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Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th May: Fossil Day Wednesday 7th June: Finding people in the Archives GeoFest 2017 Make your own fossil and have a look at some real fossils Workshop to help you search through the catalogues and with a chance to chat to experts. indexes of the Archives. Times: 10:30am – 4pm at Bewdley Museum, Load Street, 2-4pm, Worcs Archive & Archaeology, The Hive, Worcester What's On Bewdley, DY12 2AE Cost: £6, booking required 01905 766352

Saturday 27th May – Sunday 4th June: Self Led Thursday 8th June: Alpaca Shearing Camouflage Trail A chance to see the Alpacas being sheared. Enjoy this self-led trail around the woods of the park. Times: 8am at Cob House, Wichenford Times: Throughout the day at Severn Valley Country Park, Cost: Free Chapel Lane, Alveley, WV15 6NG Cost: Free Thursday 8th & Monday 12th June: Guided Walk: Stanmore & Claverley (9 miles) Saturday 27th May: Far From the Madding Crowd Meeting at the site of RAF Bridgnorth, journey along country Enjoy theatre in the visitor centre. paths to the village of Claverley. Return to Stanmore past Times: 7:30pm at Severn Valley Country Park, Chapel Lane, Farmcote Hall. Please note that this walk starts and finishes Alveley, Bridgnorth WV15 6NG Stanmore Country Park, Bridgnorth and NOT Severn Valley Cost: £10, please call 01746 781192. Country Park. Organised by SVCP Wednesday 31st May: Half Term fun – Severn Valley Times: 9:30am-4:30pm, starting at Stanmore Country Park, Survival Skills Kerry Ave, Stanmore WV15 5HN Learn how to survive in the woods of the park. Booking essential, call 01746 781192. Adults £3.50 Children Times: 10am – 12:30pm at Severn Valley Country Park £2.00 27th May to 2nd Sept Thursday 1st June: Face Painting with Artistic Tinker Saturday 10th June: Vintage Vehicle Day Guided Walks, Children’s Activities, Tours, A chance for the children to get their face painted A chance to see Vintage cars and join in with have a go Exhibitions, Workshops and much more - Times: 11am – 2pm at Cob House, Wichenford activities. highlighting and celebrating Cost: Free Entry but fee applies for face painting Times: 10am at Cob House, Wichenford the Abberley and Geopark Saturday 3rd June: Segway Training Sunday 11th June: Severn Valley Trail Run 5km & 10km A A chance to have a go on a Segway with expert help. Times: stunning off-road route through woodlands, meadows and Events run & hosted by members of 11am – 2pm at Cob House, Wichenford, along the banks of the . Starting from Severn the Geopark Forum Cost: £5, more info at www.segstreme.co.uk Valley Country Park Visitors Centre. Fantastic scenery, tough off road route and some great prizes to be won www.Geopark.org.uk.geopark.org.uk Saturday 3rd June: Scenic Evening Ride on Severn Valley Fully marshalled, with chip timing provided by StuWeb. Railway Souvenir medal for all finishers and a teashop serving drinks General enquires Enjoy fish and chips while taking in the countryside. Times: and homemade cakes. [email protected] 7pm at (Kidderminster) Cost: Various You can enter online at http://www.stuweb.co.uk/ train fares event/2533. Various costs Times: 10am-5:30pm at SVCP Mon 5th to Sun 11th June: Rocks and landscape along the GeoFest 201 is sponsored by 7 Severn Valley Railway Learn more about the geology during your trip. Pick up a free guide at Kidderminster Station and discover a world millions of years old, from your carriage seat. Cost - various train fares www.svr.co.uk

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Charity Car Boots at the Cob House Saturday 24th – Sunday 25th June: Step Back to the Tuesday 27th June: Junior Angling 1 June; 27 July; 3, 17, 24, 31 August 1940s A chance for the children to have a go and learn the art of See characters of the past as well as the stations angling. The pitch fee is £5 per car and is donated to a dressed for the 1940s with costumed re-enactors on our Times: 10am at Cob House, Wichenford, Worcester nominated charity. No food or drink sales stations and in our trains helping to tell the wartime Cost: £15 per person. Book at 01886 888517. Name, Date Set up: From 7.30am Start: 10am Cob House Country story! of Birth, Telephone Number