
📷 Dave Howard
📷 Dave Howard
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Beacon Hill: beautiful at all times of year
📷 Dave Howard
📷 Dave Howard
Today at 11am the nation will pause to honour all those who gave their lives in the service of freedom.
👉 Learn more about Charnwood Forest's connection to WWI at our Broom Leys House Geosite, which was used as a hospital for injured soldiers.
🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/bro...
👉 Learn more about Charnwood Forest's connection to WWI at our Broom Leys House Geosite, which was used as a hospital for injured soldiers.
🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/bro...
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Today at 11am the nation will pause to honour all those who gave their lives in the service of freedom.
👉 Learn more about Charnwood Forest's connection to WWI at our Broom Leys House Geosite, which was used as a hospital for injured soldiers.
🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/bro...
👉 Learn more about Charnwood Forest's connection to WWI at our Broom Leys House Geosite, which was used as a hospital for injured soldiers.
🌐 Read more: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/bro...
🔎 The Geopark and our partners are looking for 2 researchers to join exciting projects, funded by the Collaboratory Research Hub:
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 Deadline approaching! More info here: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 Deadline approaching! More info here: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🔎 The Geopark and our partners are looking for 2 researchers to join exciting projects, funded by the Collaboratory Research Hub:
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 Deadline approaching! More info here: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 Deadline approaching! More info here: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
👍 Excellent story on the BBC about Charnwood Forest's newest fossil species - Charnia brasieri
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bradgate Park fossil named by researchers
Experts say the species lived on the seafloor around 560 million years ago.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
👍 Excellent story on the BBC about Charnwood Forest's newest fossil species - Charnia brasieri
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
💜 Check out that colour!
🍄 Amethyst Deceiver mushroom from Charnwood Forest.
📷 Barry Ingram
🍄 Amethyst Deceiver mushroom from Charnwood Forest.
📷 Barry Ingram
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
💜 Check out that colour!
🍄 Amethyst Deceiver mushroom from Charnwood Forest.
📷 Barry Ingram
🍄 Amethyst Deceiver mushroom from Charnwood Forest.
📷 Barry Ingram
We have amazing minerals in Charnwood Forest!
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We have amazing minerals in Charnwood Forest!
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
🔷 Azurite
🟩 Malachite
They both contain copper, but with vividly different colours!
📍 New Cliffe Hill Quarry
🏛 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
🥳 NEW FOSSIL! Researchers from Canada have named a new species of fossil from the 560 million year old rocks of Charnwood Forest!
🌟 Its called Charnia brasieri, shaped like a frond, and could grow to a metre long.
🌐 Read more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/researchers-...
🌟 Its called Charnia brasieri, shaped like a frond, and could grow to a metre long.
🌐 Read more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/researchers-...
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🥳 NEW FOSSIL! Researchers from Canada have named a new species of fossil from the 560 million year old rocks of Charnwood Forest!
🌟 Its called Charnia brasieri, shaped like a frond, and could grow to a metre long.
🌐 Read more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/researchers-...
🌟 Its called Charnia brasieri, shaped like a frond, and could grow to a metre long.
🌐 Read more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/researchers-...
👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
🎃 Happy Halloween, from the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🎃 Happy Halloween, from the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
🕷️ Charnwood Forest is one of the only places in the UK that you can find the spider Mastigusa diversa. Unsurprisingly, it's also known as the Charnwood Spider!
🧑🤝🧑 Our Geopartner Network brings together organisations across Charnwood Forest that want to celebrate their area and support the Geopark.
🌐 Find out more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/geopartner-n...
🌐 Find out more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/geopartner-n...
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🧑🤝🧑 Our Geopartner Network brings together organisations across Charnwood Forest that want to celebrate their area and support the Geopark.
🌐 Find out more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/geopartner-n...
🌐 Find out more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/geopartner-n...
As we build Charnwood Forest Geopark, we're proud to be supporting local businesses:
🌳 Our Geopartner signs are made by In The Shed Woodcraft
🟫 Interpretation gabions by Markfield's MP Steel
🎨 Interpretation panel design by Loughborough's Crayfish Design
🐝 Honey gifts by Temple Bees
🌳 Our Geopartner signs are made by In The Shed Woodcraft
🟫 Interpretation gabions by Markfield's MP Steel
🎨 Interpretation panel design by Loughborough's Crayfish Design
🐝 Honey gifts by Temple Bees
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
As we build Charnwood Forest Geopark, we're proud to be supporting local businesses:
🌳 Our Geopartner signs are made by In The Shed Woodcraft
🟫 Interpretation gabions by Markfield's MP Steel
🎨 Interpretation panel design by Loughborough's Crayfish Design
🐝 Honey gifts by Temple Bees
🌳 Our Geopartner signs are made by In The Shed Woodcraft
🟫 Interpretation gabions by Markfield's MP Steel
🎨 Interpretation panel design by Loughborough's Crayfish Design
🐝 Honey gifts by Temple Bees
🌳 Are you a landowner in Charnwood Forest with geological outcrops on your land?
❓ Not sure if they might be important or need conserving?
🌐 Get in touch - we provide free advice to landowners across the Geopark area. Contact us through our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/contact/
❓ Not sure if they might be important or need conserving?
