Field Trips

Field Trip Secretary, Allan Wheeler, led a special programme of trips to celebrate our Golden Anniversary in 2023 including the re-enactment one of the Society's first field trips to the Mendips. (photo: Sand Bay, Weston-super-Mare)

Our Field Trips are open to all members and to visitors on request. Email: contact@hhgs.org.uk for more information.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
A small attendance fee (to cover administration costs/leaders’ expenses) is charged. Joining instructions and further information on request.
N.B. We try to share cars or use public transport as much as possible to reduce costs and damage to the environment. On field trips we take photos, leave only footprints and collect only loose specimens for educational or personal use where it is environmentally safe to do so.
Please Note:
Members attending field trips are reminded that they accept full personal responsibility for their own safety, and that of their personal possessions, whilst on the field trip; also that they are fit to undertake the trip. (If you have a mobility problem, cardiovascular disease or other serious infirmity you must declare it before joining in the field trip; however as most of our field trips are taken at a gentle pace, this is unlikely to stop you participating. Please consult one of the committee if you are at all concerned.)

Field Trip Highlights from 2022

Ruislip Woods and Pinn Meadows April 2 2022

Selsey and Boxgrove Priory April 16 2022

Wimbledon Common May 7 (Sat) 2022

Joint walk led by the London Geodiversity Partnership and London Natural History Society on Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath, looking at the geology and natural history. Meet 10.30 at the Windmill on Wimbledon Common. Bring packed lunch. The walk will finish at about 16.30.
Further details.

Chiltern Chalk June 29 (Wed) 2022
Leader: Haydon Bailey (Hertfordshire Geological Society).

Meet 11.00 at the College Lakes Nature Reserve. This former quarry displays ice-age frost heave (cryoturbation) disturbing the upper layers of the Chalk. We then move on to the Dunstable Downs to visit chalk localities there.

Fforest Fawr Geopark, Brecon Beacons National Park May 20-23 (Fri-Mon) 2022 Leader: Allan Wheeler

To visit localities in Palaeozoic rocks ranging from the Silurian through the Old Red Sandstone to the upper Carboniferous Coal Measures. Most localities will involve walking, including walks of up to 3 km which have several stops on the way. A Geo Festival is also on, which we also propose to visit. Accommodation has been booked. Hotels are few within the Geopark so some travel to sites will be involved.

2019 Field Trips

Date	Destination
30 March	Highcliffe and Barton-on-Sea (Eocene fossils, Pleistocene deposits)
17-20 May	Somerset Coast, based at Minehead (Devonian, Triassic and Jurassic, rocks)
13-16 Sept	Jurassic Coast of Sth Wales, based at Bridgend

2018 Field Trips

Date	Destination
16-23 April	Belgium
10 June	Sussex Coast
30 June	Maidstone Museum Fossil Collection
22 July	Hern Bay and Thanet Coast
29 Sept	Lost waterways and springs of Islington
12-15 OCt	Torbay Geopark
23 Nov	Behind the scenes at Oxford Museum of Natural History

2017 Field Trips

Date	Destination
18 March	Volcano Exhibition at Bodleian, Oxford
8 April	Pulhamite exhibition at Lowewood Museum in Hoddesdon, Hertforshire
13 May	Gilbert's Pit, Charlton
17 June	Building Stones of Canary Wharf
1 July	British Geological Survey Open Day at Keyworth
14-16 July	Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire
15-17 Sept	Dorset including Steve Etches Kimmeridge Fossils
7-8 Oct	Portishead, North Somerset

2016 Field Trips

Date	Destination
27 Feb	Ice Age Ilford exhibition
19 March	Eastbourne - Chalk of Beachy Head
17 April	Harwich and Wrabness, Essex
22 May	London Building Stones - Victoria Embankment
18 June	Brownsea Island
15-17 July	Charnwood Forest, Leicester Museum, Mountsorrel Heritage Centre
July/Aug	GERMANY Idar Oberstein - Centre for Gem Stones
21 Aug	Following the River Tyburn