and Postcode required for each person. Park, Wichenford, Worcester WR6 6YE 01886 888 517 Times: Set timetable at Severn Valley Railway Costs: Various train fares Sunday 11th June: Walk – Chase & Penhard: The South Saturday 15th July: Peep Behind the Scenes at Severn Valley Railway Hills (6-7 miles) Saturday 24th June: Huntley Heritage Trail Take a look around parts of the stations that visitors don’t The hills bordering Ross mark a transition from Devonian to Meet at Huntley Church for a chance to go and explore normally get to see. Carboniferous geology. This walk also features an Iron Age the Quarry. Times: Set Timetable at Severn Valley Railway hill-fort, a mediaeval castle site, and an abandoned railway Organised by Geology Trust Cost: Various Prices www.svr.co.uk line. Times: 2pm Meeting at Huntley Church A Woolhope Naturalists' Club event Free, book through 01452 864438 Monday 17th July - Guided Walk: Trimpley reservoir & Meet Town & Country Trail car park. – GR: SO 597232 Eymore Wood (8 miles) Times: 10:30am-4:00pm Enjoy a walk along the river to Trimpley and on through Free, no booking needed Eymore Wood. Returning along the top of the valley with Sunday 2nd & Thursday 27th July, and Thursday 10th good views of the countryside. Tuesday 13th June: Ice Age Animals in the Worcestershire August: Rock & Fossil Hunt 9:30am-4pm at Severn Valley Country Park Collections Booking essential, please call 01746 781192. Adults Lunch time talk on what Worcestershire archaeology tells us Join the rangers and local experts from ‘Geologists in the £3.50 Children £2.00. Geopark’ and try to find your own carboniferous fossil! about this fascinating period. Times: 1:00-1:30pm at Worcester Museum & Art Gallery Saturday 22nd July – Sunday 24th September: This family friendly 2 hour session starts at the visitor £2, book from Museum or 01905 25371 Stunning Landscapes from Space - centre with a brief introduction to the fascinating geology of the park and what you might expect to find during the how satellites see the Geopark Wednesday 14th June: Textile Decoration, Fashion & Style fossil hunt. Space satellites now provide exquisite photographic detail Talk by Georgia Jacobs, A look at how textile designs reflect of the Earth’s surface. This exhibition shows your local landscape of hills, rivers and rocks as never seen before. changes in the fashion industry, along with textile samples ‘Geologists in the Geopark’ will be on hand to share their showing pattern designs, printing techniques and methods of knowledge as you dig in to an exposed area of coal spoil to textile decoration. see what you can discover. At the end of the session, Lines in the Landscape exhibition Times: 7pm at Bewdley Museum return to the visitor centre to examine your finds under a Lines in the Landscape textile project uses images of the Booking required, £5, 0845 6077819 microscope. Earth from space, aerial photographs and landscape photographs as sources of inspiration for art-based textiles Sat 17th June: Wild in the Severn Valley – Family Fun Day The fossils can be found on the surface or just underneath to display during Geofest 2017, along with workshops and There will be Minibeast hunting in our wildflower meadows; it so please bring a small trowel and a plastic tub with you demonstrations for the visiting public. Meet the Owls; Forage for wild food; Pond dipping in our to aid your fossil hunting. You will be able to take home spring-fed pond; Wildflower walks; Vintage tractors; Bird your finds along with an identification sheet. Times: 10:30am – 4pm at Bewdley Museum ringing demonstrations; Have a go at textile arts and crafts; Hay bale throwing contest. Have a go at scything; live music; Times: 1:30-3:30pm at SVCP Real ale bar; Wildlife and craft stands; Bee keeping display. Sunday 23rd July - Geology/textile demonstration Please call 01746 781 192 to book your place. Under 8s Geopark display with rock and fossil specimens. Linked to Lines in the Landscape exhibition with artist must be accompanied by an adult. £3.50 per child. Times: 11am-4pm at SVCP Geogia Jacobs Cost: Free, small charge for some activities Times: 12-3pm Bewdley Museum Bewdley Museum: ‘Holiday Craft Activities’ Monday to Friday 12 noon - 3pm. £4 per child.

