Where booking details are given, bookings are essential GeoFest May/June 2017 If no cost is stated the event is free to attend 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 Worcestershire 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, Bridgnorth 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 Malvern Hills 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 River Severn. 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 Severn Valley Railway (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 . 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 June/July 2017 GR = Grid Reference 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 Herefordshire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Shropshire 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.