🌐 Get in touch - we provide free advice to landowners across the Geopark area. Contact us through our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/contact/
October 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🌳 Are you a landowner in Charnwood Forest with geological outcrops on your land?
❓ Not sure if they might be important or need conserving?
🌐 Get in touch - we provide free advice to landowners across the Geopark area. Contact us through our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/contact/
❓ Not sure if they might be important or need conserving?
🌐 Get in touch - we provide free advice to landowners across the Geopark area. Contact us through our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/contact/
🍄 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.
🚫 It is an offence to pick mushrooms within many of the Geopark's protected natural sites - including Beacon Hill, Bradgate Park, and The Outwoods.
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🍄 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.
🚫 It is an offence to pick mushrooms within many of the Geopark's protected natural sites - including Beacon Hill, Bradgate Park, and The Outwoods.
💷 Fun with Finance in the Forest 💷
A free workshop to support community groups and their treasurers, including best practice, recruitment, and risk management.
📅 Thu 30 October, 10am-3pm
🌐 Book your place and learn here: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/fun-wi...
A free workshop to support community groups and their treasurers, including best practice, recruitment, and risk management.
📅 Thu 30 October, 10am-3pm
🌐 Book your place and learn here: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/fun-wi...
October 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
💷 Fun with Finance in the Forest 💷
A free workshop to support community groups and their treasurers, including best practice, recruitment, and risk management.
📅 Thu 30 October, 10am-3pm
🌐 Book your place and learn here: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/fun-wi...
A free workshop to support community groups and their treasurers, including best practice, recruitment, and risk management.
📅 Thu 30 October, 10am-3pm
🌐 Book your place and learn here: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/fun-wi...
🔶 We've got a temporary exhibition at Mountsorrel Museum, telling the story of tiles and tiles making in Charnwood Forest, featuring a new 'floor' of tiles commissioned by the Geopark from artist Karen Slade.
🌐 Plan Your Visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/tempor...
🌐 Plan Your Visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/tempor...
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🔶 We've got a temporary exhibition at Mountsorrel Museum, telling the story of tiles and tiles making in Charnwood Forest, featuring a new 'floor' of tiles commissioned by the Geopark from artist Karen Slade.
🌐 Plan Your Visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/tempor...
🌐 Plan Your Visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/tempor...
🙋 Join the team!
🌳 From geological conservation, to supporting our education projects and events - there are many ways to be Geopark Volunteer.
🌐 Sign up and discover more, on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/volunteer/
🌳 From geological conservation, to supporting our education projects and events - there are many ways to be Geopark Volunteer.
🌐 Sign up and discover more, on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/volunteer/
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🙋 Join the team!
🌳 From geological conservation, to supporting our education projects and events - there are many ways to be Geopark Volunteer.
🌐 Sign up and discover more, on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/volunteer/
🌳 From geological conservation, to supporting our education projects and events - there are many ways to be Geopark Volunteer.
🌐 Sign up and discover more, on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/volunteer/
👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
👩🏫 Are you involved in a school or educational group in and around Charnwood Forest?
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
📆 Join us on Nov 20th for our next Education Hub Event, with networking and workshops on Geopark resources.
🌐 Learn more and book your place: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/autumn...
🔎 The Geopark and our partners are looking for 2 researchers to join exciting projects, funded by the Collaboratory Research Hub:
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 More info on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 More info on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🔎 The Geopark and our partners are looking for 2 researchers to join exciting projects, funded by the Collaboratory Research Hub:
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 More info on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
🌳 PhD on nature & wellbeing
🦖 Research Placement on public understanding of fossils
🌐 More info on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/collaborator...
🌱 On this day in 1876, Charnwood Forest farmers did very well at the Loughborough Ploughing Match!
N. Briscoe of Broombriggs won 'the best three acres of Swedish turnips' and B. Everard of Bardon Hill for the 'best three acres of mangold wurzel'!
N. Briscoe of Broombriggs won 'the best three acres of Swedish turnips' and B. Everard of Bardon Hill for the 'best three acres of mangold wurzel'!
October 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🌱 On this day in 1876, Charnwood Forest farmers did very well at the Loughborough Ploughing Match!
N. Briscoe of Broombriggs won 'the best three acres of Swedish turnips' and B. Everard of Bardon Hill for the 'best three acres of mangold wurzel'!
N. Briscoe of Broombriggs won 'the best three acres of Swedish turnips' and B. Everard of Bardon Hill for the 'best three acres of mangold wurzel'!
🌍 Two years ago, we hosted the ProGEO international geological conference, bringing more than 120 delegates from around the world to Leicestershire - and an economic impact to the local economy of c.£100k.
🌐 Read more on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
🌐 Read more on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🌍 Two years ago, we hosted the ProGEO international geological conference, bringing more than 120 delegates from around the world to Leicestershire - and an economic impact to the local economy of c.£100k.
🌐 Read more on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
🌐 Read more on our website:
www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...
🌳 Today we’re helping to host the Midlands Park Forum, with visitors from across the region joining us to learn more about the work of the Geopark.
October 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🌳 Today we’re helping to host the Midlands Park Forum, with visitors from across the region joining us to learn more about the work of the Geopark.