GeoFest July/August 2017 Throughout the Year Trails for every taste this Junior Angling Centres to visit in the Geopark are summer 27th July; 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th August Angling taster sessions running for 2 hours each session. • Bewdley Museum, • Try out the new Rock and Fossil Detective Trails for Starting at 10am and 12.30pm. All tackle and bait will be • Bodenham Arboretum some family fun. You will find it on certain days at provided, please wear suitable outdoor clothing as this • Cob House Country Park Severn Valley Country Park, Bewdley Museum, takes place in all weathers! Bodenham Arboretum and Cob House Country Park. Cost: £15 per person. Book at 01886 888517. Name, date of • County Museum at Hartlebury • Forestry Commission - Wyre Forest, birth, telephone number and postcode required for each • Self lead geology trails around Severn Valley • Land of the Living Dinosaurs, West Midlands person. Railway, Severn Valley Country Park, Bewdley Safari Park Museum, Bodenham Arboretum and Wyre Forest. Pick • Malvern Hills GeoCentre up a leaflet at each location or download them free Pampered Pony Rides • Severn Valley Country Park 28th July; 9th & 22nd August from the website. A chance for the children to have a pony ride. • Severn Valley Railway Times: 11am – 2pm at Cob House, Wichenford • Worcester Cathedral • Over slightly longer distances why not use the free Cost: Free Entry but fee applies for pony ride • Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service leaflets covering trails around Stourport, Alveley, Bridgnorth and Ledbury. Download them from the (The Hive) website www.geopark.org.uk. Saturday 29th July 2017 Experimenting with Textile Art • Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum - A Family Crafts Day • The Geopark Way official guidebook is sold at the Come along and join us in a Textile Art experimental craft Geopark Visitor Information Points provide Malvern Hills GeoCentre, Bewdley Museum, Severn day, with demonstrations of fabric painting, printing and information about the Geology of the Geopark and stencilling. Try out these techniques for yourself and see Valley Country Park and Worcestershire Archive & can be found at how fossils and rocks can be used as an inspiration for arts Archaeology Service (The Hive, Worcester). and crafts. Worksheets will be provided for visitors and • Wyre Forest Discovery Centre, children to take away for follow-up activities. • Severn Valley Country Park, • There is a fascinating building stones trail of Malvern Hills GeoCentre, Wyche Innovation Centre Walwyn • Bewdley Museum Worcester Cathedral. It can be purchased in the cathedral shop. Another one around Bewdley town is Road, Upper Colwall, Malvern, WR13 6PL • Malvern Hills GeoCentre available in Bewdley Museum shop. Saturday 29th July – Sunday 3rd September: Summer Nights • In Gloucestershire why not try these five self guided Explore the safari park into the evening and see the trails - May Hill, Huntley, Chase End Hill, Robinswood animals at night. Hill and Wainlode. Leaflets available from Times: Extended opening until 9:30pm with last admission www.glosgeotrust.org.uk or 01452 864438. 7pm at West Midland Safari Park, Spring Grove, Bewdley DY12 1LF Cost: Various www.wmsp.co.uk

Monday 31st July & Sat 5th August: Rock & Fossils Please note that those attending GeoFest Challenge Become a fossil hunter - find and identify hidden fossils. events do so at their own risk. On guided walk Bring in your own specimens for experts to identify. please ensure that you wear appropriate Times: 11am – 3pm at Bewdley Museum clothing, sturdy footwear and carry adequate Cost: Free, no booking required refreshments. Thank you. Where booking details are given, bookings are essential SVCP = Severn Valley Country Park If no cost is stated the event is free to attend GeoFest August 2017 GR = Grid Reference

Worcester Cathedral Behind the Scenes Upper Reaches Friday 11th August – Twelfth Night Thursday 24th August: Experimenting with Textile Art Tours Rain or Shine bring you Shakespeare’s cross-gartered and 15, 17, 19, 22, 24 & 26 August hilarious cross-dressing comedy… Twelfth Night. Hopeless A Family Crafts Day inspired by Geology including a textile See the Cathedral from a different perspective. Guided romantics, drunken knights, a pompous steward and fools art experimental craft day with demonstrations of fabric tour given by the Cathedral Archaeologist or a specialist galore abound in one of William Shakespeare’s most printing, stencilling and marbling, to show how Geology trained upper reaches guide through some of the celebrated comedies. can be used as inspiration for artwork. Samples from the Cathedral roof spaces. Access is via steep spiral staircase. Times: 7:30pm SVCP Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark Textiles Projects, Times: 1:30-2:30pm Costs: £13 adults, £11 concessions, £6 children. Please including the Textile Geology Map of the Geopark and the £5, book through Worcester Live 01905 611427. No under call 01746 781 192 to book for tickets. volcano wall hanging will be on display for inspiration. 16s Activities for children include: Stencilling and printing Friday 11th – Wednesday 30th August: Geopark Fossils fossil shapes on paper and fabric / Marbling with shaving Worcester Cathedral Library Tour Exhibition foam on paper and card / Making a card model of an 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 21, 22, 23 & 24 August Learn about different kinds of fossils through a colourful Icelandic volcano (from the British Geological Survey). Guided tours of the Cathedral library offering a chance to display of panels and fascinating physical examples. Times: 10:30am – 3:30pm at Cob House, Wichenford see the Worcester Anitphoner and other mediaeval Times: Throughout day at Worcester Cathedral Free. Please visit the website www.cobhouse.org for more manuscripts, other historic documents and rare books information on this and call 01886 888 517 to book into the form the Cathedral archives. Access is via a steep spiral Saturday 12th August: Awkward Earth Talk sessions so that we can secure you a place on this very staircase. How the Surveyor’s levelling practice and technology has popular event. Times: 12:15pm-1:15pm developed from Ancient Rome to present day – thereby £5, book through Worcester Live 01905 611427 giving rise to the Metric Measurement System en route. Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th August: Rock and Fossil Talk by Gerry Calderbank Challenge. Hands on History - Free children's activity drop in Bewdley Museum Become a rock and fossil hunter. sessions 11am-1pm Times: 11am to 3pm Bewdley Museum. 14, 17, 18, 22, 24 & 25 August Booking required, £5, 0845 6077819 Try your hand at designing your own stained glass window, create your own mediaeval illuminated Sun 13th August: Guided Walk – Blackstone to Stourport Saturday 2nd September: Building Stones of – manuscript, model your own clay gargoyle and have a go (6 miles) Guided Walk at brass rubbing. Cross-country to Staffs. & Worcs. Canal, then Stourport, Meet at Gloucester Cathedral to discover more about the Times: Thoughout the day, Worcester Cathedral Areley Kings and return. stones that built the Cathedral Oragnised by Woolhope Nauturalists' Field Club / Organised by Gloucestershire Geology Trust Friday 11th – Wednesday 30th August: Building the Transport in the Landscape 11am-1pm at Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester GL1 2LX Cathedral Exhibition Car park Blackstone SO796744 Free, book through 01452 864438 An exhibition of how the Cathedral was constructed from 10:30am-4:00pm the Middle Ages onwards. It will look at the various types No booking required of mediaeval craftsmen and stonemasons who appear in the Cathedral library's historic documents. Times: Throughout day in Worcester Cathedral Nave Monday 14th August: Cathedral Garden Tour The Geopark is sponsored by A tour around the Cathedral's garden through the eyes of their Gardener. Saturday 12th August: Stained Glass Tour Times: 1:30pm at Worcester Cathedral A tour around the Cathedral's more significant stained Cost: £5, book through Worcester Live 01905 611427 glass windows including the inspiring West Window depicting Creation, currently being conserved, and the window commemorating Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Charles Wednesday 23rd August: Fossils in the Stones Hastings. A tour around the stonework used to construct the Times: 2:30pm, Worcester Cathedral Cathedral discovering more about the fossils hidden Cost: £5, book through Worcester Live 01905 611427 within. Times: 2:30pm Cost: £5, book through Worcester Live 01905 611427

Friday 19 August: Face Painting For details refer to event on 2nd June